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Show KIM, BAND OF FLEEING .MEN GREEK LOSS OF MORALE DEMONSTRATED DEM-ONSTRATED BY REFUSAL OF RESERES TO DISEMBARK Rumors That King of Greece Intends To Abduct Are Current in Several European Cities Smyrna. Only an eye-wilness can realize the exent of the disaster to the Greek army which is termed by many one of the , Most decisive in military history. An army of 150,000 men well equipped equip-ped has been transformed in less than two weeks into a virtual band of refugees. ref-ugees. An official Turkish statement says 400 Greek officers and 10,tXK) men have been captured since the offense was launched, together with 500 motor mo-tor trucks, 350 guns and a million rounds of artillery ammunition. The Greek loss wf morale is illustrated illus-trated by the reported refusal of a battalion of reserves rushed here from Athens to disembark. A contingent contin-gent of Senegalese which arrived Thursday on a French transport also did not land, owing, it is said, to some disagreement. The whole of Smyrna hinterland has been ravaged by the Turk and refugees continue to pour into the city by the thousands. A Turkish airplane Thursday flew over the town and dropped phamplets announcing an-nouncing the "ocmplete liberation of Asia Minor." The government archives have been placed on shipboard for safety and the Smyrna brandies of the national bank and the Bank of Athens are closed. A state of panic prevails throughout Ionia and the British high commissioner commis-sioner has telegraphed to .Constantinople .Constanti-nople asking that relief supplies be rushed here as it is feared the grave food shortage would result in disorder. disor-der. The foreign population is in trepidation trepi-dation less the Greeks explode the immense stores of munitions in the city to prevent them from falling to the Kemalists. A number of American destroyers are anchored in the harbor which with its concentration of warships of all the powers resembles the scene of a huge naval pageant. The Standard ' Oil , company has chartered steamships to carry its property and personnel to safety and 30 ships are in readiness to remove refugees to the ' outlying Islands if necessary. The resignation of the Greek government gov-ernment comes as no surprise in view of the press cables of the last few days describing the reaction in Athens to the dashing of Greek military, hopes in Anatolia. M. Kalogei'bpoulos, the premier-designate, premier-designate, in addition to being one of the cleverest lawyers in his country, is also experienced in military affairs, and held the portfolio of minister "of war simultaneously with that of premier pre-mier in the cabinet which he formed in September 1916. VHiring his administration he stead, fastly upheld the Greek claims to Smyrna and Thrace and opposed the appointment of an international coin-mission coin-mission to study the status of these districts. He was succeeded as per-meir per-meir by Demetris Gounaris in April, 1P21. |