New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
Turks Flee i'm
Terror Before
Greek Attack
Villages Burned and Inhab.
itants Are Reported Shot
Down by Moslems in
Revenge for the Defeat
Thracc Occupation Near
Nationalist Forces Said To
Be Lacking in Discipline
and Big Gun Equipment

CQNSTANTINOPLE, June 27 (By The
Associated ss).-The Turkish Ma
tioaa,ists under Mustapha Kemal are
ret-eatng is the Ismid region, having
suffered heavy losses. according to dis
pat-aes to the newspapers here. The
Turks h.d in disorder at the first
Greek attack, the advices said.
All Fuad Pasha, former commander
of TIA Turkish goth Army Corps and
one OF the Nationalist commanders, is
abandoning Kandra, near the Black
Sea coast northeast of Ismid.
The Greek steamship Yacinthus has
arrived here, having on board sixty
Nationalist officers captured June %,
and G-sek refugees are arriving from
Kilia and other Black Sea ports and
the interior villages Of the peninsula
between ismid and Constantinople.
They report that the Truks, incensed
by the Ismid and Smyrna fighting, are
burning Greek villages and shooting
down the Greeks.
According to the refugees, this is
but a forerunner Of a general Moslem
attack upon the Greeks. which is ex-
pected when the news generally is cir
culated throughout Anatolia of the
Greek advance and the Turkish casual
ties.
Deportation of Greeks Begun
The Nationalists of Trebizond prov
ince have begun the deportation of
Greeks into the interior, and this prob
ably will be general all along the Black
Sea coast of Anatola.
The Greeks have landed forces at
points along the Gulf of Saros. They
will land additional troops at Rodosto
and will soon begin their movement
from occidental into oriental Thrace.
The Turks are being evacuated from
the shores of the Bosporus to make
shipping safe from snipers, and it is
expected that a state of siege will be
declared at Constantinople in order to
give the Entente closer control of the
civil population in this city.
In Greek army circles it is expected
that the campaign will not last more
than three weeks, although the proba-
bility Of the retreat Of the Nationalists
into the hills and their wagng guerilla
warfare for an indefinite time is recog-
nized. Greek officials say the Nation
allst forces are undiSclplined and
poorly equipped with artillery to offer
effective resistance to the Greeks.
kemal Backs Sultan on Peace
Mustapha Kemal has issued a man
date declaring that the French have
recognized the Nationalists as the real
government of Turkey. The National
ist leader has approved the Sutan's
reply to the peace terms offered by
the Allies. He refuses absolutely to
surrender Smyrna and Thrace to the
Creeks ~@
The Turkish Cabinet to-day framed
a protest 10 the Entente against the
premature occupation OF Anatoha
while the treaty was pending. Appar-
emily, however, the Entente holds that
state of war exists, as representa-
tives Of the British and French high
commissioners visited the Sublime
Porte and announced that they would
begin putting the treaty terms into
effect promptly. The Italians did not
participate, and it is reported in Con-
stantinople that they will, for the
present at least, take no part in the
enforcement OF the treaty.