Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-23
An AMERICAN WRITES
OF SMYRNA HORRORS
Psnna. Engineer Says Butcher
Of Christians Was Worse
Than hades Scene.

Philadelphia Bulletin.
A graphic description OF tho horrors
attending tho entry Of the Turkish SOL
diers into Smyrna has just been re-
ceived by Mrs. Alice Rambo, ColiinG-
dale. Pa. from her husband. Earl II.
Rainbo. who IL an engineer on the u,
= s. destroyer Iitchfield.
The Litchfeld. unit In the United
States Mediterranean feet. was an
chored on Smyrna during tho defeat
of the Greeks. and the burning OF the
city BY the Grecian soldiers and the
entry Of the Moslem hordes.
MIR. Rainbo had shore leave every
"Wednesday evening, and the following
excerpts clearly depicted his obscrva-
tons:
Il have been IN worse that Hades
In IN" past five days. At least they
don't burn hrisht-eyed. innocent bab-
ies down below "a they have done
here"
While guarding n bake shop we
had To take over I'm order 10 control
one source Of food supply for the refu-
gees. II WAS bad enough to turn starv-
Ing people away from bread with the
lt''A ". - tshy putNs OuN tp Stt OtQ riiNti
beaten or stabbed to death. and beauti-
ful young girls marched away as
prisoners 10 night Of torture and
death In the morning, was maddening.
And hero l was with a loaded gun IN
my hands and not allowed To use It. -
IF you haven't realized the situa-
tion from this description, imagine a
quay two miles long and as wide as
Broad St. packed solid with people,
mostly women and children. At both
ends OF the quay. Turks were shooting
and stabbinH the unfortunate victims
pushing them overheard. n scene OF be-
widering despair. with the flaming
city behind them a lurid background
This Is a picture l watched for hours
last "Wednesday night.
I'm never forget the screams oi
those burning. drowning and dyins
women and children. We loaded every
ship in the harbor with refugees. but
only very small proportion OF th'
tewildercd multitude could be taker
aboard
"rhey wsrc all cra1cd from frigh
end horror. I've had beautiful girls
on their knees beg me TO shoot them
md mothers pleaded with me 70 shoe
sheir children In order TO avoid th'
Inevitable fate OF torture.
Those who had been pushed on th'
quay and were struggling in the mur
XIV. shark infested waters were sho
a, by the Turks from shore. But all w
were allowed To do WAS 20 throw lie
lines 90 those fortunate enough TO b'
in reach Of our ships efforts. While
British, French and Italian ships sen
Shelr ruwboats 70 the rescue to gath
err drowning human beings and Chris
fans. I'm still wondering why Amer1
ran rowtoats remained idle, and Al
We did VIVA TO look on the horrible
spectacle.
September 10th, and I'm leavfni
FOR Constantinople In an hour. In
glad TO get away from this plaee. &
forget the horror Of II. II is pitiful q
leave them in the condition they ar
en. and / fear shall never forget tn
heartrending scenes.
THE unfortunates are now too weal
90 scream. but sit around In dunn
agony. At this writing. the weaGe
ones, aged and very young. are dyin
aar, from hunger and exhaustion.
often wish IL were only dream an
that upon awakening / should I'm
myself back in dear old United State
and Collingdale. might return b
December, but II may not be unit
late In spring; :, AL depends upon IN
turn IN events"
Mr.. RaInoo is a graduate OF IN
Naval Training School at Hampto
Roads. Va, and left for foreign water
June 10. lie also saw service for tw
years IN the World War and serve
during the Mexican embroglio.