GRAVES ON GALLIPOLI.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16795, 20 July 1920, Page 3

GRAVES ON GALLIPOLI.

PEACE TREATY PROVISION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 19. The sacred ground on Gallipoli, where the deqd of the Allied forces lie buried is, according to the Peace Treaty with Turkey, to bo transferred to the Allied Governments by the Turk. The Prime Minister made available today the following extract from the treaty with Turkey; “TheTurl ish Government shall transfer to the British, French and Italian Government respectively, full and exclusive rights of ownership over land within the boundaries of Turkey as fixed, by the present treaty in which are situated the graves of their soldiers and sailors who fell in action or died from wounds, accident, or disease, as well as over land required for laying out cemeteries or erecting memorials to these soldiers and sailors, or providing means of access to such cemeteries or memorials.”