Show AMERICAN CITIZENS HELD BY THE TURKS washington july 1 0 american consul general ernest I 1 L harris at smyrna turkey has been instructed by the state otate department to investigate the report that american citizens nave been seized on the island of and made prisoners dy by a turkish warship mr aie took uie initiative on the basis of the newspaper reports no official information having reached the department tho the department questions whether there vre as many as citizens on the island and such as are there are supposed to have been persons who have been in the united states and become naturalized and then returned to their home |