BRAWL IN CHURCH.
I GREEK PRIEST ATTACKED. BRITISH INTERVENTION. LONDON, June 10. A brawl occurred in the Greek Church at Galata, Constantinople, during the reading of Patriarchal sentence of excommunication on Damianos and other hooligan aggressors of the 'Patriarch. British police arrested Damianos, who struck the interpreter, but the Turkish police removed him from the custody of the British. General Harington lias demanded his surrender to the British. ! A later message says that the Turkish police were passive spectators of the attack on the Greek priest, who was saved from the hooligans by the intervention of British policemen. The latter I had been sent to the church with an inIterprcter to ensure order. I The interpreter was wearing a ! British uniform when he was etruck jby Damianos.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 23 June 1923, Page 7
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