PANIC IN THRACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 251, 23 October 1922, Page 5

PANIC IN THRACE.

FLIGHT FROM EASTERN AREA. BRIGANDAGE RAMPANT. LONDON", October 2-. i A graphic account of panic among the \ • •reek -ullages on t!ic >)u.rcs of the Sea of Marmora lus been received from Mr.! Martin ]>onoiioe l.y the "l>dil> j Chronicle." Th r inhabitants arc b^nt • fin leaving, fearing Turki.-ii reprisals ' iwhm the. Allies withdraw. The entire j population of a village camped on the ! beach awaiting transport, its grain ; abandoned. : Refugees ore bitilly panic-stricken. j Women rilthml waist deep into the »ea. ; in>lrling lml>ics above the water, and j pleade 1 piteouslv to bo taken ahoari j already ..veri-rowde.'. shins. The British i :ire doing their utmost to allay fne panic. ' j • A sign of the unsettled and lawless j j stale prevailing is that brigandage is | ramnant in part* of Thrace, and piracy j U rife on the Marmora roast. Turkish Corsairs in fast-sailing armed craft, arc i raiding Christian villages on the Asiatic ,Ki,l«. looting them and nblurting women, j I The npiH'ial correspondent of the "'Daily : Express' , at Adrianoplc. says the entire streets of that city are forsaken, ready for Turkish occupation. The few Greeks remaining wear the fez. signifying their ! allegiance to Ke.mal. "I saw a 10-mile [stream of refugees," states the correjspomlent. 'They had little or no food. 1 and had passed many sleepless nights. They gave a. great sigh of relief when they found themselves in Western Thrace.. The whole population seems to I be fieeinu. W 7 agor:s are almost breaking under their load?."' j Dr. Xansen has already spent £30.0(10 I for grain, and U sending relief to the Wrst. I Replying tf> !>>rd Curzon. M. Poincare ] agrees that the Near Eastern Conference 'should h< , held at Lausanne on November 13, at which Turkey, Greece. Britain. France. Italw Japan. Rumania, and •Tusroslavia will be represented. Russian delegates have been invitpd to assist in ] dealing with the matter of the Straits.— iI A. and N.Z. Cable.)