THE NEAR EAST.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 17 May 1922, Page 8

THE NEAR EAST.

ATROCITIES Tj CHRISTIANS. POWERS’ TO INVESTIGATE. Press Assn. By Tel.—Copyright. London, May 16. Mr Chamber!. , the House of Commons, said t . ; , ;i . rd ha(] sent the French, I .|f an and American Governments the proposals for an immediate joint ■ igation into the grave charges ... t the Angora Turks of cruelty ■ , narbarity towards Christian minoriuH.- .... Asia Minor. Mr Chamberlai: . ! the statement of Dr Ward, tli. Eastern Relief Commissioner, that the Jurks were deliberately , ! '.iiing to exterminate Christia: .rities bv herding the Ottomai t . into Amasia m such a manner t large numbers would die on the 1.-- on which thousands of dead !i: ■ u counted. These atrocities ; . I been going on. for seven years. Mr Chamberlai: ‘ i>f that confirmation had been -cM of Major Youell’s report. '. the Turks murdered 10,000 Grt"’:s, afterwards seizing widows and dp.i.igiiters and transferring them to harems