INDIA AND THE TURKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 247, 18 October 1922, Page 5

INDIA AND THE TURKS.

SYMPATHY FOR KEMAL

OFFER OF AN AEROPLANE. (By Cilile, -Tress Association.—-Copyright.) ißeceived J p.ni.\ DELHT. October 17. Crowded meetings have been held in Calcutta eympathWing with the Turks, congratulating Kemal. and proposing to organise relief for dependents of Turkish soldiers who have been killed. Sympathisers in Delhi are proposing to' offer an aeroplane to Kemal.—(A. and X.Z.I

TOLD BY FRANCE. INNER HISTORY OF MUDANIA THE REAL PEACEMAKERS. PARIS. October 17. M. Henri Franklin-Bouillon, who was the French envoy to the Angora Government, speaking to 7."> pressmen representing ii score of nations, detailed the inner history of the Mudania Conference as a means of replying to Mr. Lloyd George's attacks upon Turkey.

He said thnt (he arrest of the Turkish march upon the Straits was not due to British reinforcements, but to the political sagacity of Mustanhn Kemal, who wished to .show Kurope his desire for peace am! his gratitude for concessions obtained by the intercession of France, which had oersuaded Britain to promise to restore Eastern Thrace to the Turks.

The British measure of force only hill dered the conclusion of the armistice.

For 4S hours the situation at Mudania was the gravest since IDI4. The victorious Turkish Army was within io miles of its capital. Yet it was asked not to advance further. For a while peace was menaced simply because the Turks were asked to abandon the railway station at Adrianople on the ground that it was on the other aide of the River Maritza. It was a touching moment when General Sir Charles Harington extended his hand across the table to Ismct Pasha and said: "We came as enemies; we part as friends.''

'"'I can imagine General Harington"s dietress," said M. Franklin-Bouillon, "when he reads Mr. Lloyd George's speech."— (A. and N.JS. Cable.l GIVEN A FREE HAND. HARINGTON AND THE CRISIS. LONDON. October 17 Mr. Martin Donohoe. the correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" at Constantinople, states that General Sir Chae. Harington, receiving newspapermen, emphatically denied the published rumour? of friction and discord between himself anil the British Cabinet in connect ion with the recent crisis. He said that he was a soldier purely and simply, and he regretted that his name had been unjustly coupled with political propaganda. Xo soldier in British history had received ?. greater measure of support from his Government. He was given a free hand, and the Government unhesitatingly backed him throughout.

General Harington stated that the evacuation of Thrace would be a difficult task. It was not made easier by unfounded reports of incendiary outrages by Greeks which ihe Turks announced, though Allied commissioners on the snot proved that the tales were untrue. The Greeks were behaving admirabiv thus far, and were implicitly obeying the instructions for peaceful evacuation. — (A. and X.Z. Cable.) SULTAN RETIRES TO HAREM.

FEAR OF THE NATIONALISTS. LONDON, October 17. A«.-ording to the "Daily Mail.*' diplomatic- reports from Constantinople state that, the Sultan, fearing rough treatment at the hands of tho Nationalist?, has retired permanently to the tender sanctuary of the Imperial harem. 'His Ministers dare not cross the forbidden feminine threshold, consequently it is only through the mediation of the lm.perial eunuchs that the high State dignitaries a s well ac lesser functionaries can communicate with their sovereign.— (United Service. )