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Show URKS TIITI 1 AND MUTILATE 25,100 GIRLS H ABDUCTED BY KEMAL TROOPS Christian Women Distributed Distrib-uted Among Soldiers at Smyrna FIRE HORROR GROWS American Relief Worker Declares There Are 120,000 Victims I UNDO V Sept It). (Bv the Vsso-I Vsso-I elated Pre v ) The British government govern-ment has adopted the- nllitudo that the effective and permanent freedom of th.- DandancUcs is a iitai necessity ! for the sake ol" which It is prvparwl i fr make o.crtlons, it was authorlta- lively tatexl this afternoon. LONDON Bept 16. "Twenty-five. thousand Christian women and girls nave been conveyed to the Interior land JU rlbuted among the. Turkish Isoldlers." says a dispatch to the Times from M. Lccarics, eldtor of Kosmos, . p Smyrna newspaper, who has arrived on the Island of Mltylene. New refugees from Smyrna arrived. .!-. morning, September 13. ln-cl ln-cl tiding uian- Americans and English, ii,.. say, the Turks are using machine guns at the street corners, killing ln-dls ln-dls rimlnately. the dispatch adds. official dispatches received from .ii 'Smyrna today state that all the for- T elgn consulates were destroyed by firs I With the exception of those of Spain, (gH Belgium and Norway. Dispatches from Constantinople, Athens and other centers of information informa-tion in the Near East only tend to magnify the tale of the tragedy In I I I Smyrna. 'I he greatest part of the city is la 'ruin, laid waste by a conflagration !of Inc.ndlary oiigln and the flames, according to latest report, had reached li- , th- xxateriront. where the quas xvcro crowded with fear crazed Christian t. j (refugees, xvho fled to the city as IhG nearest port of escape from the Turks i Many have thrown themselves Into the water rather than run the risk I of being burned alive or of facing Mustapha Kemal Pasha's soldiery. drunk With Victory and fired xxlth rc-Ibclous rc-Ibclous fanaticism. TORTURE AND MJDTDjATIOyfS I Others have not had the chance to I choose, accprdipg to dispatches from U j 'Greek sources, which tell of horrible I I tortures and mutilations, and whole? jWH i sale executions. Large numbers of ;:.:-k soldiers have been decapitated, they say. and others forced Into sacks and thrown Into the sea. Allegations JJ , I Of having serv d in the Gree k army bring death to the Armenians and women -md chll.lr.-n are being put to the sword Estimates of the number killed varj greatly, and the latest Ath- j lens dispatch quoted! an American relief re-lief .voi kcr as declaring that up to i Thursday morning there had been I 120,000 victims. It Is thought this fig- ij' I urc may Inrlude the wounded also, as Wk,f previous reports placed the number Mi ,, dead at from 1000 to 2o0 Landward from the city it is report-led report-led that all the villages are burning and that the wholo countryside has been I .-lm-oatn tori I t BK 1 I IRCE M)V VNCES Meanwhile the Turkish forces In the north haxe continued their adxance and almost simultaneously with the news of th ir capture of Pandemia, on it ho Sea of Marmora comes the announcement an-nouncement that the British fleet In the Lardanella-. has ten ordered to .fj prevent any attempt to cross th straits and that no ships shall be allowed al-lowed to concentrate, for the purpose of transferring troops In a movement toward Thrace. JugO-SIavia and Rumania also aro I watching any move in this direction as (Continued on Page Two.) Stories of Murder, Rape and Mutilations in Smyrna Grow (Continued from Pace One) they are opposed to tho Turks again securing a foothold In Europe. W hile the Turks do not possess a navy they control a swarm of light vessels, and have a call upon some larger ships in the Black sea The Turks .are without oupport in their European ambitions I h Russia-Angora treaty is understood under-stood to bind the Russians to co-operate with Mustapha Koma in the capture of the Dardanelles In return for the freedom of the Black sea, and the Moscow government is reported to have prepnred for action al! of it? forces in the Caucasian republics and to be holding its Black sea fleet in readiness Russians born In 1901, hitherto exempt ex-empt from service, havo been called to the colors. The British government Is especially concerned over the neutrality of Constantinople Con-stantinople and, the straits and it k-understood k-understood the'Frei.Ch and Italian troops aro also under ordern to Increase In-crease their vigilance in the neutral zone, and that some have already been landed at points hitherto unoccupied GREAT BUSINESS LOSSES The commercial losses in Smyrna as a result of the erect fire Is enormous, enor-mous, all reports agree, and falls to a great extent upon foreigners. Apparently Ap-parently the whole trading quarter was consumed with Its Immense stores of goods Members of British firms engaged In the Levantine trade sa the results re-sults will bo calamitous to them while numbers of prosperous Greek and Armenian traders face ruin The dried fruit, carpet tobacco and cotton cot-ton goods trades are among the worst sufferers. M. C. Vittie. secretary of the Smyrna Smyr-na British c hamber of commerce, told the Dallv Express th;it more than E40.000 of British capital was sunk in Smyrna and the surrounding districts. The loss of the dried fruit crop will be a heavy blow. The seasons export ex-port trade had just begun the crop was above the average, and nearly 1 00 000 tons were awaiting exportation La.11 this was burned, if the accounts of I the area covered by the fire are ac-I ac-I c urate. RAIN FOLlXAWS FIRE CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept 10 (By the Associated Press ) Upwards of 2000 persons perished in the great fire at Smvrna when 2S00 buildings were i destroyed, and all the American prop-ert; prop-ert; wiped out. The catastrophe, say direct advices received here, is of much greater proportions than the conflagration conflag-ration at Salonlkl in 1917. which caused $100,000,000 damage A heavy rain continued to fall after the fire, making the plight of the inhabitants in-habitants and refugees pitiable. Thousands of the frantic populace fled to the waterfront and pleaded with the small forces of American bluejackets t1 re to give them shelter aboard the 1 destroyers. Many in desperation Jumped into tho water and were drowned The city is without adequate food and water and tho deplorable lack of sanitary conditions is giving rise to fears of pestilence. |