TURKS’ METHODS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 106, 5 April 1926, Page 7

TURKS’ METHODS

CORRESPONDENT EXPELLED. OBJECTION TO A REPORT. ALLEGED DISCONTENT. (By Electric Telegiaph.—Copyright.) Received April 5, 9.50 a.m. LONDON, April 4. Mr Macartney, the Times’s correspondent at Constantinople, from whence he was expelled at two hours’ notice, telegraphs from Mitylene saying that the Angora authorities are indignant over' his despatches recording the closing of the English High School. The Government’s espionage service suppressed a telegram to the Times on March 29 describing the death of a young officer in a collision with the police. The Government newspaper Milliet, acting on official instructions, reported the death to have been by suicide. The victim’s comrades, after tho funeral, raided the Milliet office, smashing the windows.. Rejed Bey explains that the Government cannot tolerate foreign correspondents making a fuss of the incident, which might happen in any country, and giving undue prominence to such events with the view to arousing suspicions suggesting that Turkey’s tranquillity is threatened. Mr Macartney says that if the incident was trifling it was strange that it was hushed up. “Anyway, it hardly warrants my summary expulsion, which happened because my comments were disagreeable to Turkey. There is immense inarticulate discontent smouldering under the military dictatorship.”—Times.