OUTLINE OF NEAR EAST PEACE TERMS

Grey River Argus, 12 October 1922, Page 5

OUTLINE OF NEAR EAST PEACE TERMS

WEUTRAL ZONES RETAINED BY THE ALLIES. AN AGREEMENT SIGNED AT MUDANIA. An. agreement has been signed at Mudania. The Turks get Thrace, if they leave two neutral zones. British troops are being diverted from Turkey now. The British, political situation is electrical. Lloyd George is fighting back. A general election is expected. Irish Bishops denounce all rebels, and threaten the utmost ecclesiastical penalties on them. Ulster’s Premier says Ulster will vote itself out of the Free State at the first poll. Wool prices still rise. U.S.A. now favours a world economic conference. N.S.W. miners’ dispute is easier. A Canadian move is afoot to leave the League of Nations. British currency replaces marks now in Germany. The political candidates are on Page 8. Labour will contest Motueka. Owing to there being in Auckland several cases of influenza, some of them pneumonic, and an outbreak on the Chatham, the Mayor has wired Hon Parr, urging preventive measures. (Received October 11, 7,25 p.m.) LONDON, October 11. At Mudania an agreement has been reached, and signed. (Received October 11. 11.30 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE. October 11. The Mudania terms include the return of Thrace to Turkey, but this conditional on the immediate withdrawal of all the Angora Turk troops from the neutral zones in the Allied occupation. Mixed Commissions are to delimit new neutral zopes at Chanak and at Jsinid Peninsula.

BRITISH TROOPS DIVERTED FROM TURKEY.

(Received October 11, 1.1.25 p.m.) LONDON, October 11. The Braemar Castle, with one thousand members of the Air Force aboard, which was temporarily diverted to Constantinople, is now proceeding to Mesopotamia.