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Show GREEK ARMY, BAND OF FLEEING MEN GREEK LOSS OF MORALE DEM. ON8TRATED BY REFUSAL OF RESERESTO DISEMBARK Rumors That King of Greeco Intends To Abduct Are Current In Several European Cities Smyrna. Only an oyo-wltnoss con roallzo tho oxent of tho dlsastor to tho Grook army which Is termed by many ono of tho most decisive In military history. An army of 150,000 men well equlrf pod has been transformed In loss than two weoks into a virtual band of refugees. ref-ugees. An official Turkish statement says 100 Grook officers and 10,000 mon havo been captured since tho offonBo wns launched, togothor with 600 motor mo-tor trucks, 350 guns nnd a million rounds of nrtlllory ammunition. Tho Grcok Iobs "of moralo Is Illustrated Illus-trated by tho reported refusal of a battalion of resorves rushed horo from Athens to dlsombark. A contingent contin-gent of Senogulosc which arrived Thursday on a French transport also did not land, owing, It Is said, to somo disagreement. Tho wholo of Smyrna hlntorlund has boon ravaged by the Turk and refugees continue to pour Into tho city by tho thousands. A Turkish nlrplano Thursday flow over tho town and droppod phamplots announcing an-nouncing tho "ocmploto liberation of Asia Minor." Tho govornmont archives havo boon placod on shipboard for safoty and the Smyrna brunches of tho nntlonal bank and tho Hank of Athens nro closed. A stnto of panic provnlls throughout Ionia and tho British, high commissioner commis-sioner has telographod to Constuntl-noplo Constuntl-noplo asking that relief supplies bo rushed horo as It Is feared the gravo food shortago would rosult In disorder. disor-der. Tho foreign population is in trepidation trepi-dation loss tho GrcokH explodo tho Immense stores of munitions in tho city to prevent them from falling to tho. Komullsts. A number of American destroyers aro unchorod in tho harbor which with Its concentration of warships of all tho powers resembles tho scene of a hugo naval pageant. Tho Standard Oil company has chartered steamships to carry Its proporty and personnel to safety and .'10 ships are in readiness to romovo refugees to tho outlying islands if noccssary. Tho resignation of tho Greek gov-ornmnnt gov-ornmnnt comes us no surprise in vlow of the press cablos of tho last fow days doscrlblng tho ronctl m In Athens to tho dashing of Grook mllltury hopes In Anatolia. M. Kalogoropoulos, tho premier-deslgnato, premier-deslgnato, In addition to being ono of tho cleverest lawyors In his country, Is also oxporloncod In military affairs, nnd held tho portfolio of minister ot war simultaneously with that of premier pre-mier In tho cnblnot which ho formod in Soptombor 11)10. During his administration ho stoad. fastly uphold tho. Grool claims to Smyrna and Thrncp and opposod tho nppo'ntmont of nn International commission com-mission to study tho status of thoso districts. Ho was miccoodod or per-meir per-meir by Dcmotrls Oounarls In April, 1021. |