THE NEAR EAST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18803, 5 March 1923, Page 5

THE NEAR EAST

GREEKS EXPELLED FROM TURKEY. TURKISH PRISONERS HELD UP, Preaa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ATHENS, March 2. Owing to alleged had faith on the part of the Turks, who continue to expel Greeks from Turkey, the Crock Government has notified the Red Cross at Geneva that the commission regulating the exchange of prisoners was holding up Turkish prisoners.—A. and N.Z. Cable. UNFORTUNATE REFUGEES. DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS. LONDON, March 2. In connection with the Greek protest against the treatment of Greek refugees by the Turks, the Daily Telegraph’s Constantinople correspondent naid a visit to what he terms the Black Sea inferno. Tie tramped over a strip of shore 16 miles long, from San Stcfano, on the Sea of Marmora, to Yonbournon, on the Black Sea, whore the so-called concentration camps of the Greek refugees are situated. There was not a tent or a sera)) of shelter for the 1200 people camped on the shore of the Black Sea beyond what the refugees had improvised from their clothes and bed-coverings. The unfortunates were huddled together for warmth, with smallpox rampant among them. A bread boat nassed daily, distributing a pound of bread pef head. —A. and N.Z. Cable. TURKO-AMERICAN RELATIONS. PROPOSAL FOR RUPTURE DEFEATED, WASHINGTON, March 3. (Received March 4, at 5.5 p.m.) An effort to cause the United States to break off diplomatic relations with Turkey until the latter’s forces are withdrawn from Armenia was frustrated in the Senate to-day. Senator King ’ introduced n, resolution containing this projxwa-l, and charging the Turks with the occupation of Armenia and obstructing peace settlements. Senator Lodge., as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, objected to the resolution, which was killed for this session.—A. and N.Z. Cable.