TO ARMS IF NEED BE
TURKEY ON HER DIGNITY
GREEK PATRIARCH AFFAIR
NO FOREIGN INTERVENTION.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGHI.) (RSUTER'3 TELEdRAM.) (Received 6th February, II a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, sth Feb. Fethi Bey, Premier, "in a statement to the Assembly at Angora in regard to the expulsion of Uio Greek Patriarch, declared that Turkey 'did not desire to disturb the peace, but she was unable to admit foreign intervention in an affair concerning her sovereign rights and prerogatives.
our independence be attacked, _ he declared, "we shall have immediate recourse to measures to. safoguard our rights and honour, and, if necessary, shall employ force of arms, but the Government, while maintaining a vigilant attitude, hopes that the nervousness in Greece will'be replaced by calm.' 1 A secret session of the Assembly followed, at which the Commissar of Foreign Affairs made a statement.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 7
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