The Cordova daily times., 1922-10-27

SAYS GREECE FORCED OUT
 BY ALLIES

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 - Those who are not initiated in the ways and means of the European diplo- matic jungle cannot understand the phenomenon of the Greek disaster in Asia Minor, says Soterios Nichol- son, in a report to the Near Eastern Information Bureau. This disaster is not caused by the, defeat of the He'll enic Army, because really there is no such defeat to be lamented. The Greeks did not fight to gain or lose a single battle since August 25, but they simply retreated and evacuated Asia Minor. And 1t Is this retreat, it is this evacuation that we call disaster, and not the defeat" or Trout" or "annihilation," as the French and the Italians are so loudly and consistently advertising in favor of Renal Pasha.
 The re-occupation of Ionia by the I Nationalist Turks is victory of Mo- 1 hammedanism over Christianity of Asia over Europe, of barbarism and autocracy against civilization and democracy of war, reaction and stag nation against peace, progress and prosperity. The loss of Asia Minor by the Greeks is loss to humanity. The situation is so pregnant with new world catastrophe that every thoughtful man cannot but look at it with the greatest apprehension. The American public is eager to know the plain truth about the Near East and to see clearly the consequent course of the present events
 1 The only cause of the Greek dis aster is this:
 The Greek Government was forced by the open enimity of it's former Allies to decide to evacuate Asia 1 Minor. This was a tremendous task. The greatest obstacle to the execu- tion of the said decision was the patriotism of the commanding and staff officers of the Greek Army who opposed the evacuation and were in favor organizing a movement of 1 National Defense of Iona with the aboriginal Christian population. The Greek Government removed Field Marshal Papoulas and all officers op- posed to the evacuation, replacing them with Hadiianestis and others, who were willing to obey orders.
 The evacuation is misrepresented by the enemies of Greece as a defeat, and ignorant people believe that the Greeks have been routed and anni- Inflated! The fact is the Turks well equipped. informed by Russian, French and Italian Governments, pursued relentlessly the retreating Greeks, came in contact with them and en- deavored desperately to obstruct their way toward the north and west, to the ports of Moudania and Smyr- na The Turks pressed the rear de- tachments of the retreating Greeks and forced them to a hot contest. Some of the regiments refused to put up fight against the enemy. The soldiers said "If the King and his government are unable to secure the fruits of our sacrifices and victories of a war lasting ten years and we have to evacuate this land Of our fathers drenched with our blood and covered with the bones of our con- rades, then we are not going to fight any more"-They lost faith in their commanders, they disobeyed their officers and fled. But these were only isolated instances of lack of discipline and order in the great retreat movement of a war front of more than two hundred miles, in stances bound to happen in the army of any nation under similar circum- stances. As a whole the retreat of these twenty myriad Greeks, remind ing us of the famous Xenophonian soldiers, was effected successfully, in an orderly way with a comparatively small loss in lives and material.