"ALL IS GONE."

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15314, 15 August 1923, Page 5

"ALL IS GONE."

LAUSANNE TREATY.

LORD BIRKENHEAD APPALLED,

FRUITS OF VICTORY LOST,

Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn, Received August 15, 1.30 p.m. LONDON, August 14

Lord Birkenhead, writing to a newspaper after a close study of the Lausanne treaty, says: "I. use moderate language when I say I am appalled by it. There has been no such complete surrender of British interests since Majuba Hill. Never in the history of this country has a defeated enemy wrested such terms from-a conqueror. Everything for which wc fought is surrendered. The late Coalition Government, which stood, and would have stood, at Chanak for all our victory meant, was disparaged as a Government of war makers. It is certainly true we should have run the risk of a local war, which would jiave lasted one day only, for such was -our a«cumulated resources on the spot. Bather that than to have surrendered the whole fruits of a glorious victory. To-day all is gone. Brilish merchants and British insurance companies are flying from Constantinople. The capitulations have been abandoned, and the freedom of the Straits depends on the plighted word of the Turks. Lord Birkenhead added that if Parliament had been silting he would have addressed his observation to the House of Lords.