NO MODIFICATIONS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 19 July 1920, Page 8

NO MODIFICATIONS

TURKS MUST SIGN BY JULY 27

BY CABLE—PBEB3 ASSOCIATION -COPYHIGHO!

• (Received July 19, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. The altered reply to the Turkish Peace Note with reference to the Turkish Treaty declines to modify the clauses relating to Thrace, Smyrna, and the Syrian frontier or Armenia. Regarding the regime in the Straits, the reply says that emphatically there can be no question as co necessity for taking effective measures to prevent another betrayal of the cause of civilisation by a Turkish Government, but the Allies decided to grant the Turkish request as a riparian Power for the right to appoint a delegate on the Straits Commission. They also ma^e a number of minor concessions, such as the withdrawal of the condition whereby Turkey ceded to the Allies all Turkish steamships of 1600 tons and upwards. The reply emphasises that Turkey's intervention in the war prolonged the conflict for at least two years, causing the loss to the Allies ■ of several millions of lives and £1,000,----000,000. It. recalls the Turkish atro- | cities in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Armenia as showing the necessity for ending the empire of the Turks over other i nations and declares that if Turkey I refuses to sign the Peace, or still ! more, if unable to re-establish authorj it-y in Anatolia, th e Allies may be I driven to recoasider the arrangement with reference to Constantinople, in regard to which the Allies had grave doubts, by ejecting the Turks from Europe once and for all. The Turks were given until July 27 to sign the Treaty.