TURKEY AND GREECE.
GREEK OFFENSIVE FORBIDDEN. PARIS, June 20. M. Briand and Lord Curzon fully discussed during the week-end the position in the Near East, and agreed to submit a Note to Greece demanding the desistance of the projected offensive in Asia Minor so as to enable France, Great Britain, and Italy to mediate. It was decided that Smyrna be given to Turkey, and Eastern Thrace will probably be granted autonomy, the Turkish rights being guaranteed. Italy concurs with this decision. ANTI BRITISH DEMONSTRATION. LONDON, June 20. The Morning Post’s Constantinople correspondent states that the arrival of the release! Turkish prisoners from Malta resnltc i further anti-British demonstration le Angora Parliament. Shereef Bey, .miner prisoner and vice-president of the principal parliamentary grow)), made inflammatory speeches, alleging that tho Turks were brutally treated and starved at Malta. He proposed that the British prisoners he not released till the last Turkish prisoner has been handed over.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3511, 28 June 1921, Page 17
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