TURKEY AND PEACE.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15322, 24 August 1923, Page 5

TURKEY AND PEACE.

LAUSANNE'TREATY. RATIFICATION DEBATE. DISSATISFIED MEMBERS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 22. The debate on the ratification of the Lausanne Treaty has opened in the Turkish National Assembly at Angora. There is considerable criticism in spite of general approval 'of the treaty. A Thracian deputy said that the treaty prepared a dangerous future for other generations, and perhaps the present generation. Turkey had not obtained even her IQI4 frontiers. The future of Adrianople was very hazardous. Western statesmen, by the situation which they had created in Thrace had constituted a pretext for quarrels between Turkey and Bulgaria and Greece.

The main feature of the debate was the hostility expressed towards France. LONDON, August 22. The Prime Minister, Mr Stanley Baldwin, in a written answer to a question in the House of Commons, admitted that sums due from Turkey under the Lausanne Treaty were only sufficient to pay a percentage of claims of British nationals. The Government strongly believed that it was futile to obtain from Turkey promises of the payment of large sums which could not be honoured. Experience with Austria and Germany showed conclusively that a bird in the hand whs worth any number in the bush. Colonel Harold Wood, who served as intelligence officer with the Anzac Corps in 1915, and was general staff officer at the Dardanelles, has been appointed by the Department of Overseas Trade Commercial Secretary in Turkey.