ANGORA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 January 1923, Page 10

ANGORA.

OVERRUN BY DOGS

Angora lies tilted up on its hill, a white blanket of flat roofs pierced with I minarets and green cypresses, and scarred across its middle with the ruins of 1915, says Clair Price in the Fort- ?- ,gh _y V. At its foot lie its requisitioned Government buildings and its railroad station. And everywhere in the streets, from the latticed labyrinth at the top of the town to the weedy marsh at its foot, lie its dogs. Once they were sheep-dogs on the hills along the Sakaria River, so fierce that no stranger dared approach them. But their flocks disappeared in the £reek retreat last year, their shepherds have been conscripted by the army, and the dogs, wolfish-grey brutes with black noses, are left to haunt the streets or Angora. / To wear a hat in Angora is like going about heating a gong. In a population of some 45,000 (its normal population is 25,000) there was last spring no permanent foreign population in the town except an Italian bank manager, an American relief worker, and the personnel of the Russian, Azerbaijan, ,and Afghan "embassies.'' who are accredited to Mustapha Kemal Pasha. There was even less passing population frojn other countries. "Angoras sole industry today is the Turkish Nationalist Government and its army.''