SECOND EDITION. VICTORY LOST

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 85, 15 August 1923, Page 6

SECOND EDITION. VICTORY LOST

THE LAUSANNE TREATY. LORD BIRKENHEAD'S REGRET. Pwws Associatlon—Cbpyright, Ana- . '..traliaa-»»d *N.Z, Cable Associatioo. (Received 12.-15 p.m.) ..'."_, London, August 14. f; ...Lord Birkenhead, writing to the newspapers-after a close study of the Lausanne -Treaty, says:— "I use moderate language when . I say I am appalled by it. There has ■ been no such complete surrender • 'of .British interests since Majuha Hill. Never inthevhistoiy of this j IcQuntry has a defeated- enemy wrest.jjejd guch terms from the conqueror. • 'Everything for which we fought is •. .surrendered. The late Coalition .stood, and would have stood, at : Chanak, for all our victory meant, ■ : ,but it was disparaged as a Governm»nt of war-makers. It is certainly true that wet should have run the /...riak of a local war. which .would have lasted one day only, fo r such .were our accumulated' resources on Jtbe spot. - Bather, that than to /> have, surrendered the whole frmta of the glorious victory. To-day all is gone. British merchants and British insurance companies are ,! -flying from Constantinople. The capitulations: have been abandoned, and'the Freedom of the Straits devpends on the plighted word of the ; Turk." . / VLord Birkenhead adds that if •v:; ; Parllament had been Vetting;- N - />.would hate addressed his- observa-■sr:-.-itioiU to the 1 House of LctftlsV