When we go to - press on Thursday it is expected
that the- Angora Government will continue to denounce the whoM principle of an arbitral award. There is little "doul4t- that the Council of. the League was swayed in its decision by the dreadful revelations of Turkish brutality conttiined in General Laidoner's Report.--, Describing the treatment. of Christians-by the -General Laidoner _ isys that 'the Turkish soldiers, under the command of officers, occupied villages where the- Christians were living. First they obtained the surrender of all arms ; then they imposed very heavy lines and demanded . • . • women ; next they pillaged the houeS" and " subjected the inhabitants 'to atrocious acts Of yiolenee, going as far as massacre." • The-deportations are described as having .. been en mane. While the Christians were being marched „away several fell ill and were abandoned. " Others died of starvation and cold."
