THE TURKISH PEACE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9573, 26 July 1923, Page 5

THE TURKISH PEACE.

TACTFUL WORDS BY HARRINGTON. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 24. Returning from a call on the Turkish military governor. General Harrington said he trusted the new peace would be long and lasting, and concluded.- “We leave behind on Turkish soil the bodies of many soldiers of Britain and the Dominions who gave their lives in a fair fight. We leave them in confidence that'you, in keeping with old traditions, will ever respect their memory.”—Reuter.

THE LAST SCENE. SIGNING THE TREATY. (Received July 25, 5.5 p.m.) LAUSANNE. July 24, The ceremony of signing the Peace Treaty was of the simplest character. M. Scheurcr, the Swiss President, delivered a short speech, inviting the plenipotentiaries to place their signatures on the document. Isniet was the first to sign, with Sir IT. Rumbold next, and then the President of the Swiss Confederation, who was much moved. As, lie closed his address all the .delegates rose and shook hands. This was the final scene of the long-drawn-out conference.—A. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

WHAT. BRITISH FORCES COST IN CONSTANTINOPLE. TAXPAYER’S BILL. LONDON, July 16. The cost of the occupation of Constantinople since the armistice lias been £29,000,000, of which the army cost £22,500,000 and the navy £6,000,000, said Air Baldwin, the British Prime Alinister, in the House of Commons. As the greater part of the occupying forces would have been otherwise, employed elsewhere, these figures, lie added, did not represent the extra cost to the taxpayer, which was estimated at £13,500,000 in the case of the army and £2,500,000 in that oh thc navy. Such expenses were not recoverable from Turkey under the draft treaty now being concluded at 'Lausanne.