Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1922, Page 4

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Thousands, Hungry and Destitute, Still Left in Stricken Cit: By the Aseoclated Press, ATHENS, September 21.—"During |my consulship at Salontki I was | bombed by Bulgars and Germans and during my official career I have had many rough experlences with subma- rines and fire, but never in my lite have I seen anything like the Smyrna catastrophe,” s the manner in which George Horton, the American consul | general at Smyrna, in his firat re- marks of the disaster summed up to the Associated Press his experiences in Asfa Minor. Consul General Horton explained | that his official position prevented his commenting on the incidents in Smyrna. . “I cannot glve an interview,” he Arranged for Safety. “When the situation became dan- gerous I, in collaboration with Capt. Arthur J. Hepburn, chief of staff to Admiral Bristol, arranged for the safety of the American colony. I took over a theater in Smyrna and had it guarded by marines. I told the mem- bers of the colony to come to the theater twice daily to recefve the latest bulletins on' the situation. I summoned the principal members of the colony to discuss the general sit- uation. “Thousands of refugees in the d Says U. S. Aid By Near Dr. Nansen Urges Smyrna Disaster Surpass Any in World }War. S es ul GEORGE HORTON. irin~ citv were absolutely hungry and destitute. Rufus W. Lane, an +.vwn . p0ke ubON one occaslon and said that they had not come to the meeting to look out for their own safety, but to look out for those of the “cimpving people. Francls W. Blackley, -one other American, agreed o i save —00 Turkish pounds @ subscription list for the Stanley W. Smith of the in Smyrna gave refugees. of relief im- medfately. The American firms con- tributed the use of their automobiles and trucks. They never saw them again, because they were completely burned up. Representative Americans, members of the Y. M. C. A. and pro- fessors of the American College or- ganized a central committee. Is Needed East Christians Co-operation With Greek Soldiers . Reported Seized By French Force By the Assoclated Press. ATHENS, September 21.—According to inforfmation received in official circles, French naval units occupled Mudania, on the S8ea of Marmora, and insisted upon the surrender of several regiments of Greek troops who were trying to gain the sea.for embarka- tion homeward after their défeat by the Turks. The report has caused excitement in Greek circles. Mudania {s within the neutral zone of the Dardanelles. ATMERCY OF TURK Survivors Destitute, Aban- doned on Quay by Allied Warships. U. S. DESTROYERS AIDING Human Bodies Burning in City. Cholera and Smallpox " Now Feared. By the Associated Press. SMYRNA, September 21.—Although eight days have passed since fire obliterated Smyrna, 75,000 survivors re- main exposed on the quay, destitute, distracted and abandoned. No allled vessel has offered to salvage this last wreckage of human life in the great- est disaster in Asia's history. Nearly a dozen warships remain in the harbor, but none show a disposl- tion to aid the wretched popula- tion, except the American destroyers. Deportations continue, and Turkish soldiers are beginning to carry off the Greek and Armenian girls, leav- ing their parents in a frantic state. Smoke From Bodies. Sporadic shooting and thefts con- tinue. Smoke is still emerging from the ruins. The Turkish authorities explain that this is due to the burn- ing of human bodies. Dr. Wilfred Post of New York, medical director 5000 IN SMYRNA | BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Cable_to The Star and Chi D1 B bl e s, Sasneo Dty CONSTANTINOPLE, September 21—The Turkish governor at Tchanak, on the Aslatic side of the Dardanelles, announces that guards have reached -the neutral zone and occupied the villages of Biramitch, Esine and Alvadjik. In order to prevent any possible surprise the British commander- in-chief in Constantinople, Gen. Harrington, has ordered that the ferryboat service between the Eu- AMERICANS SURE TURKS USED TORCH Eyewitnesses Say Flames Were Started in Armenian Quarter by Kemalists. 300,000 ESCAPED BLAZE Turks Reach Neutral Zone; “..Occupy-3 Villages in Advance armed. British. gunboats are patrolling the Bosphorus day and night. ::llbnau are allowed to cross to o connecting the Turkish and ropean quarters in Constantinople is again closed to traffic after sun- | orDERED T0 WASHINGTON. |- . Ensign Lorenzo L. Semple of the 01 mun Holland has 920 mil. ANERIANS SAVED AOMRAC EPORTS All American citizens known to be in or about Smyrna, except Consul Barg and two women named ‘Blackler, havé been tuken aboard American destroyers in the harbor, according to a messa from the destroyer Edsall, dated Scp- tember 17, and received at the State e partment yesterday through Rear A miral Bristol at Constantinople. T o dispatch added, however, that additior sl Americans were “coming in every d. four not previously reported having peared on the day the mesage was sen: The message from the destroyer s il the fire was still burning in Smyrna o+ the 17th, but that it was not considerc( dangerous. Disorders were still prev lent. Relief work was said to have beew again orzanized at Smyrna, Turks “furnishing hardtack extent.” Abo; 0,000 refugees, pre- sumably Greeks, were gathered in U Topenn and Asiatic shores shail SR BT cease between sunset and sunrise A message from Ambassador Har- frafc between Constantinople l\‘.,v at London, said the British gov- and Black sea ports has been com- |ecrnment had directed the board of pletely suspended. A small de- |trade to have a large tonnage in shijps tachment of Turkish naval officers ¥ for trunsportation of refugec and marfnes forming a guard for |from Smyrna. but that refusal the navy department has been dis- | Ken rmit Greek hips to en- ter sultation with delaying operations there - pending con- his or government wa No Ambassador Harvey also sald tht the British government had taken with the Greek government the ques- tion of distributing the refugees from Smyrna now ir ce, and that the British nt_probably would mak prant to cover this wor European side. The bridge Eu- governn cures of relef for ugces were discuseed 11 Harding today by Rep- Navy, attached to the battleship Ar- |rese o Madden, republican, 11- kansas, has been ordered to this city | uiriman of the House = for duty in the office of naval com- | propriations committee, but it was that pending _reces artment of the requested repc from Admiral Bristol on rellef pl understood held ications, Navy Department. —_—— of canals. You’'ll Be Envied —for the handsomeness of your tea table if it's kept immaculate by a PLATE GLASS TOP. We cut GLASS TABLE, BUFFET AND BUREAU them so they fit perfectly, and much of their value lies in the fit. Prices are very reasonable. Refugees on Quay Spared Wh.en Wind Died Down, Say Americans. Britain in. Opposing Turk—Suggests America Should Join League. your views on of the Near East Rellef, has urged the Turks to bury their dead. in order to prevent pestilence. 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Clari-Filter is a system that washes the CLEANSING FLUID with the clothes so that the “dirt” is drained off continuously. The Fluid is always GONE! 1YY wum W Phone FISHER # moved—EVERY BIT OF DIRT 1S M. 1507 the Cleaner 10169thSt. . NW. 7099thSt. “We Call ”—* We Deliver” / ESTABLSHID SINCE 1888 BY EDGAR ANSELL MOWRER. By Cable to The Star.and Chicago Daily News. - Copyright, 1 GENEVA, September 20.—While the princinal nowers are seeking to reach ¥ an agreement on the mnear eastern problem which will not destroy British prestige in- the .orient, the question of Chris- tian minorities may soon be set- tied by the violent elimination of those -” minorities. Yact ‘which caused -Dr. Fridtjof Nan- sen ‘to ask the league of nations on its own initia- tive to mediate a peace which alone = % can save those = = [T P e jminorities. The propesal”Mus been {referred. to a -political -committee. Bishop James Cannon. jf., represent- n the Federal Council of Christian {Churches in America and the advisory ommittee of the Near East Relief, |passed through Geneva Monday on his |way to Constantinople. consider that the league might well offer mediation.” said Bishop Cannon before his departure Monday {night, “but personally I believe that bsolutely mothing can be expected ifrom the Turks. The only solution is |to leave the Turks in Anatolia, ex- iclude them from Europe and then re- !move the entire Armenian and Greek |Christian_populations. to, some other {country. This work has already been {done in part and séme of the Arme- { nians &re under bolshevist prot i Kemal's Strength Doubted. ! “The Unlted States should Join Great iBritain in an effort to form a solid Ifront for the protection of Christian == 'minorities. ‘Tt would be much easier ZE!to act together if the United States |belonged to the league. Lurope has {much to learn in the way of relief work. Few persons realize that the Near Eastern Relief organization {raised in the last four years $60,000,- 1000 for its operations. The American {people demand absolutely that the iChristians shall not be abandoned to {Turkish - fury.” 3 e expressed here | whether the means suggested by i Great Britain are directed entirely in | favor of the Christian minorities_and not in favor of saving British prestige by an act of tardy firmness. Meanwhile the mass emigration of Christians continues and the situa- n of those remaining is precarious. rkish persecutions In the past have e Much doubt s t Tuj 2 had_a largely political basis. British Laughed At Kemalist and HeSignaled War By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 21.—Ali Fethi Bey, a Kemalist envoy to western European governments, is the man | who gave the signal for the attack upon Greece, according to semi-of- {ficial information received in Paris. Fethi Bey was in London endeavoring to- see: Lloyd George to propose a peace. He was-refused an audience and was referred to.the chief of the bureau of the near eastern affairs, it was said. The British foreign office {is described by. the Kemalist envoy &8s having Jaughed ‘when_he suggested that_unless peace could be arranged quickly, the Kemalists would turn the Greeks out of Asia Minor. The Kemalist diplomat then rose, and told the British officials soberly: “I am sorry that you have laughed. Turkey has lost two millions of her people by war and there are too many orphans for us to join in the laughin at the idea of another war. I feel very sad.” 3 Fethi Bey then sent his cipher mes- sage to Mustapha Kemal Pasha, sayink that nothing could be done with the | British government toward peace and [that the offensive need wait no longer, for he had exhausted every, effort. WOULD END HOUSE ROWS. Bill Would Have: Contests Over Seats Settled in Courts. Reference.'of House eontested elec- |tion cases. to United States cirouit court Y. appeals ‘for - consideration and primary decision, reserving the House final decision, was proposed in a.Dill introduced yesterday by Repre- sentative Moore, democrat, Virginia. iSuch a practice, Mr.. Moore said in a statement he subsequently issued, now prevails in the English house iof commons, and would free considerx: tion of election contests of partisam- 00000 ship. Turks have found that each recogni- tlon of minority Fights has been fol- lowed by the amputation of thelr em- plre. Once the Turks are assured that the Christian minority does not con- stitute a political danger they may treat them better. To defy the Turks mav mean the precipitation of a gen- eral massacr Tne ailies talk and bluster. Kemal Pasha controls Asia Minor. It would e better to protect the minorities than to attempt a mass transfer to a for away country. The Armenians today are protected only by the bolshev The first ef- fect of an allied attack on Kemal, re- fusal to recognize his victory or the continued expression of hostile senti ments will be to throw the Turks Back into the waiting arms of the Russians, thus imperiling mains of the Armenian nation. This demunds the stoppaze of hostilities and referring the knotty ques Thrace and the e stantinople to a has an-advantage over an ordinary peace council, which makes it difficult 3 i outweigh present wisdom. t its solution is collective € [nBistence on na- race, which the Turks ent to become Greek, and the Balkan states w sent to remadn Twrkish, might be an autonomous neutral state under the league of: nations and thus be with- drawn from internatlonal competition. Delcgates represénting some of the big statés express doubts as to the | willingness of their zovernments to intrust the eague with a problem of this gravity or the willingness of | Kemal Pasha to accept league media- | tion. This last other Asiatic and Mohammedan delegations affirm. An American Appeal. Tt is possible that an American ap- peal to the principal European gov- ernments to obtain immediate pro- tection -for the Christian minorities { by the conclusion of an armistice | through the. machinery of the league | #nd the subsequent settlement of ter- j ritorial questions by the council on & basis acceptable to the Turks might produce results, especially it Paris and London ‘remain unable to agree on a basis for action, _ A The alternative. an attempt to bully | or coerce the Turks, offers such a palling possibilities of an outbreak throughout the Mohammedan world, the massacre of Jews and the de- struction of their homes in -Palestine, continued bloody warfare with ‘and extermination of the Greeks in Ana-|{ folla. and the probable renewal of ( the Turkish-bolshevist alliance, with the disappearance of the Armenian #nation,’ that it can hardly be . son: idered serjously. September circles here announced that Dr. Alex- ander MacLachlan of Kingston, Ont., president of the International Col- lege at Smyrna, and an American sallor were stripped and thrashed by AMERICAN SAILOR ATHENS, 21.—Official | the so-called frregular Turkish sol- orting a ‘cable ‘from Dr. MacLach- IS STRIPPED AND dlers at Smyrna. The doctor was bad- an. states that he and his family are [} . BEATEN BY TURKS ly injured. (A Boston dispatch re- safe at Malta.) SRR | PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent. on shares maturing in 4§ or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturity. Assets More Than $8,000,000 Surplus More Than $800,000 Corner 17th and E Sts. NW. JAMES BERRY, Presideat ated $2i { post ‘Nixon, Dr. and smallpox. Interviewed by the Associated Press today, Dr. Post said: ‘It 'ls regretable that the allled ships did not do more in salvaging human life. The work of all the veseels on the night of the fire was magnificent, but on the succeeding days, when the impulse of the great disaster disappeared. there was a lull in their @nergy and spirit. Corpres Block Streets. | “If we had kept up the work there would now be no evacuatfon problem and thousands would have been saved. who might, otherwise, be de- ported or killed. Even before the fire there was indiscriminate killing and looting. There are so many bodles in the streets that 1 had, on one occasion, to alight from my auto- mobile to lift the corpses out of the path of the car. words can de- scribe the fire as a spectacle, “It Thmerlane.’ It was so vast and com- plete that it had every appearafice of being malevolently planned in ad- vance, —_— PROTEST HOLDS UP COLORED BEACH JOB Comnfittee Asks War: :Deplrtmeit * to'Reconsider Potomac River 3 Location. - Vigorous protests have been made to the War Department against the establishment of the colored bathing beach. for which Congress appropri- 5,000, on Columbus Island, op: the agricultural experimental on the Arlington reservation. Sherrill, the engineer officer in of public buildings and Col. charge grounds, had selected a small area at the eastern end of the island: as_the site of the bathing peach. Buildihg operations were started durjng" the summer, but discontinued betause of the opposition of colored men and women. A committee, oconsisting of R. M. Smmet Scott, Drii Craed Chil Rev. Emory Smith and Mrs® Terrell, had a conference with Secte- Y|tary Weeks at the War Department yesterday afternoon on the subject. 'hey represented “that Columbia Is- land was practically inaccessible and otherwise unsuitable for the purpose. Outside of its distance ffom this city, it was stated that it could be utilized only by the operation of a ferry from the Virginia shore. Tt was suggested by the committes that in view of the long water front of the city and the large area of the tidal basin, it ought not to be adif- ficult to find & more Suitable place for the beach than the Virginia sho Secretary Weeks, who has final jur n full consideration and see th. ;. the colored people were protetted in their rights in the matter. —_— If he's married you can’t tell wheth- er he smokes a pipe because he is an out-door man, or {8 an out-door man because he smokes a pipe.—Steuben- | ville (Ohio) Herald Sta S0 50 S0 S0 S0 S Soe S0 S0 S0 S0 S0 S0 S0 S0 So Sm So See Soe e See 3 oo R YYYYTYYIY AR American evewitnesses of the Smyrna cates that the Turks willtully started 433223343428444002082220228 THERE is ample proof of their worth in the rugged- ness of their materials; in the firmaess of ehicir sewing, and in their smare, stalwart appearance, "Priced at $5 and $6 ICHS etatTenth $24382222228282222 I By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 21.— The American torpedo boat destroyer Simpson has arrived here, bringing more fire. All agree that the flames originated in the Armenian quarter of‘the city and assert that the evidence strongly indi- the fire, The Kemalists' hatred for the Ar- menians is much more intense than for ORDER RADIATOR ENAMEL, FLOOR FINISHES AND INSIDE “BRIGHTENERS” OF ALL KINDS AT SPECIALLY LOW PRICES. HUGH REILLY CO. T T T S O S P S R TR 5 PAINTS, OILS, G Phone Main 1703 the Greeks, these observers explain, and they belleve the Turks determined to exterminate the Armenians at the mo- ment of their invasion. After the fire had progressed for a ;ew h&ur- lhrel wind shifted suddenly Tom the north to the sou Spreadin the flames to the mrup‘::n ’qumer‘. which was soon lai{d waste and the ;l‘li‘l;km it is aid, then reallzed their mis- ake. Turks Regretted Fire. The Americans declare the Kemalists would not have dreamed of destroying the whole city, for the possession of which they had spent years of toil, un- numbered lives and much mongy, but it was palpable, they aver, that the Turks were bent upon wreaking vengeance on the Armenians for their alleged r- ticipation in the events of 1919, whic! led to the death of many Turks, American sailors on patrol duty de- clare they saw Turkish soldiers set. ting houses afire and applying torches to heaps of rubbish in the streets. Officers aboard the American de- strover express the opinlon that the 300,000 hysterical men, women and children who rushed to the quay when the fire was at {ts height wouid have ‘ been burned alive if the wind had not abated. They also believe that the use of dynamite, or éven water, would have checked the flames, but nelther was at hand. Smyrna had no fire de- partment Just before the fire began, it 15 sald, Turkfkh soldlers . terrorized lafge groups of 'Christians’ by whetting their bayonets and drawing their hands in :pmntomine acros: r the-refugees. ‘ PRESIDENT ASKS' RELIEF FOR AMERICAN REFUGEES An emergency appropriation’ of $200,000 for-relief of American ‘refu- gees in the near east was: recom- mended to the Senate yesterday aft- erncon by President Harding after receipt of an official estimate fr the State Department that 1,000 Americans were in pressing need of assistance. “It i{s very apparent that we have an obligatioh.te 4fford’ rellef,” the President said in his letter to Chair- man Warren of the Senate appropria- tiohs committee, adding - that the need could not be met by the private funds -of American relfef organiza- | tions. Senate leaders plan to add ihe,iun‘l to the pending deficiency appropria. tion bill. 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