PEACE WITH TURKEY
LAUSANNE TREATY SIGNED.
A SIMPLE CEREMONY, (Per Press Association, Copyright). LAUSANNE, July 24. The ceremony of signing the Peace Treaty ‘with Turkey was of the simplest character. Dr. Charles Scheurer, President of Switzerland, delivered a short speech inviting the plenipotentiaries to place their signatures on the documents. Ismet Pasha was the first to sign, Sir Horace Rumbold (Britain) was next, followed wy the representatives of the other Powers. When the President of the Swiss Confederation, who was much moved, had closed his address, all the delegates rose and shook hands. This was the final scene in the long drawn-out Conference.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 9877, 26 July 1923, Page 5
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