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Show HUGE ARMENIAN LOSS N SMYRNA Four Thousand Members of Community Missing Or Held Prisoners ATHENS, Dec. 9 (By The Associat-j id Praia.) The Iossph ol the Armenian Armen-ian community 1" Smyrna total $118.-. 000 00). according to a tabulation made by a committee under the direction direc-tion of "the bishop of Smyrna. 1 SLtv million of this total la lu real and personal property, und the remainder re-mainder In intangible assets llko stocks und bonds in Armenian companies operating op-erating In Asia Minor. The annual In-j come of B.000 Armenian families in, Smyrna used to be S7.r.w.0. whTCor, 16 per cent was glv-n to charities and to the church. . -, . Smyrna, which was the richest Armenian Ar-menian community in the w-c .rll be-, fore the couilng of the Turkish arm:-. I had 20 millionaires, but today every one of these men Is virtually penniless. The largest losers are the landowners, t-.xtll. Importer und exporters or fruits, cereals, carpet and opium Th number of Armenians killed UQ Smyrna, according to conimlttc. is 4,000, and the number of persons Who are missing or who have been mad' prisoners IS stated to be 8.000 men and 15.000 women. hnal. The most promment Armenian bu?i-men bu?i-men killed were Sarkis Mo KM-partan KM-partan landowners, and Gurullan and Panosstan. textile merchants. |