COUNTER-PROPOSALS FROM ANGORA PREDICTED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18206, 27 September 1922, Page 9

COUNTER-PROPOSALS FROM ANGORA PREDICTED.

CESSATION OF ALLIED MILITARY MOVEMENTS. GREEK EXCESSES IN THRACE REPORTED. 1L *nd N.Z- " (iteceiTed 11.55 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 25. The Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Express predicts that though the Angora Government is dissatisfied with the details, they will accept the Allied Xote as a basis for further negotiations. The Turkish objections include the demilitarisation of tha shores of the Sea of Marmora, which, it is alleged, will hinder the protection of Constantinople. The Turkish Nationalists are unlikely to prolong the negotiations, because they suspect that the Allies wish to gain time to increase reinforcements. They will probably make a counter proposal for an immediate preliminary meeting* subject to the Allies agreeing to suspend military movements. The Turks, while not admitting any obligation to cease their forward movement, will probably do so for a couple of days, as a sign of goodwill. Uneasiness is increasing in Constantinople, adds the correspondent, and it is feared that the Greeks will organise demonstrations. British military families are embarking to-day. The Morning Post's Constantinople correspondent states that the Greek Army in Thrace is thoroughly disorganised. It is committing serious atrocities, looting; property, burning and destroying villages, ■tod apparently trying to exterminate the Moslem population.