The Foreign Office published last Saturday the correspondence with the
French Government about the Angora agreement concluded by M. .Franklin-Bouillon with --Mustaphs, Kemal. Lord Curzon, on November 5th last, expressed his .surprise and dismay at firiding.that France had made a separate peace with the Turkish Nationalists, that she had not insisted on safeguards for the Christian minority in Cilicia, and that .she was handing back to Turkey "a, large and fertile extent of territory "—in Northern Syria--" which had been concpeeead nom Tnrkey.by British forces," and was held by.France under a mandate. _.Lord Curzon observed that the Turks would thus be able to use the Baghdad Railway for transporting troops to threaten the Mesopotamian frontier. He asked for a disavowal of :the alleged secret-promises of:Turkish concessions to France.
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