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‘TREATY OF PEACE WITH TURKEY, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS Signed at Lausanne on July 24, 1923, together with Agreements between Greece and Turkey signed on January 30, 1923, and Subsidiary Documents forming part of THE TURKISH PEACE SETTLEMENT.’ [‎124r] (252/260)

The record is made up of 1 volume (126 folios). It was created in 1923-1924. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Constantinople, Grand Cross of the Orders of Saints
Maurice ami Lazarus, and of the Crown of Italy;
M. Giulio Cesare Montagna, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary at Athens, Commander of the Order of
Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Grand Officer of the Crown
of Italy :
For Greece :
M. Eleftherios K. Veniselos, formerly President of the
Council of Ministers, Grand Cross of the Order of the
Saviour;
M. Demetrios Caclamanos, Minister Plenipotentiary at
London, Commander of the Order of the Saviour;
W ho, having produced their full powers, found in good and due
form, have agreed as follows:—
Single Article.
The Greek Government undertakes to pay to the nationals of the
other contracting Powers and to Turkish companies in which, on the
1st June, 1921, the interests of the latter were preponderant, in a pro
portion corresponding to those interests, the sums which are due to them
for the repayment of the value of goods requisitioned or seized by the
Greek armies or administrative authorities, the sums due for services
rendered to those armies and authorities which have not already
been paid, as well as those due as compensation for other losses and
damage suffered after the 1st June, 1921, by the said nationals and
companies, resulting from the acts of the Greek armies or adminis
trative authorities, other than loss and damage due to acts of war in
the zone of active military operations.
Failing an agreement between the parties concerned and the
Greek Government,the amounts due shall be determined by an arbitral
tribunal consisting of a representative of the Greek Government, of
a representative of the claimant, and of an umpire chosen by mutual
agreement, or, failing agreement, by the President of the Permanent
Court of International Justice at the Hague.
The payments referred to in the foregoing provisions shall be
effected by means of annuities spread over a period of forty years,
calculated with an interest of 5 per cent., or according to such other
mode of settlement as may be subsequently adopted by mutual
agreement.
It is understood that debts resulting from contracts concluded in
the occupied territory in Turkey by the Greek armies or administra
tive authorities between those armies or authorities, on the one part,
and the nationals of the other contracting parties, and Turkish
companies in which the interests of the latter were preponderant, on
the other part, shall be effected by the Greek Government according
to the provisions of those contracts.
The present convention shall be ratified ; each signatory Power
shall deposit its ratification in Paris at the same time as its ratitica-

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A printed copy of the Treaty of Peace with Turkey, commonly referred to as the Treaty of Lausanne. The treaty was signed on 24 July 1923 and formally ended the conflict between the Ottoman Empire and other nations (including Great Britain) that had begun at the onset of the First World War. The volume was printed and published by HM Stationery Office, London, 1923 (Treaty Series No. 16 (1923). Cmd. 1929). The treaty is printed in the French original and English translation.

The treaty is divided into seventeen sections (numbered I-XVII): I. Treaty of Peace; II. Straits Convention; III. Convention respecting the Thracian frontier; IV. Convention respecting conditions of Residence and Business and Jurisdiction; V. Commercial Convention; VI. Convention concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, signed at Lausanne January 30, 1923; VII. Agreement between Greece and Turkey respecting the reciprocal restitution of interned civilians and the exchange of prisoners of war, signed at Lausanne 23 January 1923; VIII. Declaration relating to the Amnesty; IX. Declaration relating to Muslim properties in Greece; X. Declaration relating to sanitary matters in Turkey; XI. Declaration relating to the administration of justice in Turkey; XII. Protocol relating to certain concessions granted in the Ottoman Empire; XIII. Protocol relating to the accession of Belgium and Portugal to certain provisions and instruments signed at Lausanne; XIV. Protocol relating to the evacuation of the Turkish territory occupied by the British, French and Italian forces; XV. Protocol relating to the Karagatch [Karaağaç] territory and the Islands of Imbros [Gökçeada] and Tenedos [Bozcaada]; XVI. Protocol relating to the Treaty concluded at Sèvres between the principal Allied Powers and Greece on August 10, 1920, concerning the protection of minorities in Greece, and the Treaty concluded on the same day between the same Powers relating to Thrace; XVII. Protocol relating to signature by the Serb-Croat-Slovene State.

The volume also includes copies of correspondence relating to the treaty, including letters exchanged between the High Commissioner to Constantinople, Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold, who signed the Treaty of Lausanne on behalf of the British Government, and the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ismet Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. [Mustafa İsmet İnönü]. A map of those parts of southeastern Europe affected by the treaty is also enclosed in the volume (f 126).

The volume is accompanied by a loose folio (f 128), entitled ‘NOTE ON THE TREATY OF PEACE (TURKEY) BILL, 1924.’, originally presented by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament. The note was printed and published by HM Stationery Office, London, in 1924.

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1 volume (126 folios)
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The volume’s contents are listed at the front of the volume (ff 2-3), and refer to the volume’s original pagination system.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 128, these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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‘TREATY OF PEACE WITH TURKEY, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS Signed at Lausanne on July 24, 1923, together with Agreements between Greece and Turkey signed on January 30, 1923, and Subsidiary Documents forming part of THE TURKISH PEACE SETTLEMENT.’ [‎124r] (252/260), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F112/280/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100066492369.0x000035> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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