The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-16
ALL TURKEY
CELEBRATES
BIG VICTORY
Sultan Visits Tomb of Con-
queror In Stamboul-
of 500, 100000 in Smyrna
and 100000 Homeless.
CHRISTIANS DEPORTED
fRy Associated Press,


CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept 16.-Re-
newed celebrations were held through
out Asia Minor yesterday to mark the
sweeping Turkish victory over the
Greeks, Friday is the Turkish Sunday
ana the entire Moslem population ceas-
ed its wonted pursuits and repaired to
the mosques to offer prayers of thanks
giving to Allah
For the first time since 1853, when
the Turks captured Constantinople the
sultan went to the Tomb of Moham-
med the conqueror in Stamboul and
PAID homage to the memory of his IL
lustrous predecessor. Several miles of
exulting and jubilant Turks with flags
lined the streets and watched their
sovereign pass. He made the trip in
an American limousine.
The Sultan's passage through the
open streets has had no precedent in
recent years and the people seized on
the occasion to give him a stirring but
reVerent ovation. Heretofore he has
confined himself to the palace at
Yildez and observed as much privacy
as the Pope in the Vatican.
Sultan Alert
Americans who attended the cere-
mony in Stamboul observed that the
Sultan although thin and slightly bent
appeared alert and vigorous. He sa-
luted the group of American visitors
pleasantly as he emerged from prayer
Constantinople is a forest of Grim
son flags with the familiar star and
crescent. The colors even fly from the
four commanding minarets of the fam
Gus mosque of ST. Sophia, whose re-
capture has been the dream of Greeks
for centuries.
Upwards of 1000 persons perished
in the great fire at Smyrna, $500
buildings were destroyed, and all the
American property wiped out.
The catastrophe, say direct advices
received here is of much greater pro-
portions than the conflagration at
Saloniki in 1917, which caused $780,
100000 damage and left 100000 home
less
A heavy rain continued to fall after
the fire, making the plight of the in
habitants and refugees pitiable. Thous-
ands of the frantic populace fled to
the water front and pleaded with the
small forces of American Blue Jackets
there to give them shelter aboard the
10y CA 1AdAy III
jumped into the water and were
drowned.
| The city is without adequate food
and water, and the deplorable lack of
sanitary conditions is giving rise to
pestilence.
LONDON, Sept. 16. TWENTY-FIVE
thousand Christian women and girls
have been conveyed to the interior and
distributed among the Turkish sol
diers," says despatch to the Times
from NJ. Lascaris, editor of Kosmos, a
Smyrna newspaper. who has arrived
on the island of Mitylene.
New refugees from SMYRNA arrived
here this morning (Sept. 15), includ
ing many American and English
They say the Turks are using machine
guns at the street corners killing in
discriminatory" the despatch adds
Succeeding dispatches from Con
stantinople, Athens and other centers
OF information in the near east only
tend to magnify the tale of the tragedy
in Smyrna.
City in Ruins
The greater part of the city is IL
ruin, laid waste by a conflagration Of
tncendiary origin and the flames, &C
cording to the latest account had
reached the waterfront, where the
quays were crowded with fear-crazeo
Christian refugees who fled to the city
as the nearest port of escape from the
Turks. Many have thrown themselve:
into the water, rather than the risk o.
being burned alive or of facing Mus
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