TURKS AND THE TREATY

Evening Star, Issue 17379, 15 June 1920, Page 4

TURKS AND THE TREATY

FOUR mRECONCILABLES HANGED.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 14. Four conspirators were court martialled for plotting against the Grand Vizier, and were hanged in the public square. They spent their last few moments in denouncing the Turkish Government and proclaiming their devotion to the Committee of Union and Progress. Their bodies remained until the British authorities ordered their removal. The Grand Vizier has sailed for Paris. CONSTANTINOPLE. June 14. The Grand Vizier has 'eft for Paris to present Turkey's Teply to the Peace Treaty and endeavor to obtain an oral hearing as regards its terms. It is understood that the Turkish reply protests- ag-inst clauses dealing with Thrace and Smyrna, the attack on Turkish suzerainty by the internaticnaii&ation of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, and the clauses granting the rights of capitulation to States which thev enjoyed before the war. _ Travellers from Brusa say that the Nationalists are now masters of the whole of Anatolia, except Ismia, and are terrorising the population in districts which supported the Government troops. General Sulieman Chefik Pasha, commanding the Anti-Nationalist fcrces, -has been recalled to Constantinople, on the ground that he failed in his duty, also to account for a sum missing from the secret fund entrusted to him.