THE NEAR EAST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16902, 29 November 1922, Page 7

THE NEAR EAST.

FATE OF REFUGEES.

“THOUSANDS WILL PERISH” By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 29. 9.15 a.m.) LONDON. November 28. The Constantinople correspondent of the " Daily Telegraph ” Vsays that he apprehends terrible loss of life in the gieat trek from Anatolia towards the Black Sea and Mediterranean ports. Piteous messages foreshadow effects which will shock the world. It is understood that the Angora Government has ordered all Christians to leave within one month. and 1.500,000 are either preparing for departure or on the road in long drawn out columns. They are having an* appalling time crossing the snow covered, country. Ton thousand Christians and two thousand orphans are left in Sivu-s. while a wireless message from Samsun to the American naval authorities says: Can you take « thousand mountain children? Tf not- it means their end.” An American destroyer at 'lYebizond ha/; wirelessed : “ Cannot hold up the evacuation of the town much longer AVe are overwhelmed with refugees from the interior. Unless additional ti an sport at ion is immediately provided, thousands will perish.”

| WORK AT LAUSANNE. I I DEMANDS FROM SOVIET. F»y Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright I Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, j (Received November 29. 9.J0 a.m 4 ) LAUSANNE. November 29. : The conference is making no proI gress. Lord C'urzon declares that i Britain agrees with Mr Childs concerni ;ug the zones of influence. Turkey re~ ! gnvdw the tri-partite agreement of 1920 [ as non-existent. ! Britain’s policy with reft rence to I petrol in Mosul is that- there shall be I »r. open door legulated by contracts j and adjudications. t The Russians have sent a Note deI mantling admission to all the debates i on a basics of equality with the other I Powers. Tsmet Pasha demands Turkey’s complete economic independence, and > a division of the Ottoman debt pro j rata among the ceded territories.