CRITICISM RESENTED

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 April 1926, Page 5

CRITICISM RESENTED

CORRESPONDENT’S EXPULSION

THE TURKISH EXPLANATION.

OF HU.SHED-UP INCIDENTS

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 11.40 a.m. to-day. LONDON, April 4.

Mr Macartney, correspondent for the Times at Constantinople, who was expelled from the city at two hours’ notice, telegraphs from Mit.ylene saying that the Angora '-authorities are indignant over bis dispatches recording the closing of an English high school. The Government’s espionage service suppressed a telegram to the. Times on March 29 describing the death of a voung officer in a collision with the police. The Government newspaper. Milliet, acting on official instructions, reported the death by suicide. The victim’s comrades, after the funeial, raided the Milliet office, smashing the windows. Rejed Boy explains that the Government 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 to arousing suspicion, and, suggesting that Turkey ’s tranquillity is threatened. Mr Macartney says: "If the incident is trifling, it is strange that it was hushed up. Anyway it hardly warrants my summary expulsion, which happened because my comments were disagreeable to the Turks. There is an immense inarticulate discontent smouldering under the military dictatorship. ’ ’ —Times.