The Archive · 1925

Delicate Situation

London, Jan. 31, A delicate Greco-Turkish situation has been created by the action fof the Turkish Government in, without warning, expelling the Greek Patriarch, ostensibly "under the esnvention relating to the ex-Jchange of Turkish and Greek sub-

Reuter's correspondent at Athe says that the country ix incensed at the expulsion, which is de-cribed as a violation of the Lausanne Treaty. 'A. protest ix being made to all {eiendly. countries, An urgent meeting of the Cabinet yesterday evening necessitated the cancellation of a banquet which the Greek Government had arranged to ive to the Diplomatic Corpr. "it is learnt that the Greek Government has decided to protest strongly to the Turkish Government smith regard to the expulsion of the Breck Patriarch and aleo proposes to refer the matter to the International Court of Justice at the Hague.

—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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