WAR ON CHRISTIANS.
CRUELTY OF THE TURKS.
SHOCKING BARBARITY. BRITAIN TAKES ACTION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 16, 8.5 p.m. London, May 16. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, said Lord Curzon has sent the French, Italian and American Governments proposals for an immediate joint investigation into the grave charges against the Angora Turks of cruelty and barbarity towards the Christian minorities in Asia Minor. ' Mr. Chamberlain read statements of Dr. Ward, the Near Eastern Relief Commissioner, stating that the Turks were deliberately planning to exterminate the Christian minorities, herding Ottoman Greeks into Amassia in such a manner that large numbers d e en the roads, on which thousands of dead had been counted. These atrocities have been going on for seven years.
Mr. Chamberlain added that confirmation had been received of Major Youell’s report that the Turks murdered ten thousand Greeks, afterwards seizing their widows and daughters and transferring them to harems.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1922, Page 5
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157WAR ON CHRISTIANS. Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1922, Page 5
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