NEAR EAST TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1920, Page 2

NEAR EAST TROUBLE

" 'By Electric Telegraph—Conyight.i GREEK OCCUPATION. LONDON, June 25. The Greeks have occupied Salihh. NEAR, EAST OPEIRATIQNS, a a The official weekly' military“ ‘ review states that tile Nationalist forces have reached Lapsaki on the Dardanelles. On the Upper Euphrates file Britjsh have wjtljdrqwff f hejr army fq Aqqh, which i| now flieiir most advanced post. Qffiqjil advicesi from Smyrna state that flip Greeks have surrounded a Turkish aiqpy corps ip Phjkidplphia, capturing 8000, wfth guns and other booty. ‘ ' ATHENS, June 2g. British troops op flip ISRlpid front repulsed violent Turkjsh attacks pnsfwajsd of Bagshpdjik Geiveli, capturing (100. Fighting continues, T’hti British discovered a plot to af* pack the British rear and disarmed fh@ Turks in the neighbourhood of Ismnid. The British fleet has bombarded the Turkish lines and inflicted severe losses.

GREEK OPERATIONS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, June 26. Greek compmiiique states ’ troops from Smyrna captured Spma thp enetps receding in disorder. Greeks had 130 killed iind wounded. BIG GREEK VICTORV. (Received this day at 8 ft,in.) LONDON, June g 6.

A Greek communiqcp reports Greeks occupied AJlasheir, annihilating tlie Turkish Third Corps, eight thousand be* ing killed, wounded pr captured; also large quantities of war material, prflr visions and railway stoclf, * FRANCE’S ATTITUDE, (■Received This Dav nt 8 a.m.) PARIS, June 26. M. Millerand, speaking in the Chamber, said present military operations against the Turks was merely a forced answer to attacks against the Allies. France’s participation was on a strictly limited scale. “Our Eastern policy is not one of cannon-shots. We stay in Syria (cheers) in' order to pursue*’ policy defined by the League . j»f Rations. 1 ! “Quid Pro Quo,” translated paf;, IMerely means—givp this for that, And the glad content wp fee] ' When we get an honpst deal, When the thing for which we pay Does not confidence betray, _ That satisfaction, we assure, When using Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.