ARMS FOR TURKEY
PROPOSED BRITISH SALE RIFLES AND AMMUNITION ( CHAMBERLAIN CRITICISED. (United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cablo Assn.) LONDON, 2nd August. Tho "Daily Chronicle" protests against Britain, through a Birmingham firm, offering to sell to Turkey 100,000 unused rifles and bay- : onets of the 1914 pattern, and 100 : million cartridges. This the j "Chronicle" says, is being done ; with Sir Austen Chamberlain's ap- ( proval. The offer has not yet been accepted, but it has not been with- ' drawn. : It is true, sa-ys the paper, that the ; offer does not infringe tho letter of the Covenant of the League of Nations, ; but it is a deplorable departure on the part of Britain, who has always de- ' clined to sell modern military material, except for breaking-up purposes. Other ; States have sold armaments for the purpose of. bolstering up ententes and alliances, but Britain's rule of abstention has been an influence for world peace. The sale of arms'to Turkey must cause alarm in Greece, Bulgaria, and Irak. The price asked is £.950,000, for payment in advance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 29, 3 August 1926, Page 7
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173ARMS FOR TURKEY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 29, 3 August 1926, Page 7
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