The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-20
VIVID PICTURES OF
TURK ATROCITIES
Eyewitness Tells of the CataS-
trophe at Smyrna.
MASSACRE SCENE DESCRIBED

Archbishop Slain After His Beard Had
Been Extracted Hair by Hair
Church No Protection for Women
Who Fled There Hoping to Find
Haven of Refuge-MiIlion People
Forced Into Streets by Fire-PiI-
Iage Day n Night.
An eyewitness of the recent Smyrna
catastrophe has written the following
letter to his sister, who is a member
Of the staff Of the International Insti-
tute for Foreign-Born Women, an ac-
tive branch of the Young Women's
Christian association. The writer is
now destitute in Piraeus, to which
place he escaped with his children af-
ter outwitting and circumventing the
Turkish guard.
"From the very first day Of the
Turkish offensive at Alton Kara-hissar
l had a remote idea that the Greeks
would not be able to keep the lines
of the front unbrOken. Nevertheless,
1 imagined that my terrible fore
OtihS NOOlh NC CQllLC ~ oOOii.
Only five days passed and the Turks,
u~nrestrained and not finding the least
obstacle in their way, descended on
the city of Smyrna. No one expected
1t as the official announcements of the
Greek army of Asia Minor issued false
reports to quiet the population. Only
the wounded who daily were carried
from the front told of our hopeless
condition there.
what happened at the city Of
Smyrna no human mind can conceive.
From the very first days Of the often
sive the refugees started rushing to
the city of Smyrna, fleeing in terror
before the sword of the barbarous n
fanatical executioner. Women half
naked, refugees, children and old men
running terror-stricken through the
streets.
Forerunner of Calamity.
II, influenced by this panic-stricken
exodus, decided to send my wife and
children to Greece on a boat that was
going to take the employees Of the
Bank of Athens from Smyrna. I
thought best to leave our most valu-
able things in the house of my moth
er-in-law for safety. / left my home
carrying a few necessary things. Alas!
my beautiful dear home! 1t was de-
creed that 1 should not see 1t any
more. We go on to Kria Vrissi when
turning to Basmahane. (The Turkish
quarter). 1 see it all red with fezes.
The sight was an ominous one and l
it was the forerunner Of calam-
ity. We walk to the Hiotiko Han to
reach the quay, when I lear the loud
whistles of the boats which were at
the port whistling in honor Of the en-
trance of the Turk into the city of
Smyrna. AT the Maltese quarter /
see two Turks running with bare
'Korkma' (don't be afraid)
they tell US. The occupation took
place at eleven in the morning and l
myself with my wife and babies
in the very midst of it. We raj to the
Of Athens, which was under
protection, where we stay. I'm
the windows of the bank is the
great Beriyolo (note: a walled square
the church in the ~centar) of the
Agia Photini, where were
sheltered nearly three thousand ref
lgees from the different parts of the
Interior.
at is about 2:3O p. M. when from
he window of the bank I see three
Turks on horseback with naked swords
shouting: KOrkmainis, its yok' don't
,e afraid it is %nothing). In the mean
ime one of the newspapers issued q
reclamation of Renal by which he
with penalty Of death any
me who would touch the Christians.
t was the first snare spread out for
he poor Christians. Armed with a
'opy Of the proclamation l risk going
to see what has become of father.
find him well, and at 80 1 turn to
o back to the bank. On the way I
office a suspicious movement Of
roups Of Turks armed to the teeth.
'assing through Megales Tavernes 1
that the Turkish soldiers lay
lockaded the whole quarter, break
lg and looting the shops. They notice
lie and rush for me. l al refuge In
Santa Maria (Italian cathedral).
City Like a Desert.
1.-THE city is like a desert. All tho
hops are closed. In the meantime !.
lany families, barefooted women,
with hair blowing in the
ind, rush in and beg the protection !,
E Santa Maria. The work of pillage, :
Iassacre and outrage had started .
h, terror, gony, desperation! Not
le man was left in Al K~onstantinO, :
.Ortakia and Agia Paraskevi (three :
reek quarters). Groups of Turks, !.
cling, start from Basmahane to All /,
onstantino and the Armenian quar- :
r, where they start the terrible work
massacre. The bodies of the Chris II
ans are piled in the streets by hun c
eds. Not one Armenian was left Z
IT one. The Armenian was killed o