Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-10
The PURPOSE and Progress
of the Latest F1;nq IN War

VT is like old times, this reading of bulle-
| l tins from the battle front. battle front
there is and a stormful one, notwith-
standing that the guns of Flanders have been
silent these many months and the treaty OF
peace accepted by every capital of Europe.
War has broken out again.
The Turkish Nationalist, under the fiery
and resourceful leadership of Mustapha
Renal Pasha months ago defed the terms
of the Versailles settlement, to which the
Government at Constantinople bowed, and
brought about in Asia Minor a situation that
gave the Allied Council anxious concern
The insurgents not only made reimbursement
and reconstruction in Anatola next to impos-
sible, but also threatened to raise, soon or
late, storm against Constantinople itself.
Countervailing measures of a vigorous ma
ture were needful-imperatively so. But
just what should they be- and to whose exc
cution entrusted? After much indecison
and fumbling the Entente-that is to say,
France, Britain and Italy-took the line of
| action which, from the outset, seemed to
most observers the obviously right one: they
assigned the business of subduing Kemal and
his menacing cohorts to Greece.
1t was an adventure which the mistress of
the Aegean heartily welcomed and for which
she was we'll circumstanced and prepared
On June the 22d last she launched upon her
commission, with forecast from Premier
Venizelos that three weeks would see it
Ill
may have been, the campaign certainly has
moved with speed and effectiveness. It's
flrst objective, which now may be considered
almost, II not altogether, attained, was to
clear northern and western Asia Minor of
the Turkish revolutionst forces and so re-
move the menace to Constant inopIe This ac-
complished the enforcement and administra-
ton OF the treaty's terms for that Quarter
or the East will be greatly simplifed
TIL initial stroke of the Greeks was to eff
feet union of their forces dispatched from
Athens and those sent up from Smyrna. The
former, having landed at Panderma on the
Sea of Marmora, moved on a southwesterly
line, while the former pressed northward
Between these contingents, comprising thir-
teen army divisions, lay the enemy's coun-
try, the pivotal point of which was the town
of Baliserki. There the Turkish Nationalist
mustered for their strongest stand, while the
Hellenic forces drew together. The outcome
is described in the official report to Athens
as "a crushing defeat for Mustapha Kemals
army, of which "only scattered remnants sue
ceeded in fleeing to Brusa."
Brusa thus becomes the next Greek OH
Jective. That it will be taken is considered
altogether likely; in which event the enemy
VIII be driven into the country's rugged in
terror and reduced to guerrilla warfare To
what length or with what vigor the Greeks
as representatives of the Powers and of ciyili-
cation, would pursue him thither is doubtful
HAVING put an end to the threat against Con-
stantlnople and having gained control of the
railway TO Bagdad, they probably will rest
content, leaving Kemals cause to die of in
anition. Certainly the achievement of those
two ends will be of capital service in tho
pacification of the Near East and will add
much to both the security and renown y,
Greater Helas. -