“NO MORE BAD BLOOD”

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9577, 31 July 1923, Page 5

“NO MORE BAD BLOOD”

AG A KHAN’S .MANIFESTO TO ISLAM. BUILDING A NEW TURKEY. FRIENDSHIP WITH BRITAIN SIN CERE I. Y DESIRED. (United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, July 29. Prince Aga Khan telegraphed from Lausanne a manifesto to all Islam. He states : ’’lt is the first treaty signed on behalf of a Alohanmiedan nation on absolutely equal terms with the great Western Powers and reveals the earnest desire of Britain and France to be friends of Turkov and all Islam. Under the treaty Turkey will become an independent, compact national State. It signifies that past quarrels and one hundred , years’ strife, have ended.” He wanted, he said, 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 li never could in the old days. ”4Ye do not want to make more had blood,” lie- said. "Let u:s leave politics alone and turn ourselves to the task of building a new Turkey, which will assuredly become the brightest star of Islam.” Under the terms of tiie. Lausanne treaty. Turkey was hound to concede in perpetuity full and entire u-e of land forming the sites of Allied comet i l ies and other commemorative monuments. The Anzac area, which extends to two and a quarter square miles, will he conceded as one vast cemetery. No tax, rent, or other imposition 'will he placed on the lit ll cl. Access will he free at all times, to representatives of Allied Governments ami visitors. Greece with which Great Britain has a separate war graves’ agi cement, has granted in perpetuity the sites of British cemeteries in Gieece, also former Turkish territory which passes to Greece. The War Graves Commission has the sole right of concentrating the dead, should concentration he necessary. So far as the peninsula is concerned. the cuustruetion of British remote -ies; is practically complete. J’lierefore no further removals are contemplated.— A. and N.Z.C.A.