Show S Smyrna Smyrna can lay claim to a loftier lineage t than an perhaps any other city on the earth It is her proud boast that from the earliest dawn of hist history ry down to the present bombardment her continuity of ot namo name and fame is un un- un- un broken It is in this spirit that she claims Homer f for r a citizen citizen His river the Meles which gave him a name hame runs near the city city and the c cave ve is still shown where he wrote his poems Smyrna has not been slack In appropriating appropriating Homer endowing him even with a a local temple The saddest chapters in lathe the history of the city are those which record earthquakes and and and- massacres of Greeks by Turks |