BRAWL IN CHURCH
GREEK PRIEST ATTACKED. BRITISH INTERVENTION. LONDON, June 9. A brawl occurred in the Greek church at Galata Constantinople, during the reading of the patriarchal sentence of excommunication on Damianos and other hooligan aggressors of the patriarch. British police arrested Damianos, who struck the interpreter, but the Turkish police removed him from the custody of the British. •General Harington has demanded his surrender to the British. A later message says that the Turkish ponce were passive spectators of the attack on the Greek priest, who was saved from the hooligans by the intervention of British policemen. The latter had been sent to the church with an interpreter to ensure order. The interpreter was wearing a British uniform when he was struck by Damianos.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18898, 26 June 1923, Page 7
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