FATE OF TURKEYS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14009, 13 March 1920, Page 6

FATE OF TURKEYS.

DISCIPLINARY OCCUPATION OF CONSTANTINOPLE. l'Bt EIICTKIC TEI,BUBJLPH—CoPTKiOHT. Pkb Press Association tAns. and N.Z. Cable Asbn.i Received March 12, at 2.40 p.m. LONDON, March 10. ' The -Turkish outlook is grave, The wide area of the affected regions presents a military problem of consideraole magnitude, and the presence of Admiral Beafcty and"the Secretary of War at "Wednesday's meeting indicates the importance the Supreme Council* attaches to the issue, which is not confined to Constantinople. The Council considered not only .military .measures for protection of the Armenians, hut the contingency of combined operations by the Turkish national forces with a section of the Syrian Arabs. Received March 12, at 9.35 p.m. LONDON, March 11. The Supreme Council met yesterday and issued a communique announcing that it had considered the measures that were being fcjken to ensure the protection of the Armenians and other minorities in Turkey. It>_ is significant that. Mr Churchill,"'- Mr. Long, Lord Beatty, General'Thwaites, and M. Venizelos attended. It is stated that the Council ordered the. disciplinary occupation of Constantinople, as weli as a number of strategic points-in Asiatic and European Turkey forthwith. wJiile America has been urged<to participate in the measures for the protection of the Armenians. The Supreme Council is stated to be also considering military measures for providing against the possibility of active'eo-operation between the Turkish Nationalist forces and sections of the Arabs in Syria.. . . Official circles are of opinion that the Allied forces, with the troops which Greece is believed to be ready to furnish, give assurance to the Allies of a militarv superiority sufficient for any emergencv in the immediate future, but the is anxious, owing to the extent of the regions which the crisis may effect. General- d'Esperey is due at Constantinople to-day to re-assume command of fclw Allied armies.