THE NEAR EAST

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1923, Page 3

THE NEAR EAST

turkkT’s capital. [“Thu Tlukh” Service.] LONDON, Aug. 21. Tho “Tiirn's" in a special article, says that it is difficult to realise that Turkey is governed from the village of Angora. The "Times" says its corrsepondent describing ramshackle administration, states the Premier occupies an unimposing structure near the school which is used as the House of Representatives. Other Ministers tire housed in dilapidated, unsuitable buildings, rough floors strewn with rugs with the oddest incongruous furniture. Oil lamps and candles are the sole illuminations. Water is drawn from new stand pipes in the streets. A single -s' hostelry provides aceommodation, hut no food. The rooms arc devoid of eon**fenieucos and are filled with beds oeett- - pied by deputies and summoned oflieials. The passages are strewn with beds and a single sink is fed by a tin of water wliielt is the only washing arrangements for guests. Privileged , guests of tlie Government are offered accommodation iri a railway coach at the station. A car attached is equipped with a wash basin and douche, but is rendered almost uninhabitable by mosquitoes and flies. There is great j scarcity of food. Officials, deputies and visitors have meals at the restaurant adjoining parliament buildings. Almost continuous wars have impoverished the country yet the revenue and expenditure have not been debased, by the printing press. The Turkish pound has only depreciated to a seventh of its value.

GREEK ACTION. ('Received this day at 11. to n.m.) ATHENS, Aug. 21. Government have issued a decree suppressing tdl workers organisations, outfiscaling the archives and ordering all funds to he deposited in the National Rank as the foundation of a Workers’ Provident fund.