The Lord Mayor on Monday presided over a large meeting
called to protest against the threatened abandonment of the Christian minorities in Asia Minor to the brutality of the Turk. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a letter read at the meeting, said that he could not believe that the generous French would allow the massacres to go on. Lord Bryce stated that the Kemalists were deliberately wiping out all the Greeks and Armenians, of whom a million had perished simply because they were Christians. It was pointed out that many of the people now faced with death had been induced to settle in Cilicia under promise of French protection. The plain truth is that France accepted a mandate which she now finds it incon- venient to carry out, and that the Christians in Cilicia are to be sacrificed in order to save the French taxpayer's purse. No one believes in the alleged " guarantees" given by Mustapha Kemal. The Christians who cannot flee will be butchered.
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