Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-15
SAY HUNDREDS
ARE MASSACRED
British Threaten to Fire on
Smyrna Unless Turks Stop
Fire and Murder
GIRLS ARE CARRIED OFF
Fire Still Raging in Armenia
Great Settlement is
Wiped Out

SMYRNA. Sept: 15:-(By The
Associated Press) The fire which
started in the American quarters of
Smyrna early yesterday afternoon
had spread early today to the Turk
ish sections of the city and was
making 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 greater rapidity.
Fourteen naturalized Americans
are missing, but all the American
born are accounted for. Ten Of
them are in the suburbs with Amer
lean and Turkish guards.
The American consulate general
was situated in the burned area.
Consul General Horton and his ste Fl
left as the flames swept toward the
buildings taking with them the offic-
ial codes and funds, together with
the most important records and
documents.
An American destroyer sailed for
Saloniki with 600 refugees and an
other later cleared for Piraeus with
400 persons including some of the
consulate staff, members of Ameri-
can benevolent organizations and
business men.
The Turkish troops are making
strenuous efforts to prevent whole
sale looting by bands Of irregulars.
General Nouredein Pasha. COM
mander in chief of the Kemalist
forces here. yesterday urged the Of
ficials of the American committee on
relief in the Near East to arrange
for the evacuation of as many of
the Greeks as possible. and said
their return to their interior would
mean certain death in reprisal for
the destruction of Anatolian viii
lagos by Greek troops.
LONDON, Sept. 15 (By The Asso-
ciated ss):-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
seaport recently evacuated by the
Greek army, it is charged in semi
official and other Greek messages
from Athens 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 con-
ceal the traces of their alleged mis-
deeds, a considerable share of the
property loss from the fire. the total
of which. is estimated in Greek quar-
ters at one billion francs (about
$75,000,000 at the present exchange
rate) fell upon American firms. A
message from Greek semi official
sources from athens dated Thurs
day reads:
Absolutely trustworthy persons
belonging to the foreign colonies AZ
Smyrna and notably Americans ar
irving here on the destroyer Simp-
son, which also brought United
States Consul General Horton, relate
terrifying details regarding the
massacre of Smyrna following the
big Ire which reduced the Armeni-
an, Greek and European sections of
the town to ashes"
Several French and British estab-
lishments. the French College of
st. Joseph's and other French
schools and the American Y. NJ. G.
A. were destroyed. The outlying
Greek and Armenian villages and
suburbs OF Burja and Burnabat
where Europeans reside were burn
ed.
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Athens says:
"An American passenger who
reached Piraeus from Smyrna said
he saw 900 Armenians forced by the
Turks to embark on lighter. The
Armenians were then sent down, the
bodies being left floating in the
British to Act
LONDON, Sept. Is (By The Asso-
ciated Press) One of the possible
immediate results of this afternoons S
British conference, it is believed, is
that Mustapha Kemal Pasha will be
informed that he will be met not
only by British troops and British
ships, but by a Jugo-Slav army. if
he attempts to occupy Constanti-
nople, and cross the Straits of the
Dardanelles.
water According to other passen-
gers, prominent members of the
marilyhh nhaed ugod
British colony in Smyrna were sim
ilarly murdered"