ANTI-GREEK OUTBURST.
A CONSTANTINOPLE RIOT.
ATTACK ON THE PATRIARCH.
POLICE LOOK ON,
(By Cable. —Prese Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.30 a.m.i CONSTANTINOPLE, .Tune 4. A hundred roughs invaded the palace ol the Greek patriarch.. Archbishop MeletiOF, crying: "Down with Meletios." They violently assaulted him while he was presiding over a pan-orthodox congress. Turkish police did not interfere, the officer declaring that he was only there to prevent bloodshed.
The Turks declare that the mob consisted of low-class Greeks, while the Greeks throw on the Turks the whole blame. French and Italian gendarmes arrived and expelled the mob.
Meletios, who is 70 years of age, had a terrible ordeal during the melee. He has since appealed to the Allied High Commissioners for protection.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 132, 5 June 1923, Page 5
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