TURKEY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 20 July 1920, Page 5

TURKEY

•GRAND VIZIER DESIRES PEACE. DISORDER IN ANATOLIA. BY CABLE-PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Times.) CONSTANTINOPLE, July 18. The Grand Vizier, in an interview, stated that the Nationalists' attack on Jsmid ruined the hopes for a modification of the treaty. He advises signature without waiting for the meeting of the Grown Council, as delay is only making the position worse. British cavalry are engaged in suppressing marauding bands near the city, together with Indian troops. The suppression of similar outbreaks on the Black Sea coast make it abundantly clear that the Nationalist forces are disintegrated and comprise degenerate bands of mercenaries- and brigands, chiefly actuated by the desire to loot.

Disorders in Anatolia are reported. The massacre of Greek notables emphasises the brigandish nature of the Nationalist troops. A Greek warship has arrived at Smyrna.