TURKISH ATROCITIES
TRAGIC STORY, OF: AMERIOANS
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:'r- •■ ""iv'^'LONPO^,-17th-'Aug^ £ ) "The">Briti«h Armenian Committee fias ilstaed i tragic statement by Miss Ethel i THompSon,; an vAmerican,' and , formerly '4fi:orbhan»ge worker in/jAnaiolia; ■ «She says the Turks;;1 drove: ghastly 'line* of starving\ Greeks/: wometij arid children, ! 800 mile» ■ without f oWd: or; clothing; • until thbusinds dropped d*ad. The bodies lwers'left ,by the, r6adsidß,;i#her* Viiltuteis . devbyed^Jthem.-::- v ; - Mi»;.- Thompson' [ Jiaw ■300:' small children driven inila citcl^ ajid beaten with ;the' 'flati'of he»yy sVbrds. .Girl»cdiifigured itheir/fades^ -by dyeing them /.to hide /their.; beauty ( i hdpint thjis \lo aybid beingtakeii for hareinfc: , i, «/
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1922, Page 7
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103TURKISH ATROCITIES Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1922, Page 7
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