TERMS FOR TURKEY

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11436, 5 February 1923, Page 5

TERMS FOR TURKEY

ALLIES’ CONCESSIONS FINAL. FRANCE SUPPORTS BRITAIN. Reuter's Telegram. (Received February 4, 10.5 p.m.) •LAUSANNE, February 3. M. Poincare instructed M. Bompard to support the British, and tell Ismet Pasha that the Allied concessions are final, and must be accepted. It’ is understood the concessions include the abandonment of the demand for the limitation of the Turkish forces in East Thrace, the reduction of war damages from £15,000,000 to £12,000,000, and the renunciation of judicial capitulaions, but demanding the appointment of European judicial advisers in the reorganisation of the Turkish judiciary, and the reference of the. Mosul question to arbitration, not a plebiscite. END OF ENTENTE IF TREATY 18 REJECTED. Australian and- N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 5, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, February 4. There is the keenest interest as to whether the Turks will sign the Treaty to-day. Uncertainty. prevails in the best informed circles at Lausanne regarding Ismet's intentions, and latest concessions will influence the decision. The Turkish rejection will not only embroil Britain and Turkey, hut will shatter the Entente, . owing to France's readiness to negotiate a separate treaty with Turkey, and French resentment at Britain’s non-participation in the Ruhr adventure. TURKS RELIEVED BY FRENCH ASSURANCE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Aiwclattoa. LONDON, February 2. The newspapers give prominence to telegrams from Constantinople stating that the news that the proposed Lausanne Treaty is not an ultimatum has created a feeling of relief in Turkey.

TURKS AND GREEKS RENEWAL OF WAR UNLIKELY. ALLIED TROOPS NEEDED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ' (Received Februarv 4, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, February 2. Hamid Bey and Melvmed Bey. two members of the Turkish delegation at Lausanne, prior to leaving Marseilles, expressed the belief that there would he no resumption of the Graeco-Turkish war, hut it would be prudent to draft Allied troops into Thrace to avoid any possible encounter. They hoped the questions of Mosul and Gallipoli would he settled by plebiscite.