CONSTANTINOPLE A DYING CITY
POPULATION DWINDLING TRADE FALLS AWAY By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright LONDON, Tuesday. Travellers who have arrived in London from Turkey assert that Constantinople is a dying city. They say the wharves are idle, the palaces empty, and the banks and business houses are languishing. Steamers now go direct to the Black Sea. In addition the transcaucasian railway takes the trade of Persia and Turkestan directly to Russia, and Turkey is using Smyrna for much of its commerce. Finally the exiling of Greeks and Armenians has deprived Constantinople of its best businessmen. The population of the city now totals 700,000, compared with 1,100,000 before the war. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 48, 19 May 1927, Page 1
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