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Show GREECE MEETS HEAVIEST BLOW Giving Eastern Thrace to Turks Means Thousands Must Leave Homes ADRIAjtOPLE, Oct. II (By The' 'Associated Press.) ' Whether shnll lead fciur thousand exiles. " ejclalmcd Xenophon Decasos, clv'.l jrovernor f eastern Thrace, in reply to Th Asso-1 elated Press r orrespondent's questional relative to plans for the evacuation of' that territory. The governor had Just received do- lay ad dispatches from Athens confirm-; ing the Greek cabinet .i decision to I 'ahandon eastern Thrace. Like all of-1 ficlals In the province, he had been ! hoping against hope for the past few days that the new Greece would find 'some wav out of this sacrifice. PEOI LE PJBARF1 l. ThN is the hour of Grer a'l 'agony," he Maid, paclnc nervously uPl nnd down the marble floor of his en-1 1 ormoufl office In th state house In' his left hand he gripped crumpled dli-1 patches, while he gestured with bll right. 1 "Without Thraee how can Greece ;live? How can she pay her debts or (regain her prosperity? We h;ive suf- fered many rrvcrsoB In our long hls-Itorj'i hls-Itorj'i hut never a blow so disastrous to our nntlonal existence. Th" work ;of the past three ears is lost if thi3 decision Is carried out I More than half our population I must leave. After what has happened In Smyrna I am cerin all Christians I will find life Intobiable under this new and more terrlliV Turk, no mat - I ter what safeguards are offered, 'ihls! Is the feeling of my people, and all Iwho can will go. But where can we 1 go, how can we leave our homes, our possessions; our all Whither shall I lead them" Governor Decasos insisted that th' majority of the Turkish population 1 Iwere entirely satisfied with tho Greek nils of the past three years. There had heen no persecutions of the Turks, w ho were never more pros-jperous. pros-jperous. he declared. |