The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-19
RFFDCEE HORDES FLEE
FROM WAR,RACkED LAND
BALKAN NATIONS, ALREADY
ovERCRoWDED, FRANTIC AS
cwARMS FLOOD BORDERS.
CREEK HUDDLE TO HOMELAND
More Than Million and Half Men
Women and Children Must Move
m Where No One Knows. Great
act Migration Ever Known.

Women and Children Must Move
m Where No One Knows. Great
sst Migration Ever Known.
The greatest migration since the
4vo1kerwanderung" is now in prog
,.s in the Near East. 1t presents
come OF the gravest problems OF re-
r.f adjustment and re-establishment
.rer known in time of peace
IN = conservative estimate the enor-
,ons movement of population involves
human current Of about million
Cooks flowing from Asia Minor into
c,.ece proper and into southern
q Tmace.
ADDER the decision of the conference
u; arsanne recently reached, move
o. De-. 4,ra and southwark into south
en- Thrace, Greece and Macedonia
Millions Must Move On"
This total of about 100000 men,
r,nen and children does not Include:
II Wv several hundred of thousands OF
,,,oerians who, on the theory appar-
.n.lr r,ached by the conference that
.'.,' ;n7oossible for Armenian and Turk
II d we, side by side without doing
.,,S other irreparable harm, must
move on'-where, the conference
does not appear to have any clear IDEA
The inevitable solution OF this mod
.-a nroblem of mass migration that
r.c,Iis the great migration OF history,
rsS conceived by statesmen on all
t,nds within the disturbed area, to be
1 +Ia Tnited States of America, hitherto
tbs greatest absorber of immigrants IN
tbe history OF the world.
Others Leave Macedonia.
Bu+ here the barrier established by
tbe percentage quota intertered with
these calculations.
In addition to these movements
irom Asia-Minor into Europe and
from C0nstantinople westward a
beavv movement, including hundreds
B ii thousands of Bulgarians, is under
way from western Macedonia and
sontbern Thrace into Bulgaria, already
seriously harassed by successive IN
Anxes OF refugees from Macedonia and
Bobrudja :.
The grand total of human beings IN
voIved in this mass movement must
smount TO no less than 2,O00,0OO.
In the other great migrations that
have changed completely the ethno-
logical aspect of great areas IN LII
ro1e and Asia there were larger num-
kbers involved, but the movements
Were less acute because they were
more gradual, in some cases deliberate
Reminiscent of History.
In the race movement Of the Ger
mans. known as the 'Volkerwander-
bng, great bodies of men, with theI
families, wandered" methodlcally ana
kowlv. seeking new places Tor settle
nent in the areas abandoned by the
Grcatug Roman empire.
In Asia. too, centuries after the Ger
ban movement was nearing It's Colll-
petion and modern Germany was
sryyalizpd. there were vast movements
i peoples under the scourge OF sue
essiye conquerors, like Attila, Chen
B Khan and lesser adventures.
In the Asiatc movements action
vas swift and bloody; nations fled al
op speed to save their lives, carrying
much of their goods, herds, Hocks
md amilies-in the order named-as
hey could.
The movement in the Near East re-
als the Asiatic rush of population
ut OF the way of an invader rushing
eadIong into populated countries.
To Till Abandoned Fields.
The rcsponsibility for this appalling
Socaton OF the chronological map OF
be Near East appears to rest chiefly
Turkey, despite the assurance OF
Turkish delegate at Lausanne Tues,
ay that it was Greece that insisted
pom the emigration of her Turkish
opuation in order to provide hous-
be accommodation for her influx from
STA Minor and to insure a homoge-
city OF population at home.
~ But most of the people beng eXpa-
rated to be repatriated are to be dis
lbued throughout Anatolia, to TIL
be fields, including opium fields that
e being abandoned by Greeks and
rmenans.
For Greece the problem is much
ore difficult The depleted condition
the Greek treasury after a crushing
Fieat is d serious element in the Sit
Ption
To meet this situation partly Greece
SEPARATING thousands of Bulgarian
rmers Who have lived in Macedonia
southern Thrace for centuries
Pc Greek pressure upon the Bulga-
RnS Ike the Turkish pressure on
Greeks. is reacting tragically upon
aIgaria
IREE MILLION DOLLARS