FIVE RUSSIAN DIVISIONS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 245, 29 September 1922, Page 5

FIVE RUSSIAN DIVISIONS.

ASSEMBLED JN*THE CAUCASUS. (Received 29, 12.45 p.m.) Ijondon, September 28. The ‘"Daily Telegraph’s” Constantinople correspondent states that there is no information of any considerable concentration of Kemalist forces opposite the neutral zone. The British view is that Nationalist statements about eight divisions at Ismid are untrue. There is a report from a good source that the Bolsheviks have concentrated five divisions in the Caucasus. It is inferred they are for the purpose of exerting pressure* on the 'l urks to act in accordance with Russian wishes. y The Allies have ordered the Greek warships Averoff to leave the Bosporus. and have similarly forbidden Greek transports with troops at Rodostu to pass the Straits. Equal treatment is thus meted out <o the Greeks and Turks. Ten British destroyers are now anchored in the Bosporus.—(A. and N.Z.)

JUGOSLAVIA. GUARDS HER OWN FRONTIERS. (Received 29. 11.40 a.m.) Belgrade, Sept. 2S. It is authoritatively stated that Jugo-Slavia will not send an expedition to Turkey unless Hungary and Bulgaria disarmed their frontiers SMYRNAN REFUGEES. KEMAL’S TIME LIMIT. BRITAIN’S EFFORT TO SAVE 200,000 OUTCASTS (Received 29. 11.40 a.m.) London, Sept. 2S. The Government is urgently endeavouring to persuade Kemal t<; postpone the date to the 30th whereafter Greeks and Armenians will not he allowed to leave Smyrna. Fearing for the fate of the surplus of 200.000 who will be unable to escape before the 30th. Britain has chartered 15 ships to take off the refugees, and it. faced with the problem of how to feed and. where to despatch them. The American admiral, Admiral Bristol, is closely co-operating.—(Reuter). N.Z. REPRESENTATION. AT THE KEMAL CONFERENCE /Spacial to “Tribune.”) Parlt. Bldgs., Sept. 29 Official consideration has apparently not yet been given here to the suggestion that New Zealand and Australia should have special representation at the Near East conference. Information fßom official circles, however, indicates that developments will be awaited, though the idea is rather favoured. Representation can bo readily arranged for New Zealand should it be thought desirable, for a Minister of the Crown, Sir Francis Bell, is still abroad and available for the purpose