The New York herald., 1922-09-06
Allied Generals See Serious
Situation and Decide to
Land Troops.
ATHENS IN GREAT UNREST
Greeks Claim Cavalry Victory
ALLIES Striving to Ar
range Armistice.

| CoNsTANTINoPLE, Sept. 5 ASSOCIATED
Press) The telegraph lines between
Angora and Constantinople resumed
operations to-day. Fevzi Pasha, chief
Of the Turk nationalist general staff,
sent the following message to the pop
ulation of Constantnople:
I'VE have vanquished the enemy
and are hotly pursuing him. We will
smash him completely within the next
| few days"
! The Turkish cavalry is worrying
the Greek rear guards, with whom
they have renewed contact on the rail-
road between Ala-shehr and Aidin,
(which district forms the principal OBJ
jective of the Turks. The Turkish ex-
treme southern wing, advancing from
Chivril along the railway, may be the
first to reach the shores of the Aegean
Sea.
If the Turkish report that the occu-
patton of Sinai is true, the railroad
from Soma to Panderta is seriously
threatened.
p All JTteh idNt bCci plt@iNa "
| Smyrna. The Greek Government has
commandeered the Themistocles. the
King Alexander and other transatlantic
| liners.
Three ships with refugees arrived last
right from Mudania. The refugees as
| serted that the invasion OF the Turks
was less feared than the misbehavior of
the demorallzed Greek troops.
| NfuSx VuuI AIlfed TrOOnN.
The allied generals met to-day to con-
sicer the military situa tion and unan-
! imousiy agreed to notify their govern
/ Elents OF the seriousness or the situa-
| tion.
! Constantinople will be unable to offer
| further hospitality to refugees from Asia
Minor.
Athens reports received here say there
| is panic In Smyrna and Brusa, due
to the invasion of refugees. They VIII
be transferred to Piraeus.
The Allies appear 20 DE agreed that
II IA necessary for them to land naval
/ and infantry forces in Asiatic Turkey
| FOR the protection Of their nationals and
! to maintain order
There is no indication that the Turks
will permit the Greeks time for breath
ing spell. An order OF the day issued
by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, after con-
graduating the Turkish army on Its
spirit and sacrifices. concludes as follows.
I'VE must face other battles. You
will show the traditional endurance and
bravery in which the nation takes pride.
| Your next move must be smyrna
! With the arrival of reinforcements
from Greece the Greeks are confident
that they Will be able TO dispute the
advance Of the Turks.
Say Turkish Cavalry Defeated.
A Turkish cavalry division has met
disaster near the Bilejik-B -Brusa front.
Caught between, two Greek forces, IL
was totally wiped out.
The Turks, made careless by their
successes. says a Greek dispatch. did
not reckon with the Greek Third Army
Corps, which, as previously reported.
had rotreated unhampered In the direc-
ton of Brusa. This corps, extremely
we'll led. was attacked by a division
OF Turkish cavalry west Of Biejik. The
division was driven between the Greek
wings and completely annihilated.
The Greek military mission here made
public to-day the following official com
munication:
The northern group reportA a great
victory for our army. The enemy made
an attack. which was repulsed. The
Turks retreated in disorder with great
/ losses.
THE military situation has improved
after the junction of all the corps I'm the
southern group under Generals Tricoupis,
Dioyenis and Dimarias."
Ala Shehr elghty-three miles east OF
Smyrna. has not yet been taken. The
Turkish cavalry is pressing the Greek
rearguard. but the pressure Is slowing
down and the advance on Smyrna begins
/ to be more difficult"
Many rumors were in circulation here
| to-day concerning the latest develop
! ments in Athens IL was reported that
the venizelist newspapers announced this
morning the resignation OF the Greek
| Cabinet and the formation OF a new
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