New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-09
: Starred Conquest Of
Anatolia Abandoned as
Army Of 200, ,OOO Fades
TO $4,000 i'm Full Rout
helnal Expected to
Set Two Conditions
Smyrna Evacuated With
Attacking Forces Only
2S Miles From the CITY

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Associated Press ).--Greece has ap-
pealed to, the Turkish Nationalist gov
ernment for an armistice. Severely de-
feated in Asia Minor, her army of
100000 there reduced to $4,000 effec-
tives that are in utter rout, and her
base of operations at Smyrna threatened
with capture, Greece has abandoned her
lill-starred attempt to establish a Greek
colony in Anatolia and has sued for
peace.
The Allied High Commissioners here,
in advising the Angora government of
the Greek request for an arn1istice.
proposed that the preliminaries be dis
cussed at Yarimdja, the British sec
tion of the occupied neutral zone on
the Asiatic side of the Bosporus, and
that the peace commission consist of
three officers each of the Allied, Greek
and Turkish Nationalist armies. The
Angora governments reply has not yet
been received.
Two Conditions Expected
1t is reported that the Turks will
grant an armistice on two conditions.
First, the evacuation of Thrace; and,
second, the immediate departure of the
Greek military and naval units from
Constantinople. Permission to embark
troops and material from Asia Minor
would be subordinated to the above two
conditions.
WIh the Turks within twenty 1--WE
miles of Smyrna, the Greeks to-day
bTgan to evacuate the port. Embarka-
Eons are under way from Smyrna,
, Vurla and Chesme. The political and
military authorities are fleeing, having
removed all records to shipboard for
safety. The Greek high commissioner
in Smyrna, M. Stergiadis, has handed
the town over to the Allied consuls.
Allied naval detachments have been
landed in the city, and Greek hopes of
dominion in Anatolia are apparently at
an end.
Remnants of the Greek army have
arrived twelve and half miles from
smyrna, but, the Turks apparently are
not closely following them. Volun-
teers in SmySaa vainly ara@szying TO
enforce resistance against the Turks.
but 1t is believed here that Mustapha
kemal Pasha, the Turkish Nationalist
leader, can enter the town in three
days.
The situation in Smyrna is extremely
grave. Bands of Greek soldiers, Ar
menians and Turks are committing acts
OF incendiarism, pillage and murder.
The Allied fleets have arranged q plan
for concerted action
Cassaba Held by Turks
The town of Cassaba, about twenty
five miles from Smyrna, has been occu-
pied by Turkish cavalry, according to
reports from Adana.
An Angora dispatch asserts that the
Greek northern army, composed of
three divisions, has been annihilated
and it's fleeing remnants made prisoner
in the mountainous region about Kur-
dus, where the Turks had intercepted
Greek forces attempting to go to the
rescue Of the Greek southern army,
surrounded near Ushak, which the
Turks had captured.
The Greek northern army is retiring
from Brusa toward Panderma and Mu-
dania, on the Sea of Marmora.
Greek warships, it is announced, have
bombarded Yalova, on the Sea of Mar
silencing another, which opened fire
on them
The whole of the Smyrna hinterland
has been ravaged by the Turks and
refugees continue to pour into the city
by the thousands. A Turkish airplane
flew over the town and dropped PAM
phlets announcing the complete lib
GRAFTON" of Asia Minor.
General Polimenakos has been ap-
pointed commander in chief of the
Greek forces in Asia Minor following
the capture of General Tricoupis by
the Turks.
Revolution Near in Smyrna
The Greek administration Of Smyrna
ceased to function yesterday. Revo-
luton within the city is imminent, ac-
cording to reports. 1t is feared that
the revolt will be accelerated by the
enormous influx of refugees, bread
riots and the lack IF discipline in the
Greek army.
Two Allied transports left here for
Smyrna with supplies. It is the pre-
yailing opinion here that Generals
Dousmanis and Polymcnakos will not
be able to stem the Turk advance and
form bridgehead to protect Smyrna.
The swift movements of the kemalist
army are looked upon as almost i'm
possible to stop.
Conditions Of panic prevail at Brusa,
while refugees are arriving in large
numbers at Mudania. None of them
nople, which already is overcrowded,
The Allied High Commissioners have in
formed the Greek authorities that they
must seek other places than Constants
nople to care for the refugees.
Panic Sweeps Ionia
A state Of panic prevails throughout
Ionic, and the British High Commits
sioner has telegraphed to CONSTANT
nople asking that relief supplies be
rushed here, as it feared the grave food
shortage will result in disorders.
The foreign population is in trepi-
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