THE NEAR EAST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18802, 3 March 1923, Page 7

THE NEAR EAST

KEMAL’S PEACE . TERMS. A CROMWELLIAN POLICY. CONCENTRATION' OF TROOPS. Pnu Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 1. The Daily Express’s Constantinople correspondent says: “It is that Mo stop ha Kemal will adopt a Cromwellian policy if the Angora Assembly continues to reject his final terms of peace. He has concentrated large bodies of troops at Eski-shehr with a view to such an eventuality.’’—A. and N.Z. Cable. SITUATION AT ANGORA. A CORRESPONDENT’S IMPRESSIONS. LONDON, March 1-. (Received March 2, at 7.15 p.m.) Mr Ward Price, the Daily Mail's Angora correspondent, summing up his impressions after conversations, cays; “Many leading Turks, while they sincerely want to live in peace with Great Britain, believe they have been deceived so often in the past that they would rather start a hopeless war than accept a peace which does not satisfy their idea of national independence. This is the attitude of the whole of the Government and Parliament. The Prime Minister, Hauf Boy, in an interview, charged Britain with breaking the Mudros Convention. He said he regarded the financial clause of the treaty as, an Allied attempt to continue financial control which would never be tolerated.” — Reuter.