TURKISH ATTITUDE TO PEACE CONFERENCE.

Grey River Argus, 14 October 1922, Page 5

TURKISH ATTITUDE TO PEACE CONFERENCE.

WANT ABSOLUTE INDEPENDENCE GUARANTEED.

ECE NOW WILLING TO ACCEPT SETTLEMENT

NANSEN TO INTERCEDE FOR THE REFUGEES. (Received October 13. 7.50 p.m.) LONDON, October 13. The “Morning Post’s' - Constantinople correspondent forecasts that Turkey will regard the Peace Conference, not as one following on their late defeat in the world war, but as one after their own successful war of liberation. Thus they will approach the Conference with the intention of establishing Turkey as a fully independent nation, on an equal basis with the. other nations, and quite unhampered by the “Capitulations’’ and any other special restrictions. Turkey will probably accompany its demand with sword brandishing (says the correspondent) as it did at Mudania Conference. lienee arises the Turkish desire that the Conference should meet on the Kemalists’ territory. PARIS, October 12. It is authoritatively stated that the Greek Government’s authorisation for the signature of the Mudania Protocol only reached General Magarakis after the Mudania Conference had dispersed. The Greek Government has intimated a willingness to ratify the agreement within three days. GENEVA, October 11. Dr Nansen, as the League of Nations’ Refugee Commissioner, meets Kemal Pasha within a few days to discuss the whole question of the refugees from Asia Minor. Dr Nansen subsequently confers with the Greek Government. CONSTANTINOPLE, October 12. The newspaper “Vakit” describes the Mudania agreement as being not only an armistice, but a peace preliminary, which has satisfied most of the Turkish aspirations bloodlessly. The paper hopes that the same goodwill will be shown at the Peace Conference.

TURKS JUBILANT AND GREEKS RESIGNED.

HOW AGREEMENT IS RECEIVED IN THE EAST. (Reuter) CONSTANTINOPLE, October 12. The Turkish quarters of the city are beflagged, most of the inhabitants welcoming the agreement, some if only because a rupture with Britain is avoided.

The Turkish forces have withdrawn from Ghebzeh, but there is still no backward move from Chanak. ATHENS, October 12. The news of the signature of the agreement is received here with resignation as an unavoidable evil.