THE NEAR EAST,
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION POSSIBILITY OF WAR.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Fob 8. The Turks are calculating the chances ■ in the event of hostilities with great confidence. Their army, they say. will carry the British position at Chnnak in 24 hours, and will oppose successfully a. Greek advance against Thrace and Constantinople. , AMERICA SIDES WITH AId.TES | NEW YORK, Feb 9. j The ‘ New York World’s” Washington correspondent says:— The State j Department is not disposed to criticise j the action of the American Consul at! Smyrna in joining the Allied protest I against tho Turkish order that the Allied warships must leave Turkish waters. The United States vessels will ; lake such measures as are necessary to , protect American interests, pending the cleaning up of the situation. The otti- i eials at Washington generally expressed approval of the French and British! action in asking their commanders to 1 protect themselves against any Turkish . attack. j
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19230210.2.22
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1923, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
155THE NEAR EAST, Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1923, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in