TURKEY’S TERMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 12 July 1923, Page 7

TURKEY’S TERMS.

Essence of New Treaty. FAVOURABLE TO SUBLIME PORTE BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT LAUSANNE, July 10. Under the agreement Constantinople Clianak and Gallipoli will be evacuated six weeks alter ratification of the Treaty by the respective countries. Turkey recognises the 'post-war frontiers. Capitulations aro to be abolished. Minorities will be treated on the basis which Poland and Czecho-Siovakia adopted. Any dispute will bo referred to the League of Nations. Except those resident in Turkey before 1921, foreigners will be amenable to Turkish law. Britain will keep the two ship* ordered by Turkey before the war, and the Allies will share the gold deposits which were at Berlin and Vienna.

The Lausanne correspondent of the “Daily Express” says Ismet Pasha has every reason for cheerfulness. - The Allies have gone to the limits of generosity in order to secure peace in the Near East. The Treaty frees Turkey of two-thirds of her external debt, indeed, it is possible that Jugoslavia may refuse to,sign the Treaty owing to the proportion of the Ottoman debt wherewith she is saddled. The Treaty places no limit on Turkey’s armed forces. It has restored her fleet including the Goeben, though Allied experts believe the ships are merely scrap iron. The humiliating regime cf capitulations is ended. Turkey remains the sovereign Power, with a reduced but homogeneous empire, able to enter the League of Nations. If the Chester group abandon the concession which Turkey has given them, French and British companies enjoying pre-war rights, will secure options.