PESSIMISM

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 5 February 1923, Page 5

PESSIMISM

REGARDING TURKISH AGREEMENT. MORE WAR LIKELY. Per Press Association—Copyright Lausanne, Feb. 4. The British delegates leave tonight. There is a pessimistic feeling regarding the agreement. * Ismet -is obdurate. He said that there are several ponts that is is impossible for him to sign. The Allies pointed out that the eleventh hour concessions represented the last word of the Allies. Later the Turks refused to sign. The breakdown is due to the capitulations. The Turks agreed that the cemeteries in the Anzac zone shall not be disturbed. PARIS, Feb. 2. Hamid Bey and Mehmed Bey, two members of the Turkish delegation at Lausanne, prior to leaving Marseilles, expressed the belief that there would be a resumption of the Craeco-Turkish war.

But it would 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. and N.Z. Cable.

LAUSANNE, Feb. 3. M. Poincare has instructed M. Bompard to support the British and to tell Ismet that the Allies' concessions are final, and must be accepted. It is understood that the concessions include the abandonment of a demand for limitation of Turkish forces in Eastern Thrace, a reduction of war damages from £15,000,000, to £12,000,000, renunciations of judicial capitulations, but demanding the appointment of European judicial advisers in the reorganisation of the Turkish judiciary. The Mosul question is to be referred to arbitration not a plebiscite.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

LONDON, Feb. 2. A “Daily Express’’ message from Salonika states that Greece has 100,000 bayonets in the field. Troop trains are arriving at the front continually. The army has made a wonderful recovery from the recent debacle and the temper of the people is behind the army. The decision to exchange populations provided the most violent protests to Lausanne. PARIS, Feb. 2. Newspapers give prominence to telegrams from Constantinople, stating that the news that the proposed Lausanne Treaty is not in the nature of an ultimatum created a feeling of relief in Turkey.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON, Feb. 4. there is the keenest interest as to whether the Turks will sign the Treaty to-day. Uncertainty prevails in the best informed circles at Lausanne regarding Ismet’s intentions, or whether the latest concessions will influence the decision. Turkish rejection will not only embroil ,Britain and Turkey, but will shatter the Entente, in view of France’s readiness to negotiate a separate Treaty with Turkey, and French resentment at Britain not participating in the Ruhr adventure.—A. and N.Z. Cable.