Κυριακή 16 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018

16 Sep 1922: Turks Killed 120,000, East Oregonian

GREEKS, ARMENIANS MASSACRED BY TURKS ACCORDING TO ESTIMATE; U.S. DESTROYERS ARE REMOVING REFUGEES MASSED AT SMYRNA.

British Reinforcements Landed at Constantinople Today While Turkish Cavalry Neared The City; Greek Warship Opened Fire on Turkish Quarter of Smyrna; American Flag Prevented One Massacre; Many Girls Have Been Kidnapped.

Great Britain Has Invited Greece, Rumania, Serbia and British Dominians to Participate in the Defense of Zone Around Constantinople.
Mohammedan leaders have decided upon a general Moslem uprising simultaneously with attack on Constantinople; white massacre expected to follow uprising; Russia and Bulgaria ready to side with Turks in event of war.
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Unconfirmed estimates from Armenian sources say that seventy thousand Christians were massacred in Smyrna and fifty thousand elsewhere in the path of the Turkish armies. Refugees along Smyrna Bay are estimated at half a million.

Girls Kidnapped
Smyrna, Sept. 16, -(U.P)- Twenty-five hundred dead bodies litter the streets, while the harbor waters are dotted with floating corpses as a result of the massacre and fire. Girls from twelve to eighteen were kidnapped. Aged men and women were shot down as they fled from the fire. Six thousand Greeks are reported burned alive. 

http://www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/bibliography/newspapers/356-turks-killed-120000

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