NEAR EAST SITUATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15956, 18 October 1922, Page 5

NEAR EAST SITUATION.

BOUILLON STORY OF THE "INNER HISTORY."

TILT AT LLOYD GEORGE.

(Elec. Tel Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. cable Association.! PARIS, October l(i.

M. Bouillon, speaking to 7J5 pressmen, representing a score of nations, detailed the inner history of tho Mudaiiia Conference as a means of replying to Mr. Lloyd George's attacks upon Turkey. He said tho arrest of the Turkish march upon the Straits was not due to British reinforcements, but to the political sagacity of Mustapha Pasha, who wished to show Europe his desire for peace and his gratitude for the concessions obtained by the intercession of France, which had persuaded Britain to promise to restore Eastern Thrace to the Turks. The British measure of force hindered the conclusion of the armistice for 48 hours. The situation at Mudania was the gravest, since 1014. A victorious army was within 40 kilometres of its capital, yet it was asked to stop further advance for a while. Peace was menaced simply because the Turks were asked to abandon the railway station at Adrianople on the ground that it was on the other side of Maritsia. "It was a touching moment," said-M, Bouillon, "when General Harington extended his hand across the table to Ismct and said, 'We came as enemies; .we part as friends.' I can imagine General Harington's distress when he reads Mr. Lloyd George's speech."

STATEMENT BY GENERAL HARINGTON. (Australian ami N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, October 16. Mr. Martin Donohue, writing from Constantinople, states that General Harington, receiving newspaper men, emphatically denied tho published rumors of friction.and discord between himself and the British Cabinet in connection with the recent crisis. He said he was a soldier purely and simple, and he regretted his name Had been unjustly coupled with political propaganda. No soldier in British history had received greater measure of support, from his Government. He had been given a free hand. The Goveru ment had unhesitatingly backed him throughout. General Harington stated that the evacuation of Thrace would be a difficult task, and was not minimised by the unfounded reports of incendiary outrages by Greeks which the Kemalists announced, though' the Allied commissioners on the spot provrd the Kemalist tales untrue." The Greeks were behaving-admirably tints far, implicitly obeying the instructions for peaceful evacuation.

EXODUS OF CHRISTIANS

(Australian and N*Z. Cable Association.! (Received. October 18, 12.30 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 16. The Christian population is leaving Thrace. "PROPAGANDA TRICKS." FRENCH DENUNCIATION. /Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received October 18, 12.30 p.m.) PARIS, Oct, 17. 'Le Matin describes Mr Lloyd .George's allegation: that France left Britain in the lurch as "one of Lloyd George's everlasting propaganda, tricks."

CRITICISM IN INDIA. 1 LLOYD GEORGE FIERCELY ASSAILED. (Australian and N.Z. cable Association.' (Received October 18, 12.55 p.m.) DELHI, Oct. 17. Mr Lloyd George's Manchester speech is practically condemned throughout India by the English moderate and extremist press alike. Leading articles abound with the phases' "Like Limehouse,". "Alienating MoVimmedans," ''ignorant fanaticism," "Cheap sneers," "Violent distortion of facts," "Flaming ferocity." The accusation .is made that lie was ignoring the interests of millions of British Moslems in the question at issue.

INDIANS' SYMPATHY WITH THE TURKS/ (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) , (Received Oct. 18, 1.5 p.m.; DELHI, Oct. 17. Crowded meetings were held at Cal cutta, sympathising with the Turks, congratulating Kemal, and proposing to organise relief for tho dependents o£ Turkish soldiers who have fallen. Sympathisers in Delhi are proposing to offer an aeroplane to Kemal.