THE NEAR FAST
- AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PATRIARCH ASSAULTED. (Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, June 3.
One hundred roughs invaded the Palaco of the Grecw Patriarch, Molotios, crying: "Down with Mcletios.” They violently assaulted him while he was presiding over the Pan Orthodox Congress. The Turkish police did not interfere, an officer declaring that ho was only thero to prevent bloodshed. The Turks declare that the mob consisted of a low class of Greeks, while tho Greeks throw on to the Turks the whole blamo for the affair. French and Italian gendarmes arrived and expelled the mob. Patriarch Mcletios is seventy years of ago and had a terrible ordeal timing the melee. He has since appealed to the Allied High Commissioners for protection.
TURKISH PROPOSALS. LAUSANNE, June 2. lsniofc Pasha, at the conference submitted a proposal that Constantinople should he evacuated by the Allies immediately the treaty is ratified by the Angora Assembly, and by the Parliament of one of the Allied Powers. Experts are now engaged in finding a basis of agreement in regard 1" the payment of the Ottoman debt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1923, Page 3
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185THE NEAR FAST Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1923, Page 3
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