GREECE AND TURKEY.
, CHARGES IN ENCYCLICAL. {press association.] ATHENS, August 17. " The Greek Patriarchate convoked the .' National Assembly to discuss the positio- -of the Church. The encyclical states that there have been systematic and violent persecutions.' Sometimes petty offences have led to the wnole 1 town being treated as though it was in revolt, while innocents were severely • punished and churches defiled, cemeteries dug up, priests arrested and citizens beaten to death and tortured. The Turkish Government has forbidden the holding of the National Assem1 ~ bly ' ___———•
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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86GREECE AND TURKEY. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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