Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1922, Page 4

e SIYRNA FRE KEP GOING BY VANDALS Flames Rekindled by Invisible Hands—Refugees’ Suffer-’ ings Are Intense. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. By Cable to The Star and (hicago Daily News. Copsright, 192 SMYRNA, Asia Minor, September 15 (via Constantinople, September 18).— | The conflagration which started two days ago Is progressing, for every time the fire seems to be quieting down Invisible hands start it again. The Inhabitants are starving. All are massed on the beach waiting for the help which does not come. Turkish troops are gathering the refugees and placing them in concentration camps, but the authorities do not have sufficient food and the army command refuses to feed civilian This morning the writer had a talk with Kalzim, the mew governor of the city. He claimed that the fire was started by 600 Armenians, who had remained in hiding until they were able to start thelr criminal work. He sald that twenty-two of them had already been arrested, but he was unable to produce a single prisoner -who would corroborate his statement. On the other hand, Amer- icans saw Turkish soldiers set fire to the passport office Thursday night not far from an American destroyer. Friday afternoon the commanders of the forélgn warships stationed oft Smyrna met to consider the situation, which requires prompt action. Un- the civilized countrles give help 1mediately more than 200,000 Chris- will starve to death in less than ays. The only possible way out o0 send a sufficlent number of ships ere at once to take all the Christlans to some place In Thrace or Macedonia, where, with the financlal assistance of the western powers, they may find new homes. The need s very urgent and unless all the civilized natlions arrange for | help at once these people will inevit- ably perish. All Americans are safe, though they suffered heavy property losses with the exception of the Standara_Oil Company, whose plant was outside the fire area and is in+ tact. ITALY WILL REFUSE AID IN NEUTRALITY FIGHT ernmut Wants Allied Jonfer- -ence to Settle Greco-Turk Dispute. By Cable to The Star sod Ghicago Dally News. e aoftier, clally stated it cs-:;ante in any ev-ntu.l military action in order to defend the neutral zones In;Turkey. The Itallan gov- ernment firmly holds to its opinion that thore is an urgent need for call- ing international conference at Venlcn or elsewhere, in order: to ar- range for peace between Turkey and Greece, and to settle the whole in- ternational question. Public opinion coincides with that of the government, and Forelgn Min- er Schanzer {s warned not to give way to British dilatory tactics. SEEK RELIEF WORKER. Resident of North Cerolina May Have :Been ln Smyrna. CHARLOTTE. . September 18.— Anxiety for the Noatiiy ot Dr. Isasc M. Yonan of Richmond., Va. of the Near East Relief in the United States, who sailed July 4 for®Armenia, was ressed today by his son, John g):)lr'mn“:‘l senior in Alexander Graham igh School here. | HEn ne “Yonen sald *he had mot .hem-d from his father in four weeks e Yeared he might have been In A roa and become @ victim of the i Turkish nationalists treops. Fhe Yonan family fled from Armenia to tecape the Turks threo years ago. TRAIN KILLS THREE. Automobile Party Upable to See Approaching Danger. FORT WAYNE, Ind., September 18. —John W. Rowley, sixty-five, a farm; er; his daughter, Georgians, twenty- six, and a guest, Miss Eliza Carroll. killed when an automobile in (Which they were riding. was struck by a train at a crossing six miles from here yesterday. The view of the train was sald to be obstructed-by a deep cut through which the road approach- s the right of Wi e tamily was en route to the home of relatives to attend a christening when-the accident occurred. 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CONSTANTINOPLE, September 18— Americans arriving here today from Smyrna gave graphic descriptions of the scenes they witnessed in that city during the great fire and attendant disorders. One, a resident of Smyrna. for ten years, sald the Turkish troops massacred hundreds of Christians and then deliberately set fire to the city to cover up thelr crime. Some of the inhabitants, driven in- sane by the'reign of terror which en- sued, rushed to the harbor and drowned themselves. A naturalized American citizen shot himself dead when the Kemallsts seized his wite and sister. Other Americans were in- timidated with pistols and robbed. Lieut. Commander John B. Rhodes, commander of the American destroyer Litchfield, with five bluejackets, saved six British civillans from death after the British forces evacuated the city. American sailors, at the peril of flle!r lives, rescued thousands of refugees while the fire was in progress. A Night of Terrvor. Chester Griswold, American mer- chant, performed almost superhuman work, succoring terrorized Christians by hls successful pleas with their would-be Turkish slayers. H. C. Jaquith of Darien, Conn., who, was in Smyrna from the time of the Invasion to the destructfon of the elty, said to the correspondent: “It ‘was a night of terror. The whole populace rushed to the water's edge. Women cried to heaven for help. Many plunged into the waur. preferring drowning to death b; “It was the most of misery and anguish I ever wit- nessed. The heat was 80 intense that no one in the fire sone could survive. It was an appalling climax to a week fraught wi the horrors of w massacre and eviction. “The French Catholic nuns deserve uhstinted praise for their heroism. When the fire was at its worst they rushed into the hospitals and at the risk of their own lives carried out the helpless patients. U. 8. Saflors Praised. “The American people should be proud of the valor and intrepidity of their sailors, who ahowed reckless un- concern for thelr own security, help- ing women and children to escape from the holocaust. They forced their way with bayonets lhrou‘h the densely congested crowds of crazed fugitives which extended for two miles along the quay, consoling and comforting the women and childre: “Smyrna 18 dead. The survivors will also perish unless the American government comes to their rescue. The other natiors have failed. It is the solemn and imperative duty of Christianity to save the last remnant of thelr stricken brethren on the shores of this hallowed area, which is the birthplace ot St. Peter and St. Paul. I am sure all Americans will hearken to their cries.” Rauins Stil]l Smeldering. By the Ascociated Press. SMYRNA, September 18.—Smyrna, which the Turks have called the eye of Asia, is a vast sepulchre of llhll. Only the shattersd 1s of hom: nd the charred bflfllll of coun! victims remain to tell the story of death and destruction une: ambled in modern history. The ruins are still smoldering, like a volcano which has spent its fury. No effort has been made by the Turks to re- move the dead and dying. The streets are full of the bodies of those who sought to eseape, for the most part women and children. Every bullding in the Armenian quarter has been burned, with the dead lying about. The bay, which covers an area of fifty acres, still carries on f{ts surface the poor Jyemnants of those who were mas- sacred or sought to escape the ruth- lessness of the fire. One water front crushed thousands of survivors who fear death gt the hands of soldlery; there are 1o boats to take them off. Out of 300,000 Christians crowding the city prior to the descent of the ‘Turks, only 60,000 have been evacuat- ed. Kemalist officlals have informed the American relief workers that the return of the Christians to the in- terior meant certain death. Escapes by Ruse. Dr. McLaughlin, president of the American College, was severely beaten by Turkish jrregulars and his clothes and money seized. He limped by the ald of a crugh from the suburbs of Paradise, seat of the college, and was taken aboard the British dread- naught Iron Duke. He attributed his escape from death to the fact that he can speak Turkish and worked a ruse on the Turks. B. M. Fisher and E. ©O. Jacob, directors of the Y. ., Were held up and rohhed h)’ ‘Turkish soldlers, and when attempting to escape, were fired upon. The shots, however, went wild and they reached a place of safety. A temporary American consulate, In charge of Vice Consul Maynard B. Barnes, has been established in a quay at the end of the town. The Stars and Stripes is the only forelgn flag ashore; it {s an inspiring sight amidst the ruins and desolation. The American destroyers Lawrence, Edsall and Simpson are still here. The officers and crews have been practically without sleep for five days and are doing gallant work. The only American property which es- caped destruction was the Standard Oil plant and two tobacco ware- houses in the outskirts of the city. ‘The following American maining in_ Smyrna: i Dr. W. E. Moremln C. J. Lawrence, S. L. Cald- well d E. O. Jacob. The following have left for Con- stantinople: H. C. Jaquith, Constan- tine Brown, Irving Thomas, Prentice, E. M. Fisher, E. Messrs. Crawe and Jol! Evon, Miss 8. Corning and Miss le Thousands at Pireaus. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, September 18.—The arri. val of thousands of refugees at Pireaus has brought a grave prob- lem to the Greek government,'and unless private assistance is given the destitute people may fare badly. The goverment, even with the best .in- tentions will be unable to provide the means necessary to care for the refuge: Yesterday’'s A papers were loud in their pi of the American naval detachments at Smyrna for the services rendered refugees in the burning city. Mark M. Ylnlel. Mi I LLOYD GEORGE: MAY: USE. - DEBTS cn.us ON FRENCH H Premier Will Make Delpnbh Bt- fort to Win Support Agsinst nya'm.nno':m-uw-pmunm PARIR, September 18.—It is persist- ently though -unofficially reported here that Prime Minister Lioyd George is inclined to use nu reparations qne-uvn in the b cFta T b should Apan- s fight for a German moratorium don th n anler Polncare mlflu consent to ¥ ht_sgainat the Turks in de- rdanelles. bmnln implies hardship gl|° course, b it ennnnc Bl v o i rculation. The n % r Silesia. It is sald that Sir .Yohnh radbury, who 18 now in London, Fations commIseIon. 7 vl uuu' are Bbandoned’ like those Britian Eolonel, Percival, In WARNS BRHAIN AGAINST REBELLION IN'INDIA ‘Moslem Leader Says 75,000,000 of His People Will Support y Tarks. Speeial Dispatch to The Btar, OTTAWA, September 18.—"If Great Britain has declared war on the Turks it means the allenation of 75,000,000 Mahommedans in India—almost one- || third of Indl population. We can- not afford to alienate these people at the present moment. The result would be deplorable and pitiable. This is what the Sunday Montreal Standard quotes Hon. Srinirasa Satri, member of the council of state in India, as sayink: at Montreal. The Standard asked Minjster of Mllitip Graham “whether the invitation to Canada to send troops could be dealt with by the cabinet itself or whether an emergency lon of parliament would be necessary to secure this au- thority.” “I should imagine that no troops could be sent except by special order of the Canadian parliament,” he re- led. Replying to a question as to approx- imately how many troops Canada would have available in lho evnt of war, Mr. Graham replied: “I should e-tlmlto it at between 70,000 and 80,- "Whlt are your views on’ Canala uendln‘ troopy to amother foreign war?" “What views I would have are not the question. It depends entirely upon, the views of parliament and of the cabinet.” “Would the new troops be formed t P! would have to be decided by the gov- rnmant after the official news Is re- ‘Hon. Caron, minister of u-ncm- ure of the province of Quebec, said: ‘Canada should think more than once before committing herself to another foreign war. 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