TURKISH TREATY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXXI, Issue LXXXI, 14 May 1920, Page 5

TURKISH TREATY

SEVERITY OF PEACE TERMS.

CONSIDERABLE RESENTMENT IN

TURKEY.

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT

(Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn.)

LONDON, May 11

Subject to the provisions of the Treaty the parties agree to the maintenance of the Turkish sovereignty at Constantinople. A reservation has been made if Turkey fails to observe the provisions of the Treaty or supplementary treaties or the conventions and particulars regarding the protection of minorities, the Allies may modify the provisions. Turkey agrees to accept any dispositions made in this connection.

Navigation of the Straits, including the Dardanelles, Sea of Marmora.and the Bosphorus, will be open in future both in peace time and war time to all merchantmen, warships and aircraft without distinction. The commission controlling the Straits will be composed of one representative of each of the following: United States, British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, Bulgariaj Greece and Roumania. Representatives of the last named Powers have one vote each; the others hare

two votes. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 12. Although there is considerable resentment at the severity of the peace terms, the police maintain order in the crowded streets and there were no antiAllied demonstrations.

it is reported the Young Turks are engineering opposition to the Treaty in the hope of securing more favoxable terms.