Imperial Valley press., 1922-09-15
WAR SEEN
As TROOPS
ARE RUSHED
Turks Reported to Be Burn
ing Smyrna in Great
Sweep of Armies
TAKE U. S. COLLEGE
Allies Act Together Against
Turk Invasion of City
of COnstantinOple
United Press Leased Wire


LONDON, Sept. 15.-6 p. NJ
Smyrna is a roaring inferno, with
scores of massacred victims being
incinerated behind walls of fire,
dispatches from Constantinople and
from British naval forces anchored
off the burning city reported to-
night.
One hundred thousand persons
are in danger of death in the con-
flagration or from starvation fol-
lowing destruction of all food sup
plies, according to advices to the
London Daily Mail.
Special dispatches wirelessed
from the British battleship Iron
Duke described Smyrna as a fur
mace.
There is an unbroken wall of
fire two miles long, with 20 dis
tinct volcanoes of jagged tongues
of flames leaping up hundreds of
feet said this message.
Dense mobs Of fugitives are
huddled on the quays, trapped and
forced to choose between death in
the advancing flames or death in
terrors can be heard for miles.
Send Troops
London, Sept 15.-7:30 p. m.-The
British cabinet today ordered the Medi-
terranean fleet to prevent coneentra-
tion of Mustapha Komal's transports
for invasion of Europe.
Fresh forces of allied troops will be
rushed to Constantinople and the neu-
tral zone Immediately to resist any at
tack by the Turks, it was learned after
the cabinet session.
Troops of three of the powers will
be included nthis movement, but it
act. Presumably British, French and
Italian troops will be ordered to the
neutral frontier
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-Purported
details of Turkish atrocities in Smyrna
the number of massacred
dead at 1000 and picturing the in
vasion of an American college bv the
given out by the Greek
legation here today.
Girl students and women who took
refuge in the American College were
said to have been taken off by the
Turks.
The information was received by the
Grek legation in cabled dispatches from.
Athens.
Allies Stand Together
LONDON, Sept. 15-The allies will
stand together to resist any attempt By
Kemal to invade the neutral
zone and seize Constantinople.
This is the understanding i'll diplo-
matte quarters here tonight.
Diplomatic officials, commenting ON
Kemal s statement tnat he intended
to take Constantinople and that he
would fight the British if necessary,
declared this threat was not alarming,
in view of the solidarity of the allies
On the absolute necessity of maintain.
ing freedom of The BoSphorous and the
Dardanelles.
LONDON, Sept. 15.--Advices from
Smyrna today confirmed reports of
massacres on a serious scale in the city
which was recently captured by Musta-
pha Kemal S Turkish nationalists.
The exact extent of the disorders is
not indicated in these dispatches.
The Turks are said to have started
the massacres after the inhabitants
of the city had for several days given
them provocation. During this period,
the Turks We're unaer perfect control
Kemal has demanded unconditional
surrender of all Asia Minor, Constan.
tinople and Thrace, according to state
ment published by tie Daily Mail.
The Turk declares he viii send his
Moslems to storm and capture Constan-
tinople unless the allies hand over the
city to him. +
''And cannot wait indefinitely, !"
the statement said.
What was once known as Turkey
in Europe, which the allies affirmed