THE NEAR EAST.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1922, Page 3

THE NEAR EAST.

REUTEIt’S TEIjECJHAMS. FRENCH CONSULS EXPELLED (Received this day at 3.30 a.m.) CONSTAXTiNOri-fc Nov. 14. French coimtiis at Xlersina and Adana who were appointed under the Franeo-Kemnlist pact to ensure the protection of Christian minorities have arrived here, having been expelled. This follows the expulsion of the French consul from Brusa. Leading French business men met at the Embassy and drew up a strong memorial against the present Turkish economic policy. Turkish eustims authorities decided to collect the full import duty on all goods in warehouses awaiting transhipment.

NEAR EAST VIEWS. (Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.' LONDON, Nov U. The “Morning Post's" Cairo correspondent reports Egyptian opinion is developing as unsympathetically against the Turks as Aral) opinion in Syria ad Palestine. Non-Turkish Mohammedans are aghas-t at the blasphemous interference with the Caliphate which they consider above party. This has broken the ties of sympathy uniting Kemalists and most Near Eastern people. The Arabs formally hoped for a.n extension of Turkish powei as an important factor in securing I hem < Palestine.‘They now confess lh" dream has passed, because the inspiration of Turkish movement is pure nationalism. rather than the inauguration of a movement fur the emancipaicn of the Near East. Native Christians in Syria, Palestine and Egypt condemn trim (Turkish ‘expulsion of Christians from Asia Minor.

R EFUCKES PUCHT. ''Received tins day at- 11.30 a.m ) ATHENS, Nov M. James Cm teller director of Hie American Near East relief fund, reports only those following the track of the stream of refugees can fully appreciate the significance of the vast Hight. which i sdestined to depopulate Anatolia of Christians. I am now engaged in removing ten thousand Creek Armenian orphans. A great trek is now in full Hood. All roads converging on Samsun are choked by lines ol refugees in ox-carts, who are pressing forward regardless of fatigue. Af Crutcher adds:—The fleeing refugees’ desire is to reach the sea. Eortv thousand are approaching Samson, and then is no hope of embarking, them, unless a fleet oi ships is scat immediately. 'I urkisli military aie preventing the deportation of nudes between the ages of nineteen and liftyfive and the stream of refugees is i opposed exclusively of women, children, and aged. infirm men. Harrowing scones are witnessed daily, women hit* {riving birth to children in the streets. Many' children among the refugees are blistered and bleeding .close to dco.th. Many people are biding in the mountains in perference to the perils on the long trek to the sea board, with almost the certainty of starvation on arrival.