THE NEAR EAST
TURKEY DESIRES PEACE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). CONSTANTINOPLE, February 18. The newspapers report Ismet as stating that Turkey in order to facilitate peace is willing to renounce her claim for two dreadnoughts ordered in Britain before the war and seized by the Admiralty in 1914, and /or six million Turkish pounds which the Allies seized from the banks in Vienna and Berlin at the 1918 armistice. Turkey intended to seek an agreement by means of direct negotiations in reference to the indemnity from Greece. TURKEY’S INDEPENDENCE. KEMAL WANTS ASSURANCE. CONSTANTINOPLE, February 18. Kemal, addressing the Economic Congress at Smyrna, attended by five hundred delegates, including representatives of the Soviet and Asiatic States, said that for centuries—not years —the Allies should understand that the ancient Ottoman Empire had ceased to exist. A new Turkish state had been created* full of energy. Turkey’s absolute independence must be assured recognition. Kemal is proceeding from Kicheir to meet Ismet. The Angora Assembly meets on Monday.
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Southland Times, Issue 19771, 20 February 1923, Page 5
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168THE NEAR EAST Southland Times, Issue 19771, 20 February 1923, Page 5
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