TURKS RISING.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1922, Page 5

TURKS RISING.

NEW DANGER IN THRACE. GREEKS AND TURKS CLASH. THE REFUGEES STARVING. By Telegraph.—Press Asen.—Copyright. Received Nov 30, 7.35 p.m. London, Nov. 29. The Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Express states information has been received that the Turkish population in Western Thrace is rising en masse. It is feared Turkish extremists are attempting to force the issue to provide Lausanne with an accomplished laci, but there ie no confirmation as to the extent of the Apparently there has b£en fighting between Greeks and Turks around Dedeagattch and Karagatch. The Greeks have two re-formed army corps on the western bank of the Maritza. The plight of the refugees in Western Thrace is terrible. Half a million are starving, half naked and diseased, while hundreds are dying daily irom typhus. Roving bands of Greeks, Turks, Bulgars and Macedonians are causing trouble.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TURKS DELAYING BUSINESS. Received Nov. 30, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 29. A message from Lausanne states the sub-commission dealing with Dodecanese was to meet to-day, but the Turks refused to continue the discussion without the presence of the Russians, claiming the question was closely connected with the defence and protection of the Straits. THE ISLANDS QUESTION. Received Nov. 30, 5.5 p.m. Lausanne, Nov. 29. The principal commission has adopted a report dealing with the questions of the islands. The Turkish delegates, who had previously refused to discuss the questions unless the Russian delegatee participated, made certain reservations. TURKISH FINANCES. ALLOCATION OF DEBT. Lausanne, Nov. 29. Ismet Pasha, addressing the financial and economic commission, expressed astonishment that the Allies; should demand from Turkey payment for the cost of ’ the occupation of Constantinople. Turkey regarded the occupation as a measure of violence, demanding compensation not payments. M. \ enizelos, contesting Ismet’s demand for a division of the Ottoman debt, declared that the Ottoman loans had not been used in the provinces wlieh became Greek. Turkey alone was responsible for the Greece-Turkish war and had no moral basis for her demand for an indemnity. M. Barrere, for the Allies, was of opinion that Albania ought to take a share of the Ottoman debt.