Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-09-25

The following from the AlLdHliS,
the representative Greek newspaper
in this country, will be of interest
TO many Alexandrians:
For three years and three
months Smyrna, with an area Of
Asia Minor covering 10000 square
kilometers, with a population of s.
OOO,OOO souls, has been under Greek
occupation and Greek administra-
ton.
During this period, while a great
war was going on against the Turk
ish Nationalists, and Notwithstanding
the various fluctuations of the front,
order, tranquility. progress and even
prosperity reigned supreme. Inc
civil population, irrespective OF creed
and nationality, was recovering from
the effects of centuries Of Turkish
maladministration; work was going
on in the fields, shops and factories;
moneys were being appropriated oy
the Greek Government for pubic
works and other improvements; JUS
tice was melted out quickly and I'M
partially by the Greek judiciary, and
public revenues were increasing
showing by the fact that Asia Minor
was busy and happy.
SMYRNA itself was the picture of
all this progress brought over by the
Greek army, which gave the Ionian
capital a new life and a new business
impetus. Smyrna was the most lively
city in the whole Near East during
the three years of the Greek occupa-
ton. People went there from the
rs.lapls On nd
from Old Greece itself to enjoy Sum
mer and to feel happy in this turmoil
of Joyous lie.
When The IUrRs lame Back
1t was under such conditions that
the Greek Army extended It's front
gradually, taking in Eski-Shehr and
Afiun Karahissar and Kutaia and
Brusa and Adm, and marched vic
toyiously TO almost the gates OF An
CORA.
Then all of a sudden the Turks
came back to Smyrna, following one
of the greatest cataStroDhes that
ever befell an army in the field and
the hurried departure of that same
army, which was the Greek.
The Turks entered Smyrna on Sun
U1N, anu OH w CulCotscN Guy AfA tto -
city ceased to exist because the tOrch
of the invader reduced the lonlan
capital to a Smoulderirg heap or
ashes, covering the charred bones of
1000 innocent victims, butchered IN
cold blood by the authors of the Ar
menian masSacreS, the perpetrators
of the Pontus horrors, the execution
ers of Adana and Hadjn and Aintab
and Marash. Il took the Nationalist
Turks exactly three days to undo
the three years peaceful work of
Greece in Smyrna. 1t took exactly
8 DAYS 90 show the world that the
lavish propaganda in favor of the
new Turkey of Augora and of Must
apha Renal was nothing but film
sv smoke screen under which the
same old unspeakable Turk was hid
ing all the time.
Turkey VIII Never Reform
The statements of MuStapha Renal
that he would treat the Christian
populations under his domination rs
civilized conqueror, the promises
given his heutenantS. like Bekir SAM
Bey and Feth Bey, YuSuf kemal
Bey and all the propagandists at
tached to his cause, that Nationalist
Turkey would respect the non-MoS-
lem population that was to be sub
mitted 10 his rule. were found TO be
pack Of lies. Turkey does not re-
form, cannot reform, viii never re-
form. No matter how modern Renal
or Halide HanOum appear Outwardly
to be. they have shown themselves
to be the same Turks Of five centur-
les ago. the killers Of defenseless wo-
men and children, the decorators of
churches and incendiaries that they
have been throughout their stay IN
Europe,
The sack of Smyrna, whose dimeu-
siOnS increase as more details are
filteriug through from that city Of
horror and death. gives the he to
such champions Of the Turkish cause
rs NJ. Pierre Lott and Claude Far
rere and Berthe George Gaulis and
FrankGu-Bouillon and all those
Freuch writer's, travellers, officials,
clergymeu and all those who are con-
sidore6 among the best opponents of
French policy and thought at the
present day. We mention these names
because it is French policy that made
lUe NcOid'Nl lIlutiNu ANNNt'tNf H9 IL
was French jealousy az the success
of British policy IN the Near East
that awakened the slumbering fires
of Islam and brought about the pre-
sent catastrophe, the consequences
of which no one can fortcu.
F.enoh guns, French money,
French advisers. French diplomacy
and French newspapers stood behind
Ken,al. since the day Of armistice
OF Lcmuos i'm October 1918. when
the British Admiral Garden came TO
terms with the Turks. behind the back
of the French Gcuyralj>simo of the
Macedonian front Fyauchet d'Esper-
cy down 90 the sack Of Smyrna
which marked the elimination Of the
Franco-TurkiSh campaign against
Great Britain. whose tool Greece was
supposed To be.
But then it was nor France alone
that helped the Turks; there was
Italy, bitter and hostile TO any plar
Of a greater Greece, and there was
Soviet Russia, whose enmity Greece
won by taking par, in the disastrous
campaign Of General Denikin in thC
Ukraine There was England. colo