The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-15

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Smyrna has been completely wrecked
by the conflagration which has been
raging here for the past two days, ac-
cording to information from authentic
sources, reaching here. Thousands of
persons are believed to have perished
LONDON, Sept. Is The British
fleet has been instructed to allow no
Turkish troops to cross from Asia to
Europe, it was officially announced
thisevening.
LONDON. Sept 15.-From 1000 to
1000 Christians had been massacred
in Smyrna by the Turks before the
fire which swept the Armenian and
other quarters of the Asia Minor sea-
port, recently evacuated by the Greek
army. it is charged in semi-official
and other Greek messages from Ath-
ems received here today.
Among the Turkish outrages was
the carrying off of many girl pupils
of the American Girls college, it is
alleged.
The Greek belief is that the fire
was set by the Turks to conceal the
traces of their alleged misdeeds
A considerable share of the prop
erty loss from the fire, the total of
which is estimated in Greek quarters
at one billion france (about $4,000, 600
at present exchange rate for the
French franc) fell upon American
firms.
MALTA, Sept. 15.-Hundreds Of
bodies of victims of the Turkish mas
sacre in Smyrna were lying in the
streets of the city when the British
hospital ship Maine left there with
more than 400 refugees on board, it is
stated by Reuters Smyrna correspond
ent, who arrived here on the Maine
today.
LONDON, Sept. 15.-The admiral
commanding the British squadron a.
Smyrna has warned the Turkish au-
thorities in the city that if massacres
are continued the Turkish quarters
will be bonn mbarded, says an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Athens.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 15.-The
Turkish Nationalist army is now with
in 35 miles of Constantinople The
population is in a state of nervous ten
sion and the entire city is rife with
rumors about Mustapha Kemal Pasha's
designs upon the capital
One story is that the Nationalist
commander has sent an ultimatum to
the allied powers demanding the evac-
uation of their forces from the city
so as to prevent the entrance of the
Turkish Nationalist army. Another is
that Nationalist troops have crossed
over to the Gallopoli peninsula from
Chanak, planning to march into
Thrace with the object of taking
Adrianople.
Rodosto and other ports on the Sea
of Marmora are choked with refugees
who are arriving by the tens of thou
sands in an appalling state of misery
Hundreds are dying before they can
be landed. The near east has dis
patched ship load of foodstuffs and
medicines for Rodosto in charge of
| Col. Stephen E. Lowe, of St. Louis.
| Ten thousand refugees have arrived
in the Bosphorus on five vessels and
will be given shelter in the Armenian
churches of the city.
SMYRNA, Sept 15.-The fire which
started in the Armenian quarter OF
Smyrna early yesterday afternoon had
spread early this morning to the Turk
| ish sections of the city, and was max
ing rapid headway.
The entire European section is in
ashes and countless thousands are
homeless. There were hundreds of
casualties among persons who were
caught in the sections where the
flames spread with greatest rapidity
! Fourteen naturalized Americans are
missing but all the American born are
accounted for. Ten of them are in
the suburbs with American and Turk
ish guards.
U. S. Staff Escapes
The American consulate general was
situated in the burned area, Consul
General George Horton and his staff
left as the flames swept toward the
4 building taking with them the official
codes and funds, together with the
most important records and docu-
ments,
An American destroyer sailed for
t Saloniki with 600 refugees and anoth-
er later cleared for Piraeus with 400
persons including some of the consular
staff, members of American benevolent
organizations and business men.
The Turkish troops are making
strenuous efforts to prevent wholesale
looting by bands of irregulars.
Gen. Noureddin Pasha, commander
in chief of the Kemalist forces here,
yesterday urged officials of the Amer
lean committee on relief in the near
east to arrange for the evacuation OF
as many of the Greeks as possible, as
he feared there return to the interior
would mean certain death in reprisal
| for alleged malicious destruction of
Anatolian villages by Greek troops.
The Turkish commanders fear out.
breaks among their own troops. who
are without food Several regiments
posted on the outskirts of the city
: have subsisted on uncooked barley for
the last five days.
LONDON, Sept. 15.-The British
cabinet has been summoned for this,
afternoon with the principal object OF
discussing the near eastern tangle.
Prime Minister Lloyd George came
to London this morning from the coun-
try for preliminary discussions with
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