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Show I DB WILFRED POST of Princeton Prince-ton who tells of having to stop his auto to push corpses to one side of road In Smyrna, where 75,- j 000 survivors roam distracted. HUMAN BODIES STILL BURN II GORY SMYRNA Turks Carry off Girls Leaving Leav-ing Their Destitute Parents Frantic I SMYRNA, Sept. 21. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press. Although Sight days lhavo passed since fire obliterated Smyrna 75,000 survivors remain ejS j posed on thc quay, destitute distracted land abandoned No allied vessel has offered to salvage this last wreckaga Of human life In the greatest disaster in Asia's history. Nearly a dozen warships remain In I the harbor, but none show a disposition disposi-tion to aid tho wretched population except the American destroyers. Deportations De-portations continue ami Turkish soldiers sol-diers are beginning to carry off the ; Greek and Armenian girls, leaving their parents in a frantic state. ill MAN BODIES BURN ) Sporadic shooting and thefts on-tinue. on-tinue. Smoke is still emerging from 'the ruins. Th- Turkish authorities ex-I ex-I plain that this is due to the burning of 'human bodies Lt Wilfred Post of New York, medical director of the Near East relief, has urged the Turks 'to bury their deal. In order to prevent pestilence. He also ha.s appealed to , them to vaccinate every one, in order to guard against cholera and small-' small-' pox, Interviewed by the Associated Press todav, Mr Bost said; j "It Is regrettable that the allied ships did nol do more In salvaging human hu-man lives. The work of all the vessels chi the niKht of the fire was magnificent, magnifi-cent, but on the succeeding days when the impulse of tho great disaster dls-I dls-I appeared) there was a lull In their en-ergy en-ergy and spirit. COULD Ml l TUOl SANDS "If we hud kept up the work there 'would now be no evacuation problem land thousands would haw I l saved which might otfcftrwish i.- deported or I killed There are so many bodies In ithe streets that 1 had. on one occasion, to alight from m automobile to lift a corpse out of the path of the car No words can describe the fire as a spectacle. "It was like a gigantic scene staged 'by Nero It was so vast and complete that It had every appearance of being I malevolently planned In advance ' oo |