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Show CROSS IKE-SM FOR CRESCENT DFTURK Christians Fleeing to Balkan Peninsula From Thrace ' CONSTANT! VOri-F:, Oct. 1 Hy IT. P.) Thousands of Christiana, jnany hungry and wlih nil their earthly belonging par!M on their back;, trudged out of Ttra"S totlfcjr ', an the cross mads way ftr the crescent. Aged men and women, many carry-1 Ins; children, walked toward thft Hal- k.in peninsula, 'leaving forever the homes that they have occupied fur years. Some loaded their household (rono" In carts; others left everything behind and fied In order to be out of Thrace in fifteen days, the time limit sst by the nllled KPnerals and Turkish iepie-sentattve iepie-sentattve at the Mudsnla conference. Moat of lh trains In Thrace have leen commandeered by the Greek government to carry soldiers, who will be loaded on transports when they reach the ports. The civilian population popula-tion had to depend on the rickety r.iris or w:ilk. j HnHoAto. on thv Balkan peninsula, waa choked with refugees. The suffering suf-fering and fnodless Greeks and -Armenians awaited some means to carry thm to Greece. Four British and three French battalions bat-talions were entering Thrace today on the heels of the departing Greeks. When the laat of. the Greeks have departed the allies will turn the territory ter-ritory over to 8000 Turkish gendarmes. The Turkish civil forces will hold Thrace until after the flnnl Near Kaat peac parley, when the Turk army may enter. |