TURKS’ VICTIMS.
GREEKS AND ARMENIANS.
LONDON, December 5. Reuter has received from a Greek source figures showing that in the spring of 1914 the Turks deported / 00,000 Greeks, of whom 600,(m) are now; refugees in Greece. From the beginning of the war to the end of 1917 the Turks had deported 2,140,0 CX) Greeks and Armenians, of whom 900,000 Greeks had been massacred. Further, 200,000 mobilised Greeks had been put to death or had died of their sufferings. A great number of women and children had been converted forcibly to Islamism. Others had been killed or had committed suicide. The property of Greeks taken bv the Turks and Germans was valued at £120,000,000.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12506, 19 December 1918, Page 4
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