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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2481, 16 September 1922, Page 1

GREEK CLAIM TO THRACE. APPEAL TO BRITAIN AND FRANCE. PARIS, Sept. 13. M. Venizelos has arrived, lie will confer with M. Poincare and Mr Lloyd George in London later to urge the Allies to uphold the Greek claim to Thrace, which he believes (he Turkish successes are endangering.—A. and N.Z. cable. ASSISTANCE FOR GREECE. JUGO-SLAYTA MOBILISING. ATHENS, Sept. 13. Il is reliably slated that the Governments of Jttgo-Slavia and Roumania intend to aid Greece in the event of a Balkan conflict. Jugo-Slavia is mobilising and concentrating her troops towards Uskub.- —A. and N.Z. cable. REPLY IN UNITED STATES. WASHINGTON, .Sept. 12.,. The Secretary for Wur, answering Sir Rndyard Kipling, says: “No good pur*pose can lie served by Sir Rndyard Kipling's statement, even if it were justified bv facts. I will not enter into a con trowel's}’ abonr the United States' pari in the war. but I cannot understand how a man t of Sir Rndyard Kipling’s learning makes a statement without ascertaining the fnct>. or that: he publicly asserts as a fact something refuted by matters of record. The evidence indicates that the British and French leaders were responsible for the armistice which was entered into over an American protest. The United States did not profit as the result of the war, but spent, nearly twenty billions of dollars and loaned additional money to foreign countries, and asked for no reparations. Inc history of the United States' participation in the war is honourable in every respect. —A. and N.Z. cable. CHRISTIANS NOT TO BE MOLESTED. PARIS, Sept. 13. The Matin states that the Christian minorities need not fear molestation by the Turkish, Mustapha having personally undertaken their protection and maintenance.—A. and N.Z. cable. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.*