Evening star., 1925-12-04
GREEK REFUGEES
AIDED BY LEAGUE:
Thousands of Families ExiIed
by Turks Re-estabIiShed.
Entire Villages Built.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
OF The Star and the Chicago
Daily Nans

Daily News.
PARIS, France, November 1o.-The
Greek defeat in Turkey in 1922 set
Armenian and Turkish refugees in
Near Eastern lands, Of whom four
tifths were women and children. The
Turks were determined to get the
Greeks and Armenians out of Turkey
once and for all Retaliations occur
red upon Turkish populations else
where.
More than 6 1000 Bulearians previ-
ously deported by the Greeks were
repatriated to Bulgaria by the League
of Nations. Ten thousand Greeks
were evacuated from Constantinople
10 Asia Minor and 10000 more were
settled in relief camps. The league
also helped the Greek government TO
transport 500, 900 Greek refugees TO
Greece from Turkey. These Greeks.
for the most part, had been estab-
lished for many centuries in Asia
Minor and Constantinople.
For Greece. rather poor and bar
ren little country of 1000 900 inhabl-
tants the problem created by the sud
den arrival Of 100000 more Greeks.
AL practically destitute. seemed in
soluble. There was only one possible
nolcN. IN some Way lHeN Idd ~ NC
housed and work had to be found for
them The help of the league was
asked After due study, the league
decided upon q Greek refugee loan.
to be issued in London and elsewhere
as sound investment proposal. The
Greek loan-S50 600, ,000-was easily
subscribed, and under the direction of
league commission settlement of
the refugees began.
Whole Villages Built.
In the waste lands of Greek Mace
donia whole new villages were built.
Some OF the families We're placed in
various Greek cities. others were eS
rablished as fisher-folk on various
points of the coast. Up to March, 1929.
more than 1879, 900 families had been
settled in this way. Urban workers
have been equipped with tools. To
farmers wagons. plows. seed and l29,-
600 head of live stock have been fur
nished.
From Turks who emiGrated to Tur
key 5000 houses We're obtained for the
incoming Greeks 5000 houses have
been built by the Greek government
and 1000 under the league plan. The
success of the whole tentative plan
thus far has been amazing. when the
slender resources of Greece and the
large number or refugees are taken
into consideration.
Now the league is attempting TO
grapple with the difficult question Of
Armenian refugees. The Armenians
made common cause with the allies in
the great war and were promised
their independence by the allies gov
ernments. including the United States.
but the promise was not kept. In
stead. the victorious Turks have mas-
sacred or driven out all that remained
of the .trmenians. IN 1920 the ~.
menian population was estimated at
3.140. 900 Now the oniv place in the
world that can properly be called Ar.
menia is the Armenian Republic OF
Frivan, which forms a part of Soviet
Russia. The rest have disappeared
from the face of the earth.
or the known refugees $4,000 who
are able to work are unemployed. OF
these 10000 are III Greece. which is
already overhurdened with Greek ref
ugees. and 5000 are in concentration
camps in Constantinople. The league
estimates that. in all, 900 to 1000
Armenians are in urgent need of con-
StructiNe. permanent relief. and II sees
no recourse save to 'repatriate" them
TO Soviet Armenia. which is the only
Armenian land in the world today.
A league commission recently visited
Soviet Armenia. 1t reports that the