Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1922, Page 4

STARVING REFUGEE HURLSELVES S Radio Reports From Greek Islands Show Thousands Are Facing Death. SITUATION IS DESPERATE Sufferers Number 400,600—Bev- olution Plunges Administration Into Chaos. to the Ame jean embassy and reports received by the A 1 Press from Smyrna, Saloniki. Rodosto and the islands of Mitylene and Chios show that thou- sands of refugees are in danger of perishing if assistance does not ar- rive promptly Conservative number of suff the The ites place t 400,000, Greek revolut sulted in utter administrative aos and al complete breakdown of all the normal processes of life. A message from the American relief workers on the Island of Mitylene shys: No Bread on Inland. ‘wThe situation is desperate. Ref- ugees. crazed by hunger, are throw- ing themselves into the sea. There is no bread on the island. Rush 800 tons of flour immediately. Three Americans are struggling to look after 150,000 refugees. Thirty thou- sana more are expected today.” e from Com- mandor Ha 1 of the Amer- at Smyrna, destroye 000 refugees 71,000, B are in the im: s from Rodosto say the Greek s there number 10,000, that they are undisciplined and that the popula- tion is in consternation at the prospect of a Turkish invasion. Fifty thousand refugees have bee emoved to the = terior villag 000 remain. face a gra food shortage, coupl with an outbreak of tvpheid fever, ow- ing to the polluted water supply. Thousands Leaving City, left the city Thousands have for Kavala and Saloniki. Two hospitals have been opened in Rodosto, but their meager accommoda- tions are insufficient and there is a pressing need for medicines. At Saloniki the conditions are de- plorable. The city has been in ruins since the great fire 18 and affords little more shelter than i The Joeal Greek administration inability to cope with the tremendous problem presented by the presence of more than 100,600 fugees. Additional 1 rriving here i T, steamships h. Manhattan dand Casey bringing in a total of 15,000 in the last two days. American reiief workers are vying with the British officers and civilians in assisting 1o restore calm and alleviating the misery of the refugees. The American relief officials fear that the $200,000 appropriated by Congress and the £30.000 provided by Great Britain will be mholly inadequate to feed the sufferers and re-establish them in_homes. - The announcement, that the American Navy Department is sending a squadran fof_twelve destroyers to reinforce the Jeight destroyers now in the near east was the most welcome news received by the Americans here since the be- ginning of the present anxious situation. The warships will not_only provide additional protection for American citi- s and property, but also cnable Rear tol to_maintain_ships for longer periods at Robosto, the islands of Mitylene and Chios and other refu- gee centers. and to establish better ‘commun CAVADANS AROLS T0 BATILE TURKS Many Americans Who Served With Corps in Great War Also ‘Want to Go. Special Dispatch to The Star. OTTAWA, Ont, September 29.— Canadians in the United States and American citizens who have either served with the Canadian corps in the great war, or are anxious to do s0 in the Turkish fracas, continue sending in applications to the militia departments. Some offers include whole compamies or regiments, while there are many from volunteers. In- dividual replies are being sent from Ottawa in cach case. George Alexander is here and will confer with cabinet nlinisters Mon- day with the object of asking the Canadian government to use its ir- fluence with ‘the British government to have passports issued to relatives of Armenian residents in Canada to enable them to lcave Constantinople. Alexander represents Armenian re: dents of western Ontario, - many of whom have relatives in the near east who are eager to get away fearing massacres. The proposal is bring them to Canada, but m. enable them to make their w Greece, Rumania r some other try. Mr. Alexand that whil many of th people have escaped from the Turks to Constantinople none of tiem is being allowed to leave Constantinople. Premier King's cabinet is keeping in close touch with London. No call for a special parliamentary session has yet been made, but members of the cabinet who are in and near Ot- tawa have been notified to hold them- selves in readiness for an emergency summons. Ottawa inclines to the belief of Lon- don that a clash is possible at any moment. Should there be such an oc- currence, parliament, it is believed, will be summoned immediately for an’ emergency session to decide as to Canada’s stand in the matter of send- ing a contingent of tropos. ASK ACTION IN TURKEY. Baptist Petition to President Pro- tests Against Massacres. A, delegation of Baptists headed by Frederick E. Taylor of Indianapolis, Ind., presented to President Harding Thursday aSternwn resolutions pro- testing against massacre of Armenians by Turks and urging the United States government to co-operate with European powers in protecting Christian peoples fn the near east. These resolutions were adopted by the Northern Baptist convention held in_Indianapolis last June. Besides Mr. Taylor those in the dele- tion were Rev. W. S. Abernethy, pastor of Cavalry Baptist Church of this city; Frank Goodchild, Carter H. Jomes, John Moore, J. K. Wilcox 200, 5 Ko BaLHB, oo G P xpect more ships to- | GREEK REFUGEES AND: TROOPS FLEE FROM SMYRN GUENING. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. TO ESCAPE ONRUSH OF VICTORIOUS TURKISH TROOPS nd the breaking warship refu VENIZELOS ACCEPTS TASK FOR GREECE Will Defend Interests. of Rev- olutionary Committee Government. LONDON protect ARRIVES IN Decision Is Surprise to French Be- - cause of 0dds With Greece Over Thrace. By the Associated Press, PARIS, September 30.—M. Venizelos last night telegraphed to Athens acceptance of the invitation extended by the revolutionary committee to take up the task of defending Greece's interests in the allied capitals. Shortly after sending the messagé he. left for Longon, where he hapes to see Viscount Curzon, British foreign secretary, some time today. .M. Venizelos' reply to the revolu- tionary committee thanked the new government warmly for its confidence in him, and put him on record as agreeing to undertake the task of de- fending the political program of the present Greek government. His de- cision immediately to align himself with the revolutionary government is believed to be based upon Teports sent him from Athens by his former. asso- fice had thought that under the cir- cumstances he was unlikely to accept for the present. It was felt in political circles here that the allied position on the return of Thrace to the Turks would make it impossible for him to comply, as the avowed aim of the Greek revolu- tionists is to retaim Thrace. WILL STAY IN LONDON. Refuses to Comment Regarding .Return to Athens. By the Associated Press, | LONDON, September 30.—Former Premier Venizelos of Greece has ar. rived in London from Paris and de clares his intention of remaining here for several weeks with the ex- ception of such short trips to France {as may be necessary. | Upon his arrival he said his visit was connected with “private affairs” and declared it was quite untrue he had been asked to visit the foreign office. Alluding to his possible return to Athens. he refused to comment fur- ther than to remark: “You already know of the communi- cation I have received from the com- mittee (the revolutionary ~commit- tee in charge of the Greek govern- ment). 2 SEEK CORN FOR ORPHANS. CHICAGO, September 30. — Middle west farmers will be asked for dona- | tions of corn for the relief of orphana in the near east‘orphanages, it was decided at.a reliel meeting here. A half million children are being fed and clothéd daily. speakers said. At Alexandropol 18,600 erphans are housed and fed, Miss Mary Cushman, | recently returned from . Constanti- nople, said. President T e ciates, as even the French foreign of- | . H. L. Offutt, Jr, Open a savings account (a dollar Ceshter will do,it here)—persistently and W. P. Lipscomb consistently add to. it—and you'll C. J. Gockeler N. L. Sansbury Viee Presidents “At Your Service” n country, taken juxt hefore the occupation of Smyrnu by the victoriouys af the dixastrous fire which practically leveled this important eom-em‘:‘l hows remnants of the shattered Greek army and panic-stricken refugees crowding back to the homeland. Looking. out into the harbor, st right, can be seen a eex and ferry them from Smyrna. Chanak Eurepe’s Back Door For Invaders Since 480 B. C. A few miles farther to the southeast rises Mount Ida, where gods commune: and from where flowed the famous Scamander to water the plains of Troy. EX-KING HAS FUNDS. 100,000,000 Gold Francs Invested Translation often spoils romance.|its name. Chanak, the strategio point on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles which has figured in the headlines ibr. weeks after the fall of Smyrna as a sort of threatened British Thermoplae, means “pots”—scullery ware—ac- cording to a bulletin’ dealing with the region issued by the National Geographic Society. . by Constantine. “But though it has a bumdram| Zite me” continues the - buHetdng | BY the Asociated Press, : “Chanak—or Tehunak-Kalées=and | PARIS, September 30.—King Coo- its neighborhood have more than |S:antine is in no danger of belng re- duced to the penury which embittered the last days of former Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary, according to Greek once been the stage for acts which have radically molded the world's history, and cven the world's litera- | Jircles in. Parie, ture. Barely twenty miles to the| It is asserted that Constantine tock south rose Troy, to furnis ins])im-lbmcautlons agalnst this loug ago, and tion alike to Homer and his myriad | has 10,000,000 gold francs in safe in- vestments, deposited partly ia New of readel Within a stone's Lot Chanak, Xerxge, i Ahro% | York, Brasil and Switzerland. In addi- i his thousands of Persians across the | tion, as soon as the situation in Gresse rdanelles on a bridge of boats in became disquieting, the magnificent the first formidable editiol 1 | Jewels of Queen Sophie and the roval Aslatics into Europe household plate were shipped to Zurich, {records. "At the same spot a cen- |Switzerland, in charge of a trusted ftury and a halt later Alexander led [friend and safely deposited in the vault : | his” smaller but more highly trainet {©f a bank there. army into Asia on his triumphal con- quest of the world. { Terke Bxtercd tn 1353, BRITAMN STILL AT WAR. ”;‘llTwn.u from Chanal in 1353 that e ¢ Turks crossed to their first foot- hoid in Lurope—a crossing that géwe: Mo Declaration. Nesoasary to Baty hucll'ope a problem x;un has bred wars tle Turks. and massacres and broken treaiies : 2 for more than 500 years. €342 Lg+ the Amocinted Pross, ";Tn%‘:;u flr Marmora, into Whlch4 LONDON, September 30.—In connec. e anelles and the Bospgyus’ # ts cir widem, fontns & bacoior hoiween o] doayfwith veparts c“m:d Codfre and Europe. The roads between the | United States that war had been e« two continents lie across the-two [ elared by Great Britain on TPurkey. 7 | straits at its ends. Constantinpple | it was pointed out that no declara- at the narrowest point of the Bps-|Won of war would be necessary, as porus, is the front door: Chanak,|Peace never has been concluded b where the Dardanellos i8 most con- | iwecn the two countries. Their rel stricted, is the back door. It is nat- | tions are still governed by the terms ural enough, perhaps, that almost-all | of the armistice of 1918. z‘:t [henhmlorio :lnvasions of Eurdpe = rom the east should have been by the back way, and that there again BUYING KEMAL SWORD. today Great Britain should have made |\ CONSTANTINOPLE, September 30. an important stand. —The Turkish population of the city Soler Plexus ot Straits. is raising & fund to purchase t‘fiw‘:r: “Castle after castle, each fortified,|to be made of gold and set wit comes Into view on both the Asiatic| Fubies for Mustapha Kemal Pasha. and the European sides of the Dar- danelles as one steams from the Aegean toward Constantinople. But the narrows opposite Chanak are re- scrved for the castles of castles: The castle of Asia on the right. the castle of Europe on the left. The Chanak fortifications were first constructed in4| 1470 not long after Constantins fell to the Turks. Ever since Chana’ has been a place of importance. In recent decades it has been the point of administration for all the Darda- nelles defenses—the solar plexus of the outer strajts. German artillery experts resided there during the world 2 war and,modernized the fortifications. “Chanak, too, has been the gate- way to Constantinople for shipping. There each of the 12,000 :shipg.that passed, through the Dardarelles in pre-war days was held unt;}s‘ilstnv pers were found to satisfactory, g i o Doa’ none could pass arter mighttair ||( . What'a triumph of Ameri Nearby was anchored an important can manufacturing efficiency unit of the Turkish fleet. it is that the new type 61 In Shadow of Mount Ida. Cadillac, the greatest Cadillac “To the western observer steaming [§ ever produced, has set an up the Dardanelles the roles of Asia|f entirely neqge standard of and Europe seem reversed. 'All the (f motor car values. scenic beauty is on the Asiatic side, where the steep slopes are clad with - beautitul forests. The European side; . . is rugged end largely barrem. & “Of the beauty spots on the Asiatic ne WM &c N | shore few surpass those about Cha- g n Ca Co | nak, where the constricted stream 1138-114p "Connecticut Ave. : suddenly widens out to form at once the Dardanelles’ most striking cape and bay. Barely five miles to the south are the ruins of the ancient city |0t Dardanus, which gives the straft Frankiin 3900-3001 g T R N Lo B e P . (o] —=]c[c—=[o[c——|o]c——=lolc———: sl ——]a[———]0] District National Bank 1406 G Street - K, as they say— “ Self-preservation is the " first law of nature” —Shouldn’t everybody look out. for the future? 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Every offef'ing is new Fall and Winter merchandise of Lansburgh & Brother's high standard of quality at very ‘definite prices: Shop the first day and ‘every day—Farly ing has been allowed to enter unless it has passed the test of definite and worth-while savings to the Preparations for this sale ‘were started months ago; every buyer of this great organization has been dili- gently searching for the un- - usual in merchandise val- ues—has put squarely be- hind this remarkable event every ounce of energy, abil- ity and enthusiasm at his or her command. Al sails are set, full speed ahead Monday; tide and time wait for no man— and with absolute . confi- dence we assure our es- teemed friends and patrons ', -a bargain feast of Anniver- - sary merchandise that " could not possibly be ex- -~ \ celled. ' Not ‘a single article has been permitted to enter into these sales unless it has ‘proven by rigid comparison to measure up to our high standard o_f quality. Noth- public. Briefly Stated, but Important: The sales start Monday morning and continue through Monday, Oct. 9th. First day offerings are always choice; however, we ‘have laid our plans to keep interestat its peak until the finish. - . Every department shares in the first day offerings in a most unusually worth- while manner. Special signs point the way to anniversary oppor- tunities. These are attend! - : 9:15 O’Clock Store Opens at 9:. 0’5 Men- dey=— Mede for ice th your Sales—: the Store.