The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-24
SMYRNA TRAGEDY
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Their Point of View, Set Forth by Editor of Atlantis, a
 Greek Daily
Adamantios Tn. Polyzoides. editor O

Adamantlos Tn. Polyzoides, editor of
 Atlantis, in the New York Times
 For three years and three months Smyrna. with an area of Asia Minor covering 116,0OO square kilometers. with population of 3.000, 600 souls, has been under Greek occupation and Greek administration.
 During this period, while a great war was going on against the Turk ish Nationalists. and notwithstano- ing the various fluctuations of the front, order, tranquility, progress and even prosperity reigned su- preme. The civil population, irre- spective of creed and nationality, was recovering from the effects of cen turtles of Turkish administration; work was going on in the fields. shops and factories; moneys were be- Ing appropriated by the Greek gov ernment for public works and other improvements; justice was meted out quickly and impartially 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 new life and a new
 
 most lively city in the whole Near East during the three years of the Greek occupation. People went there from the country and from the is- lands and from Old Greece itself to enjoy summer and to feel happy in this turmoil of joyous life.
 When the Turk Came Back
 It was under such conditions that the Greek army extended its front gradually. taking in Eski-Shehr and Afiun Karahissar and kutaia and Brusa and Aidin, and marched vic- toriously to almost the. gates of An gora.
 Then all of a sudden the Turk came back to Smyrna, following one of the greatest catastrophies that ever befell an army in the field and the hurried departure of that same army, which was the Greek.
 The Turk entered smyrna on Sun day, and on Wednesday Smyrna as a city ceased to exist because the torch of the invader reduced the lon- ion capital to a smouldering heap or ashes. covering the charred bones of 2.O00 innocent victims butchered Tn cold blood by the authors or the Armenian massacres, the perpetra- tors of the Pontus horrors, the e1- ecutioners of Adana and HadJin ana Aintah and Marash. It took the Na- tionalist Turks exactly three days to undo the three years peaceful work of Greece in Smyrna. It took ex- actly three days to show the world that the lavish propaganda in favor of the new Turkey of Angora ana of Mustapha Renal was nothing put a flimsy smoke screen under Whlch inc same old unspeakable Turk was hiding all the time.
 ..Iurkey VIII Never Reform"
 The statements of Mustapha kemai that he would treat the Christian population under his domination. as civilized conqueror, the promises given by his lieutenants' ike Sehif si San,i Bey. and Fethi Bey, Yusit Kemal Bey and all the propagandists attached to his cause, that Nationalist Turkey would respect the non Moslem population that was to De submitted to his rule, were found to be a pack of lies. Turkey does not roforrn. cannot reform, will never re- form. No matter how modern hema or Ha1ide Hanoum appear outwardiy to be, they have shown themselves to be the same Turks of five centuries ego, the killers of defenseless women and children, the desecrators of churches and incendiaries that they have been throughout their stay in Europe.
 The sack of Smyrna, whose dimen- s,ons increase as more details are Altering through from that city of horror and death, gives the lie to such champions of the Turkish cause as M. Pierre Lott and Claude Farrere and Berthe George Gaulis and Frank lin-Boui1lon and all those trench
 ~ff toI n men and all those who are considered among the best opponents of French policy and thought at the present day. We mention these names be- cause it is French policy that made the Kemalist triumph possible, as 1t was French jealousy at the success of British policy in the near east that awakened the slumbering fires of Islam and brought about the pres ent catastrophe, the consequences of which no one can fortell.
 French guns, French money, French advisers, French diplomacy ana French newspapers stood behind Renal, since the day of armistice of I,emnos in October. 1918, when the British Admiral Garden came to terms with the Turks, behind the back of the French generalissimo of the Macedonian front. Franchet d Es- percy, down to the sack of Smyrna, which marked the continuation of tks Franco-Turkish campaign against Great Britain whose tool Greece was supposed to be.
 But then it was not France alone that helped the Turks; there was Italy, bitter and hostile to any plan of a greater Greece. and there was Soviet Russia, whose enmity Greece won by taking part in the disastrous campaign of General Kenikin in the JJkrane. There was England, cold aht indifferent toward the Greek campaign, on account of the pro- Turkish leanings of such men as Lord Reading, the Viceroy of India. and Montagu, the ex-secretary of India. the late Lord Northcliffe and a host of other imperiaiists of the old school, bitter antagonists of Premier Lloyd George.
 Apportions Blame to America
 And, finally, there was neutral America, whose attitude in not ex- tending formal recognition to a duly constituted popular and constitution al regime like that of Greece. gave Kemal the impression that the United States was not unfriendly to him.
 It was in the face of such more or less overt enmity that Greece for three years Kept carrying On the Asia Minor campaign Finan- cially and automatically blockaded. while the Turk had free access to the sources of French, Italian and Russian credit, Greece. whose navy was denied the right to search the vessels carrying war contraband to the Turks under the protection of allied flags; Greece, whose army was
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