TURKEY RESTORED.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2694, 12 July 1923, Page 5

TURKEY RESTORED.

A HOMOGENEOUS EMPIRE. LIBERAL TERMS UNDER NEW TREATY. GALLTTOLI TO BE EVACUATED. [By Electric Cable—Copyright]. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] LAUSANNE, .Tilly 10. , Under the Peaco Agreement, Constantinople, Chanak and Gallipoli will be evacuated six weeks after the ratification of the Treaty by the respective Parliaments. Turkey recognises the post-war frontiers. The Capitulations are abolished and minorities will be treated on the bas'ci Which Poland and Czeeho-Slovakia have adopted. Any dispute will be referred to the League of Nations. Except those who were resident in Turkey before 1921, foreigners will be amenable to Turkish law. Britain is to keep the two warships ordered by Turkey before the war (Erin and Aglncourt) and the Allies' 'share of the gold deposits which were at Berlin and Vienna. LIMIT OF GENEROSITY. TURKEY REMAINS SOVEREIGN POWER. LONDON. July 10. The Lausanne correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that Tsmet Pasha has every reason for cheerfulness The Allies have gone to the limits of generosity in order to secure peace in the Near East. The Treaty frees Turkey , from two-thirds of her external debt, [indeed it is possible that Jugo-Slavia i may refuse to sign the Treaty, owing :to the proportion of the Ottoman debt I with which she is saddled. The Treaty places no limit upon Turkey's armed forces and restores her fleet, including the Goeben, though the Allied experts believe that the ships are merely scrap-iron. The humiliating if grime of the Capitulations is ended. Turkey remains a sovereign Power, with a reduced but homogeneous Empire, able to enter the League of Nations. If the Chester group abandon the concession which Turkey has given them French and British companies enjoying pre-war rights will secure options.