The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-26
BRITISH HURI.
SHELLS into
TURKS POSTS
Sultan S Government May Join
Nationalists and Rise
Against Peace Terms, Is
Feeling.
GREEKS ARE ADVANCING

LONDON, June 26-Britisri war
ships at Anchor before the town of
Ismid, Asia Minor have violently bonn
barded the Turkish line stretched
around that place, and have irkiicted
heavy losses, it being estimated that
1000 Turks have been killed, accord
ing to an Exchange Telegraph COM
pany dispatch from Athens.
Reports from Immid, the message
states, indicate that violent lighting
continues there. Three shells f.som ar
tillery fired by Turkish natiohalists
under the command OF Mnstapha
Kemal Pasha, have fallen in the town
and have caused damage.
Greek forces stationed in the Smyr-
ma district are advancing in four direc-
1lons into Asia minor, according to
statement made public here t)day by
the Greek legation quoting an official
communique given out in Athens
Thursday.
The towns of Soma, Perativi, Mend
elhora and Chaoush-Datkicak have
been taken by the Greeks.
Lose Fl Dead
Soma is a town northeast of Smyrna
approximately 60 miles and Mendel-
hora is about 70 miles straight east Of
Smyrna. The other two places taken
by the Greeks are not shown on avail
able maps.
PARIS, June 26.-Turkey's peace
delegation was ready this morning to
submit that country's reply to the
terms of the treaty presented by the
allied nations. This reply was to have
been transmitted on June II, but an
extension of time amounting to is
days was granted on June Z.
Sutton is Acting RecaIcitrant.
Advices from Constantinople would
appear to reflect a disposition on the
part of the Sultan's government to
adopt the view of the Turkish nation
alists, who have insisted that any
treaty which deprives Turkey Of
Smyrna, eastern Thrace and Adria-
nople, could not be signed.
1t Is said that the territorial limits
fixed for the Armenian republic would
be accepted with the provisions that
the Armenian port of entry on the
Black Sea must be outside of Turkish
Jurisdiction and that Turkey receive
compensation for districts Topped off
the Ottoman empire in the operation
of forming the new republic. lnstruc-
tions to this effect are said to have
been sent to the Turkish delegates
here.
Turkish nationalist forces are as
suming an aggressive attitude along
the eastern shore of the Sea of Mar
mora and the Dardanelles, but have
been forced to fall back before the
advance Of Greek troops in the Smyr-
ma hinterland.
May Drive Against Smyrna.
Should the Turkish protest against
the cession of Smyrna to Greece be
futile, however, it is believed the ma
tionalists will concentrate their armies
for a drive against that city,
They have forces at strategic points
in western Asia Minor, and seem to
be in a position to throw heavy col
umns into an advance intended to
oust the Greeks from the area they
now hold.
Dispatches from India indicate con-
siderable unrest among the Moslems
of that country regarding the Turkish
situation.
Says Allies Are On Top.
Allied nations are masters of the
situation in the near east as else
where and. if incomplete harmony can
employ all the forces at their disposal
to carry their policies which are
"soberly proportioned to their inter
ests," said Marshal Foch in an inter
view today.
"The allied position in the near
east" the marshal declared, lis that
of liability company, limited, in
which no shareholder may say 1t was
his capt." (which made the company's
operations successful. The Greek
army is one of our assets and we are
using 1t in the corporate interest"
Discussing German disarmame ent,
he asserted this matter was not the
destruction of 1900 cannon, but the
overcoming Of the hostile and mill
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