TURKEY SCORES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18822, 12 July 1923, Page 5

TURKEY SCORES

DETAILS OF THE PEACE TREAT! TURKS RECOVER MOST OF WAR LOSSES

Details of the treaty reached at the Lausanne Conference show that the Turks have not haggled in vain. Providing the treaty be ratified, Turkey gets back Constantinople, Chanak, and Gallipoli; is freed of two-thirds of her external debt; has her fleet, such as it is, restored; is at liberty to raise armed forces to any extent desired; end is relieved from the bonds of capitulations. The Allies have gone to the limits of generosity to secure peace in the Near East.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. LAUSANNE, July 10. Luder the agreement, Constantinople, Chanak and Gallipoli will be evacuated six weeks after the ratification of the treaty by the - rtive Parliaments. Turkey recognises the post-war frontiers. Capitulations are to be abolished, and minorities will be treated on the basis which Poland and Czecho-Slovakia adopted, any dispute to be referred to the League of Nations. Except those resident in Turkey before 1921, foreigners will be amenable to Turkish law. Britain is to keep the two ships ordered by Turkey before the war, md the Allies share in the gold deposits which were at Berlin and Vienna.

_ T LONDON, July 10. Ihe Lausanne correspondent of the Daily Express says that Ismet has every reason for cheerfulness. The Allies have 'gone to the limits of generosity iu order to secure peace in the Near East. The treaty frees Turkey of two-thirds of her external debt; indeed it is possible Jugo Slavia may refuse to sign the treaty owing to the proportion of Ottoman debt with which she is saddled. The treaty places no limit on Turkey’s armed forces, and restores her fleet, including the Goeben, though the Allied' experts believe the ships’ are merely scrap iron. The humiliating regime of capitulations is ended and turkey remains a sovereign power with a reduced but homogeneous Empire able to enter the League of Nations. *! le Ch . ester g rou P (Americans) abandon the concession whieh 1 urkey has given them, French and British companies enjoying nrewar rights will secure the options. r