EXTRA EDITION. NEAR EAST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 21 July 1923, Page 11

EXTRA EDITION. NEAR EAST.

FEARS OF THE FUTURE

HAS THE TURK GAINED THE.

MASTERY ?

BY CABIiE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHI Ksceived July 21, 10.30 a.m.

LONDON, July 20. The Times' special correspondent at Lausanne says that when the treaty iis signed the Turks will have the greatest «ause for enthusiasm. All the evidence obtainable confirms that the new Turks are but the old writ large and that the ■seaming £ra of enlightenment and brotherly love- in Turkey which it is the thing to officially hope for, will, from the foreigners' viWpoint, be at 4aest humiliating and at the worst lleody chaos. From the moment Turkey "was admitted .to negotiations on terms of equality with the European States some such result has been inevitable. No one will begrudge Ismet bis complacent declaration that the conference ■was v splendid tribute to that admission of equality, but when one listens to the tales from Angora and when one jsees photographs .of that verminous, Hsqualid, town and the little hall of the Grand National Assembly with ' its wooden galleries, paraffin lamps, the *Md world dipalidated -- village schoolroom, and when one realises what manner of men these are who dictated the tefrms to^ Europe, one stands astounded at th*e pass to which two happily extinct politicians of the civilised xaces should hnve succeeded,in bringing "the prestige o? the West.—Times..

_, LONDON. July 20. _ TLhose conversant with the situation an. Turkey are apprehensive of the -possibilities, especially in Constanti- ! mople, after the withdrawal of the oc- ' jqupying troops in view of the antiforeign feeling among the Turkish extremists, who regard ."the settlement-as a tnmumph over the foreismer. "While the position of "Western Europe may j i>e difficult, the seriousness for the I ■Greeks and Christian Turks who had the slightest relations with the occupation farces is evideneed^by the arrest «f Greeks and the report that the ITurks have decided to exnel hundreds «f Russians who worked for the Allied forces, also many native Christians — «cuter. J