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Tuesday, 30 August 2016

British squadron called back from Turkish waters according to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf dated 5 November 1922

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.