An item dated Malta 4th
reported that a British squadron (1) of one battleship, a light cruiser and the
2nd flotilla destroyers were called back again from Constantinople, Turkey.(2)
Notes
1. The battleship HMS Ajax and
the light cruiser HMS Concord?
2. At that moment was
the Turkish War of Independence between 19 May 1919-11 October 1922 although
there was an armistice still unfinished. Not earlier as on 24 July 1923 was
with the Treaty of Lausanne peace. Their opponents of the Ottoman Sultanate
were Armenia, Greece, England, Italy and France. The locations of the acts were
was Anatolia, North Mesopotamia and Thrace.