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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 80, 5 April 1926, Page 7

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"TIMES" CORRESPONDENT

EXPLAINS

HOW HE CAME TO BE EXPELLED,

(United Press Association.—Copyright.)

(Published in The Times.) (Received sth April, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, 4th April.

Mr. Macartney, the "Times" correspondent at Constantinople, from which city ho was expelled at two hours' notice, telegraphing from Mitylene, says that the Angora authorities were indignant at his dispatches recording the closing of the English High School.

Tho Government's espionage service suppressed a telegram to "The Times" on 29th March, describing the death of a young officer in collision with the police. The' Governmental newspaper, the "Milliett," acting on official instructions, reported tho death as suicide. The victim's comrades after the funeral raided the "Milliet" office, smashing windows.

Ho Jed Bey explains that he cannot tolerate foreign correspondents making a fuss of an incident which might happen in any country and giving undue prominence to such events with a view of arousing suspicion and suggesting that Turkoy'a tranquillity is threatened.

Mr. Macartney says that if the incident is trifling it is strange that it was hushed up. "In any case," he says, "it hardly warrants my summary expulsion, which happened because my comments were disagreeable to tho Turks. There is an immense, inarticulate discontent smouldering under the military dictatorship.''