WAR IN ASIA MINOR

Evening Star, Issue 17731, 4 August 1921, Page 7

WAR IN ASIA MINOR

GREEKS IN STRONG POSITION. WELCOMED BY PEOPLE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 2. The ‘Daily Telegraph’s special correspondent with the Greek army states that the Greeks strongly hold the Bagdad railway as far as Eakishehr. Kemal’s munitions were inadequate at the commencement of the campaign, and they are now so depleted that it is impossible for him to attempt a serious attack. Ho maintains near Angora a semblance of an army estimated at 50,000, chiefly in order to impress the European Powers, but the force is lacking in equipment and morale. The men are deserting continually at the .first opportunity. The correspondent states that it is entirely true that the populace receivedthe Greeks in the captured areas as liberators. They were delighted to escape the Kemalist exactions, and the depredations of the irregular bandits.— a. and N.Z. Gable. SECRET DIPLOMACY. GREEK RESENTMENT. LONDON, August 2. The same correspondent states that King Constantine and M. Gournaris are convinced that the attitude of some of the European Powers is encouraging Kemal’s attitude. The Powers have apparently postponed recognition of the Greeks' victory and their superiority in Asia, Minor, similarly to their withholding recognition of King Constantino, Greece, therefore, is thrown on her own resources, and is determined to continue her efforts until her right to liberate her kinsmen in Asia is recognised.—A. and N.Z. Cable.