WILL THEY SIGH?

Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1923, Page 5

WILL THEY SIGH?

TREATY WITH TURKEY. THE CRITICAL STAGE. UNCERTAINTY PREVAILS. DANGERS IN FAILURE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received Feb. 5, 1225 a.m. 9 London, Feb. 4. There is the keenest interest whether ho Turks will sign the treaty to-day. Uncertainty prevail* in best informed ircles at Lausanne regarding Ismet's mentions, or whether the latest convisions will influence the decision. Turkish rejection of the treaty will ot only embroil Britain and Turkey, ait will shatter the Entente, in view f France’s readiness to negotiate a eparate treaty with Turkey, and 'ranch resentment at Britain not parici paring in the Ruhr adventure. — kUs.-N.Z. Cable Association. Received Feb. 4, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Feb. 2. The newspapers give prominence to telefre.ma from Constantinople stat : ng that the j?ws that the proposed Lausanne Treaty « not in the nature of an ultimatum has treated a feeling of relief in Turkey. THE CONCESSIONS FINAL. SOME DEMANDS ABANDONED. FRANCE SUPPORTS BRITAIN. Received Feb. 4, 11.5 p.m. Lausanne, Feb. 3. M' Poincare has instructed M. Bompard to support the British and sell Ismet that the Allied concessions ire final and must be accepted. It is understood the concessions indude the abandonment of the demand for a limitation of th? Turkish forces n East Thrace, a reduction of t v* war *eparation fron| £15.000,000 to £12,000.XM), and renunciation of the judicial capitulation*, but demanding the appointment of Eurjopean judicial advisers In the re-organisation of the Turkish judiciary. The Mosul question is referred to arbitration and not to a plebiscite. GREECE AND TURKEY. RESUMPTION OF WAR LIKELY.

Received Feb. 4. 5.5 p.m. Paris, Feb. 2. Hamid Bey and Mehmed Bey, two member* of the Turkish delegation at Lausanne, prior tn leaving Marseilles, expressed the belief that there would bp a resumption of the Graw-o Turkish war, but it wonld be prudent to draft Allied troops into Thrace to avoid any possible encounter. They hoped the questions of Mosul and Gallipoli would be settled by a plebiscite. —A:h.-N Z. Cable Association.