TURKISH PREPARATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18758, 11 January 1923, Page 5

TURKISH PREPARATIONS

MOSLEMS WARNED FOR SERVICE. FOREIGN SUBJECTS INCLUDED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright • ATHENS, January 9. | ' (Received Jan. 10, at 7.20 p.m.) j A Kemaliat proclamation, issued at ! Adriauople, calls on all Mussulmans between the ages of 20 and 48 to prepare to serve in the army. Foreign subjects must pay from 300 to 300 Turkish pounds to gain exemption.—A. and N.Z. Cable. FLEETS AT CONSTANTINOPLE. MALTA, January 9. The warship Ajax, after landing the ex- i Sultan of Turkey, will proceed to Con- i atantinoplc. Excepting H.M.S. Marl- 1 borough, which is undergoing a short relit j hero, ami the Emperor of India, the whole i of the Mediterranean battleship fleet, to- i gether with the Malava and the Revenge i from the Atlantic fleet, will be concentrated in Turkish waters.—Reuter. LAUSANNE CONFERENCE. TURKS DRAFTING A TREATV. PARIS, January 9. The Petit Parisian's Hausanne correspondent states that the Turks arc drafting a counter treaty, which will be handed to the Allies after they have completed theirs. Since the failure of the Paris Conference the Turks have been considering the desirableness of making separate treaties with the States represented at the conference.—A. and N.Z. Cable.