PEACE WITH TURKEY
LAUSANNE TREATY SIGNED. REJOICINGS IN CONSTANTINOPLE!
(Per Press Association, Copyright)! LAUSANNE, July 24. The Peace Treaty with Turkey will’ be signed to-day. The President of Switzerland, Dr). Charles Scheurer, will preside at the ceremony. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 24'.. The week’s peace celebrations begin in the city to-day. The streets are beflagged and the mosques illuminated, and torchlight processions will be held to-night. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, July 24. Returning from a. call on the Turkish Military Governor, General Harrington said he trusted the new peace would be long and lasting, and concluded by saying: “We leave behind on Turkish soil the • bodies of many soldiers of Britain and her Dominions, who gave their lives in fair fight. We leave them in confidence that you, inkeeping with your old traditions, will ever respect their memory.”
MR LLOYD GEORGE’S COMMENT. LONDON, July 24. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at a private dinner of National Liberals, said the Government came into office upon a policy of greater friendship to France, and the sequel was a broken, or at least impaired, Entente, and the most humiliating peace, that with Turkey, this country had ever signed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 9876, 25 July 1923, Page 5
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