LAUSANNE TREATY

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 4852, 30 July 1923, Page 2

LAUSANNE TREATY

PRINCE AGA KHAN’S MESSAGE TO ISLAM. PRAISES THE TERMS. (By Electric Cable.—Copyright). tAust. and N-Z. Cable Association). (Received July 30, 11.15 a.m.) London, July zb. Prince Agu Klian telegraphed iiom Lausanne a manifesto to all Islam. Lie states it is the first treaty signed on behalf of the Mohammedan nation on absolutely equal terms with the Great Western Powers, ana reveals the earnest desire of Britain and France to bo friends with turkey and all Islam. Under » . Lie Tieaty Turkey will become an metependent, compact, national State, it signifies that past quarrels and fltadreds of years of strife have ended. He wanted to tell ail Moslems in India and every part of the world that Turkey sincerely desired the friendship of Britain, and would welcome a renewal of commerce. Business would flourish as it never could | ir. tiie old days. “We do not want to make more bad blood. Let us leave politics alone and turn ourselves to the task of building a new 1 Turkey which will assuredly become tiie brightest star of Islam.” 1 Under the terms of the Lausanne Treaty Turkey was bound io con--1 cede in perpetuity the full and en- ' tire use of land forming the sites of ’> Allied cemeteries and oilier commcm- " orative monuments. The Anzac arc, winch extends two and a quarter ‘ miles, will be conceded as one vast cemetery, and no rent, tax, or otner 3 imposition null be placed on the - lands. Access will be free at ydl ' times to tiie representatives of Allied Government sand visitors. Greece, with which Britain lias a separate v.*ar graves agreement, has granted in perpetuity the sites of British cemeteries in Greece, also an former Turkish territory, which pass- - os W Ooece. , . 3 Tiie- War Graves Commission "ns the solo right of concentrating tho dead should concentration be necessary. So far as tiie peninsula is concerned, the construction of Bria tisli cemeteries is practically comf plete, therefore no further removals are- contemplated.