TURKISH TREATY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 253, 20 July 1920, Page 5

TURKISH TREATY

! ALLIES .REFUSE TO MODIFY MAIN ... ' CLAUSES MEASURES TO PREVENT ANOTHER BETRAYAL TURKS EJECTION FROM EUROPE POSSIBLE By Telegraph-Press Aeßociatioa-CopyrlKht London, July 17. The Allied reply to the Turkish Note ia reference to the Turkish Treaty declines to modify the clauses relating to Thrace, Smyrna, the Syrian frontier, or Armenia. Regarding the regime at the Straits, the reply says emphatically that there can 'be no question as to the necessity of taking effective measures to prevent another betrayal of the, cause of civilisation by a Turkish Government; but the Allies have decided to grant; the Turkish request, as a Riparian Power, for the right to appoint a delegate on the Straits Commission. They will also make a number of minor concessions, such as the withdrawal of tho condition by which Turkey ceded to tho Allies all Turkish steamships of 1600 tons and upwards. , Tho reply emphasises that Turkeys intervention in the war prolonged the conflict by at least two years, causing the loss to tho Allies of several millions of lives and thousands ot millions of pounds. It recoils the Turkish atrocities m Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Armenia, as showing the necessity of ending tho empire of the Turks over other nations.. ' The reply declares that if Turkey refuses to sign Peace, or, still more, if she is unable to re-establish authority in Anatolia, (he Allies may bo driven to reconsider the arrangement in referenco to Constantinople, regarding which the Allies had grave doubts, by ejecting tho Turks from Europe once and for all. Tho Turks are given till July 2* to sign.—Router.

FURTHER GREEK SUCCESSES SERIOUS SITUATION IN TRANSCAUCASIA. Constantinople, July 16. The Greek successes continue on the south coast of the Sea of Marmora. The Grcoks crossed the Sucurlu River, where two thousand Turks surrendered. A serious situation has arisen in Trans-Caucasia, owing to the Bolsheviks ordering tho withdrawal cf the Armenian troops from the Karabagh, /.angexur, and Nakhicevan districts, with the object of creating a friendly independent State on the Turkish border, through which they can secure direct contact with the Turkish Nationalists. The Armenian Government refused to vithdreiw the troops.—"The Times." GRAND VIZIER "ADVISES SIGNING OF TREATY DISINTEGRATED NATIONALIST FORCES TURN BRIGANDS. 18. The Grand Vizier, in an interview, fitotod that the Nationalists' attack at Ismid had ruined Turkey's hopes of securing a. modification of the Treaty, owl paid he advised the signature of the Treaty without waiting for a meeting of the Crown Council, as delay was only making the position worse. British cavalry ore engaged in suppressing marauding bands Jirar the city, together with Indian troops. The suppression of similar outbreaks on the Black Sea coast make it abundantly clear that the Nationalist forces lia.ve disintegrated into degenerate hands of mercenaries and brigands, chiefly interested in loot. The disorders '" Anatolia, and the reported massacre cf Greek notables, emphasise the brignndlike nature of the Nationalist troops. A Greek warship has arrived «t Smyrna — "Tho Times." •