TURMOIL IN THE EAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1922, Page 5

TURMOIL IN THE EAST.

GENERAL’S SUGGESTED CAUSE. ECHO OF THE GREAT WAR By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. In the House to-day, Mr. R. A. Wright (Wellington asked if the cabled statement by General George Hurries was correct, that we could have in five days more captured the German army and had a military victory, and that we went as far as the politicians allowed us, and the armistice is responsible for the massacre at Smyrna. The Premier said this question was a most unusual one, and any answer to it can only be a matter of opinion and nothing more. Turkey was not dealt with in the Peace Treaty signed at Versailles in June, 1919, but in another treaty agreed to at Sevres about a vear later than the first. still later there was an agreement entered into at Angora between France and Turkey, which still further complicated matters. The result of them all was war between Greece and Turkey and the 'defeat of the Greeks, followed by the intervention of Britain and the crisis through which we are passing. “Many good authorities are of opinion that as a deterrent for the future the Allies should have dictated peace on German soil,” added Mr. Massey. “I believe their doing so would have had a good effect, but it is quite impossible to say definitely that any failure in this latter respect was responsible for the massacre at Smyrna.”