Evening star., 1922-10-02
BEGGING REFUGEES
LASHED BY TURKS
American Woman Physician
Tells of 0utrages in
Looted Smyrna.
PUSH CROWDS INTO SEA
Victims surrsYasr Naluabks to
Marauders in Hope Of
Saving Lives.
PUSH CROWDS INTO SEA
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CONSTANTINOPLE, October g.
| 1.-THE cries of the Christian refugees
Of Smyrna for water and food are
met by a Turkish lash," said DR..
Esther Lovejoy of New York, presi-
dent Of the American Women's Hos
pital, who has just returned here
after a weeks survey in the stricken
city. DR.. Lovejoy declared that the
world has not been told the real
story of fire and horror.
There are still several hundred
thousand Christians in Smyrna and
the interior whose lives are in peril.
for the time limit of their evacuation
has expired" she said. "Only Provi-
dence knows what their fate will be.
The crowds on the quay are SO great
that some of them are pushed into
| the sea. Women stand waist deep in
the water, holding their babies aloft
in their arms to save them from
drowning.
Struck By Turk.
Turkish soldiers are systematical-
ly robping the men and wrenching
rings from women's fingers. The
wretched sufferers are willing to be
robbed if the robbing can purchase
life.
"At night the Turkish soldiers
commit excesses against women and
girls. Only when searchlights from the
ships in the harbor are turned on them
do they desist. In terror Of the Turks,
the refugees are packed in thousands in
front Of the American consulate.
There are more than 100 mothers
delivered while standing. attended
many. Some of the infants died within
a few hours from exposure, but the
mothers clung pitifully to the bodies
of the little things"
DR., Lovejoy said that Turkish SOL
dier, mistaking her for a Greek wom-
an, struck her heavily with the butt
Of a rifle and left a mark. This SOL
dier was about to strike her again,
when an American officer intervened.
She declared that she saw two men
out to a boat. They were discovered
them. The shots went wild and
American bluejackets in a motor boat
, were able to pick up the two men.
One Of the doctors. asserted DR..
cut her throat and then hurl herself
into the water and drown.
| Victims Robbed.
Americans at home could not begin
to visualize the terrible anguish Of
the refugees as their loved ones were
torn from them-children being sepa-
rated from their mothers and the
fathers sent into the interior, declared
the American relief worker: Refugees
who were evacuated must pass
through series of gates. she said.
DR.. Lovejoy described how the. refu-
gees were strippethof all their belong
ings, including their money and their
clothing. In some cases the women
were forced to undress SO that they
could not take any funds with them.
BY the time refugee women reached
tho last gate. her clothes were in tat
ters.
DR.. Lovejoy described the sanitary
conditions In Smryna as unspeakable.
The whole city. she said. was befouled.
She thought that the Turkish officers
were doubtless unaware OF the mig
beheavior of their soldiers. In many
cases the officers showed real compass
sion for their refugees, she said: She
mentioned one instance In. which q
Turk threw himself across the body
Of q child in order to save it from
hAfug trampelG6 to death 49,