Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1922, Page 4

SMYRNA REFUGEES NOW FACE PLAGUE More Than 2,000 Perished in Turk Victory—2,500 Build- ings Burned. FOOD AND WATER LACKING Kemalists Bombard Fleeing Greek Army, Despite Pleas for Mercy. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 16.— d of 2.000 persons perished in the great fire at Sm fngs were destroved, and all the American property wiped out. The catastrophe, say direct advie received here, is of much greater pro- portions than the onflagration at Sa'oniki, In 1917, which cuused $100,- | 000,000 damage and left 200,000 hom less. i A heavy rain continued to fall II'(t'Y“ the fire, mak ht of the in- habitant a pitiable. | { pulace fled ded with n blue- shelter any in des- water and | »f the frantic pe erfront Thousa and of A m et and water, ar sanitary cond pestil i Rrit lquarters announces that | Field Marshal Vi t neh ri} of Ypres, is expe to arrive here shortly i Reports were enrrent vesterday that bombardir proved th, work of the eries which we f the ( 11 d warships w Smyrna, but at the connonading Kemalists’ co: w i | | t i at king the rem forces evacuating the Chesme penin- sula. The British ithorit appealed to the Turkish officers to cease firing. as the retiring troops were no longer | combatants. but helpless refusees. | and the Turkish action, they declared. | was in violation of th of | humanity_and internations however. ignore rey. and the ¢ er heavy fire, withy The Kemalists. ish plea for m v retired un many wounded Turks Called t By Cable to T [ Arms. o Daily News, RERLIN All Turk- at once is estima ks in th army or under German & the world wi Soviet 10 Aid kel Septem evolutionary 1 over by Le have decided ilitacy co Trotsky to prej fo «tioned and in ¢ the soviet one corps of | ready is stationed on | frontier. ready to march | of Mustipha Kem - Turkish national n nople conference of the council. pre- | 15 been s reported that for ~dinary being kept nx to have | t that it w f them & take decide the abive ro that it was reported ; treaty binds | ) other source Russo-Angora the Mo wernment to co-operate with Mustapha Kemal capture of th receive ¢ freedom Black Gen. Sergius Kameneff. commander of the bolshevik armi have departed for the Moscow government officially | announces the ca ng to the colors of hitherto exempted citizens born in 1901 .. FFERS RELEE T0 SHIVRNA VTS Admiral Bristol and Two Ambas- | sadors Instructed to Assist i Sufferers. i 1 Rear Admiral Bristc | commissioner at Consts States amb | the United { london and Paris have been notified | by Acting Secretary Phillips of the | state department that the United States government desires to join in | “a joint and comprehensive plan” for relief in the emergency caused by the burning and sacking of Smyrna. Secretary Phillips said the request had been made after he personally had conferred with representative | officiais of the American Red Cross | and the Near East Relief. While the | two organizations, he cabled $25.000 each for in/the Smyrna district partment felt that private organizations while ready ate were unable to situation or provide temporary said, had | relief work the State De- [ relief | to co-oper- | copa with the more than a amelioration Text of Message. Eecretary Phillips' message to Ad- miral Bristol followa: “After consuiting fully with Amer- ican. Red Cross and Near East Relief department is of opinion that situa- tion ‘¢learly beyong the scope of any | priyate charity, only government ac- | tion by allies with aid of transport | for | gvacuating refugees canm bring | about permanent relief. Find Amer- | jcan private relief organizations | ready. to co-operate to help meet imipediate emergency if some plan for permanent relief is developed and put_into operation at.once. “Private relief feels that it would be idle even to attempt temporary amelioration of _situation unless permanent cure is in sight. All money .available could be used up.in first tWo or three weeks and situa- HT- euwld be just as pressing at enli"bf that time unless this breath- ing spell were used to put into action some comprehensive scheme to ulti mately reduce and solve the problem, America anxlous to help, but feel: responsibility clearly on governments which have equipment and military and navl organizations on the ground that can be put to work at once. “Without assuming any commit- ments department desires you _in cousultation with your allled col+ leagues and their military and naval representatives to draw and submit immediately, & joint and comprehen-. aivé plan for the Smyrna emergency.” Secretary Phillipa” was careful to empharize that the m referred . exclusively to rellef measures and bad ne political or military signifi- [ BRITAIN 1S GRIPPED “ ;i Struggle Re-Enacted, Fol- | days | Prime { from i been sold. floating debt increased durin, ten days of September by 10,345,000, Y T ey (Map Drawn by John A. Curtin.) Turkish nationalist troops, having driven the Greeks from Asia Minor and destroyed Smyrna, are now threatening Constantinople, to reach which they must march north and west and cross the Bosporus. Con- trol of the Dardanelles, through which allied warships must pass into the S i i tercept the cros porus, is now Kemal Pasha and the British fleet. Once past Gallipoli, where the Turks defied the allied fleets during the great war, the British flect could easily prevent any at- ack on Constantinople from Asia Minor. e Map shows where allied ships the aim of both will attempt to entet the Dar- dunelles from the Agean; Smyrna, sacked and burned by the Turks; Brusa, where the ignominious Greek flight began, and Angora, capital of the sec- tion controlled by the Turkish nationalists. Arrow shows the proposed -march to the Bos- pory BY THREAT OF WAR Scenes of Recent World lowing Fall of Smyrna. BY HAL By Cable to The Star and Chicage O'FLAHERTY. [ 16.—An ele LONDON, September atmosphere reminiscent of war ! pervaded White Hall Friday afterncon as the result of the alarm- ing near east situation. From the office, where plans were under for moving troops to Constanti- le. to Downing street where cr, wds waited to catch a glimpse:of Minister Lloyd George hurry- he cabinet meeting, there xist the tenseness so fa a few ago. the new ected the time spi of al port sa ampton | arine a detachment of soldiers to bt nia. Ncwspaper posters on every corncr again _shrieked the mitous word “war.” Lloyd George met with late in the day it was ull knowledge that definite nust be taken to meet the aggre the part of Mustapha \ Pasha, who erday sent broad cast the public statement that the al- 1st_either give the Turks Con- | stantinople or be prepared to defend the city against his armies. In offi- here doubt exists as to mal will carry his threats as the allied forces al- Constantinople or on their the neutral zone are fully of resisting the Turkish { the in to e forces ull co-operation of British and | French in defending Constantinople | ypi ns assured as the French cab Friday sent a note to Downin Agreeing that such unity wa: may vet be chosen as the| ace of the meeting preliminary to | a general peace conference. ! —_— : OF U. 5. CERTIFICATES Secretary Mellon Says Action Due to Improvement of Invest- ment Market. ' Increase in the issue prices of ! treasury savings certificates, * effec- tive October 1,-1923; was announced last night by Secrétary Mellon, where- by the government W}l ask $20.50 for the $25 certificate, 82 for the $100 GEN. TOWNSEND, En route to London, carrying Lloyd George Kemal Pasha’s mensage. By the Assaciated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 16.— Renewed celebrations were held through- out Asia Minor vesterday to mark the sweeping Turkish victory over the Greeks. day is the Turkish Sunday. and the entire Moslem population ceased its wonted pursuits and repaired to the mosques to offer prayers of thanksgiv- ing to Allah For the first time since 1433, when the Turks captured Constantinople, the sultan went to the tomb of Mohammed the conqueror, in Stamboul. anll paid o the memory of his illustrious or. Several miles of exulting and jubilant Turks, with flaming flags, ed the streets and watched their sov- 2 trip in an The sulta strects has he th no precedent in recent people seized upon the occasion to give him a stirring but rev-, erent ovation. Heretofore he has cor -d himself to the palace at Yildez, BRITAIN PREPARES TO BLOCK TURKISH DRIVE ON STRAITS (Continued from First Page.) fiss Annie E. Pinneo. a teacher of the American Woman's College at Smyrna, named the following as hav- ng arrived at Athen The families of Cass Arthur Reed Rev. Cales W. Lawrence of Melrose, J. K. Birge of Bristol, Conn., and the Rev. Samuel L. Caldwell of -North- field, also Miss Minnie B. Mills of Jowa Falls, Miss Emily B. Calluem. principal of the Woman's College Miss Gertrude C. Grohe of Massachu etts, Miss Sara E. Snell of Brookline, Miss Helen Craig of California and vage of Newburyport. Mr. and Mrs. Dana K. Gretchell ormerly stationed at Marsovan, are reported as being in Constantinople. Greek Troops Mutinous. By the Associated Press. ADRIANOPLE, \ September 14. — 1 Greek troops throughout Thrace are ‘BOOSTS ISSUE PRICES | exhibiting a mutinous attitude. There are many desertions. The death penalty, however, has been waived, because of the fear that its enforce- ment would mean the dissipation of a large part of the army, it is de- clared in quarters close to the mili- tary. The Associated Press correspond- ent, on the way through Thrace, ob- served scores of discouraged and disheveled Greek soldiers, making their wa: with the population exhibiting a hos. tile attitude toward them. Prominent Venezilost officers, it is declared here, have left Constantinople for Thrace, for the alleged purpose of starting an anti-royalist move- ment, while several well known Turkish agitators have left for Bul- garia to stir up the population againsg the Greeks. The Greel® army has six divisions, comprising 10,000 men, massed at éertificate and $820 .for ‘the $1,000 certificate! 5 . At the new prices the certificates ill yield about 4 per cent compourid- and about 3 per cent simple interest if redeemed before maturity. The new certificates’ will be dated September 30, 1922, in order to distinguish them the certificates now on sale, Which are dated December 15, 1921. The readjustment in rates was | | ¢aused by the “improvement that has) ¢onsul at Saloniki. taken in~ the investment markets. “The current issue of certificates,” said Secretary Mellon, “which is be- ing sold at $20 for a $25 certificte, $80 for a $100 certificate, apd $800 ing sold at $20 for & $25 certificate, on sale until the cldse of business September 30, 1922, and, will then be withdrawn from sale In favor of the new certificates. Treasury savings stamps, non-interest .bearing, which are now on sale in fhe denomination of $1, will likewise be withdrawn from sale at ‘the close of business September 30, 1922 ‘The cufrent ‘issue of treasary savings certificates was first ' placed on sale December 15, 1921, and since that date certificates up to about $115,000,000° (maturity value) .have' Sales have been -running te. .of *.abaut : $15,000,000 maturity e per.month .and , there is every evidence' that tRe" certifi- cates have proven incre ngly at- tractive to investors. F\E place at the GERMAN DEBT INCREASES. BERLIN, September 16.—Germany’s the first per cent of .all the Gumurjina, and 3,000 troops on the line running from Adrianople to Ku- leli-Burgas, thence to Sinekle. The Turks are reported to be smug- i ed semi-annually, if Tield to maturity, | 8ling munitions into Thrace from Black sea ports. U.'S. Aids Refugees. Arrival yesterday of the American destroyer Edsall at Salontki with 600 destitute refugees from Smyrna was reported in State Department advices today from Leland Morris, American Consul Morris said the local authorities assured him of shelter and food for 8,000 refugees, but clothing, blankets and milk for children were lacking. The advices stated that thousands of other refugees were expected at Salonlki and relief workers were vitally needed. Emergency rellef supplies for the refugees already ar- rived, it was said, had been furnished by Consul Morris from the stores of the Near East Relief. CHILE TOLD OF PERU’S RATIFYING ANCON PACT By the Associated Press. The Chilean foreign office has receiv- ed formal notification of Peru's rati- fication-of the Ancon treaty protocol and complementary act signed at the ‘Washington conference. “The Chilean senate foreign rela- tions committee has unanimously adopted a report on the protocol and its complementary act, recommending negotiations !.o: &nfll&z ints Ina::Q agreement, wl m; consider- ed harmful t6 the country’s interest. P o : THE EVENING™STAR, ‘WASHINGTON HOW ALLIES PROPOSE TO SAVE CONSTANTINO:! Moslems Give Praise to Allph For Turk Victory at Smyrna secretly to Constantinople, | D: 0, SXTOURDAY, PLE. | RUSSIAN ACTORS FLOCK T0°CENTRAL EURPE Influx of Dramatic Talent Is Revo- lutionizing Stage Stand- ards. ! BERLIN, September 16-—wRussian dramatic art is revolutionizing the theaters of central Europe. Actors, singers and dancers who were forced to leave Russia because of political troubles and the food shortage first found their way into music halls and cabarets, and recently the regularly organized Russian companies have op- tained permission from the soviet ‘|government to leave Russia for short engagements in Furopean capitals. Fifty players from the Moscow Art Theater, in many ways the most cele- brated theater in the world, are now in Berlin offering a number of their productions just as they present them in Moscow. Among the plays in their repertoire are “Cricket on the Hearth,” Strindberg’s “Eric Fourteenth” and “Twelfth Night. Berlin now has a Russian popula- tion of nearly 200,000, and it conse- quently affords large audiences for prodwctions in the Russian language. FIELD MARSHAL FRENCH, World War Hero, ordered to Near East front and likely to have charge of British forces rushing to defense of Constantinople. s much privacy as an. tended the cere- mony in Stamboul observed that the sultan, although thin and slightly bent. appeared alert vigorous. He saluted the group of American visitors pleasant- Iy as he emerged from prayer. Constantinople is a forest of crimson flags with the familiar star and cres- cent. The colors even fly from the four commanding minarets of the famous Mosque of St. Sophia, whose recapture | has been the dream of the Greeks for centurte: A wave of enthusiasm ha the Turks and upon every hand one hears the declaration that the Christians must be driven out and the ancient glory of the capital re-established. Many Greeks and Armenians, apprehensive of the occupation of the city by the forces of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, are leaving for distant points. Late yesterday afternoon the sultan's guard. 300 strong, mounted on blach Chargers and carrying triumphant ban- ners, ¢ tered through the city, and for a time the nervous Greeks thought them { the advance guard of the Kemalist army. SAFSANUNDSEN P WL B DESTROYED and observed about the Pope in the Vat Americans who vept over | | Arctic Navigator Declares Ice Floes Will Break Up the Maud. i JATTLE. Wash.. September 16.—! Capt. Roald Amundsen's schooner faud, in which he set out from this city last June on an expedition to the Inorth pole, is sure to be crushed in !the ice pack off Wrangell Island, {where Capt. Amundsen left her, in the opinion of Capt. E. T. McIntyre, who for eighteen years has navigated the Arctic ocean, and has just returned here from East Cape. Siberia. “I can't believe,” said Capt. McIn- 'tyre, “that Amundsen will attempt to | fiy over the north pole this season.” Capt. McIntyre declared that Capt. Oscar Wisting, navigator of the Maud, and his crew, will be lucky if they can get back to land alive. ! “In my opinion.” he said “the Maud | | is doomed. Her bottom is constructed so that the ice will lift her up. Very good. But no matter what her con- |struction when those huge hum mocks begin closing in en her sides she’s going to crush. It Capt. Amundsen should attempt | to fly across the pole this season that | would be the end of him and his pilot. He's at Wainwright now, and he'li | | have 1,200 miles to fly before reach- ling the pole. The Arctic ocean is full | of ice this fall—hummocky ice—that | wouldn't permit a landing any- where” & SIXTEEN ROADS SIGN TERMS ON PRE-WAR “BASIS” (Continued from First Page.) Freight Handlers and Station Em-| ployes, afliliated with the American Federation of Labor. A proposition, the nature of which was not revealed, ‘was submitted to the meeting by D. L. Miller of Pittsburgh, general chair- man of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks. Miller, according to the statement issued following the meeting, was Dresent as a representative of the De- partment of Labor. PLAN 24-HOUR WORK DAY. Rail Shops Expected to Absorb All Surplus Skilled Men. Practically all the raflroads sub- seribing to the Warfleld-Willard- Jewell agreement plan to inaugurate twenty-four-hour work days in order to get equipment back to normal, the Department of Labor was informed yesterday by Commissioner of Con- ciliation Nelson at Chicago. Labor Department officials expressed the bellef that in view of this the de- SANTIAGO, Chile, September 16.—|mand for labor would absorb practi- cally all of the surplus skilled work- ers in the country who can be used in railroad shops. 0DD FELLOWS CONVENE. DETROIT, Mijch., September 16.— Canada and every state in’the Union ‘was represented at the opening here today of the annual convention of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, Independent .Order of Odd Fellows. The sessions continue through next . A pa- :uo.ln;vueh-ortdmlfi 5 Xpected to march, jated i The company's work is notabl perfection of the stage picture. all the European capita at the various seaside ¢ and Scheveningen are giving employ- ment to many Russian performersgand singers. for the natural methods of the players, the lack of stars, and the marvelous abil- ity of all actors to contribute to the The ability of Russians as pantomimists and dancers has made it possible for them to_enter the variety houses in as well as nos. Ostend They have found places in the French and German variety the- aters, and they are making their way to America in larg® numbers, Russian dancers are so thoroughl: - i SEPTEMBER 16, 1922 HOUSE SAYS EUROPE’S ILLS DUE TO FRENCH FEAR OF NEIGHBORS By the Assceiated Pross. | said, “France has an army inferior to BOSTON, Septémber ,16.—Fiance's | none the world has ever seen, and if she wished she could trample Europe un- fear of her neighbors is the keynote of | jor hor feet. But France realizes that the present International situation In|her fiscal condition will not allow her Europe, Col. Edward M. House, per-|to maintain such an army indefinitely. sonal representative of President Wil- |She fears the possibility of an alliggice e in | 38ainst her of Germany and Russla— son to the European governments in|fwo mations already on very close rein- 1914, 1915 and 1916, said yesterday on | tions. his return from Europe after an ex- “If the league of nations had been tended tour. He arrived on the Cunard | rendered a success by the participation liner Tyrrhenia, and appeared more of America there would have been none willing to talk of his experiences aboard | of these post-war troubles in Europe. the liner than of the. present attitude Now France has no assurance of pro- of European statesmen toward America. | tection from her neighbors in the fu- “At the present time, Col. House ture.” u. lS INVESTIGATES DEATH|WORKSHOP PLANE OF CAMP LEWIS MAIOR| BEING BUILT FOR Fifty of 200 Witnesses in Cronk- BRITISH AIR FLEET hite Case Are Questioned on LONDON, September 16.—There is | First Day of Probe now being bullt for the air ministry the | By the Assoclated Press. GERMANS RESPOND TOWIRTH'S SLOGAN Newspapers Echo “Bread First and Then Reparations Payments.” BY GEORGE WITTE. By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Da ews. Copsright, 19 BERLIN, September 16.—Chance!- lor Wirth's slogan, “first bread an: clothing for the German people, th reparations payments,” has found : echo among the newspapers. Near] all of them refer to the recent ric ing in Berlin, Munich and Bock which was caused by the high « of living and low wages. The Cor munistic Rothe Fahne publishes fi howing that the cost of livis is 289 times as much as before 1 first flying stores and workshop ever | constructed in this country. The mach- | TACOMA, Wash,, September 16.— The Department of Justice's investi- ine has a large fusilage and is to be| used to carry spare parts with operating | gatlon into the death of Maj. Alex- ander Cronkhite, at Camp Lewls, air fleets. This will avoid the necessity | e s on ke ataCamp Wew's llorian airpiine havingitn retufn toead- Gay Pwith” the questioning of more | QUArters to obtain the requisite spare than fifty witnesses. Several wit-)parts for repairs when some slight nesses came from Alaska and others | trouble has developed, or as an alterna® subpoenaed for the federal grand | If a pilot, when flying on maneuvers, Ninety-six per cent of the sche children” in the industrial citles ar undernourished,” the pAper says, * |even now 20 per cent of these w | suffer for lite from the present lac of food. Where before the war t | average working man in Germa | earned 28 to 20 gold marks a we he now earns only 8 gold marks whereas the price of food, clothing and fuel has kept pace with the dro J:ry t‘:mt will rlr;e»l Tuesday. Xvi,lnsl 0: develops trouble of some sort, he will the witnesses here were members of | . i 2 e e 4 . el May. |SiEnal to the fiying 3 Sl il Ll s e ¢ t will carry spare parts of the type that Cronkhite was attached. are being used by the unit. 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