FEELS TRANQUIL BECAUSE RUSSIA IS HER FRIEND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17729, 26 December 1925, Page 2

FEELS TRANQUIL BECAUSE RUSSIA IS HER FRIEND.

TURKEY TELLS WHAT NEW TREATY MEANS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Co-pyright. “ Times ” Service. (Received December 26, 1 p.m.) LONDON, December 25. The Constantinople correspondent of “ The Times ” says that the Turkish Press joyfully hails the Turco-Soviet Treaty, describing it as masterly retort to the League’s iniquitous Mosul decision. It is declared that Turkey has no aggressive designs, but the Treaty is merely the natural outcome of the Locarno Pact* which, it is contended, is really aimed at Eastern nations. Turkey, consequently, is justified at coming to an understanding with a Power whose interests are identical with her own. “ It is Turkey’s duty and pleasure to say that she feels tranquil now she has adopted the -precautionary measure rendered necessary by the gravity of the new situation,” declares a semiorficial statement, pointing out that those annoyed by the conclusion of the Treaty should seek the causes which brought the two countries together. The Berlin correspondent of “ The Times ” says that M. Tchitcherin, on departing for Moscow, declared that the Soviet Union was as determined as ever not to enter the League under any circumstances whatever. The League was mereh’ an instrument of capitalist machinations against weak countries. The Soviet would never surrender freedom of action to such an organisation.