GREEK VICTIMS
, OF TURKISH ATROCITIES. Press Association- -By Telegraph— Copyright, LONDON, August _ 17. The British Armenian Committee issue* tragic statements made by Miss Ethel Thonqison, an American, and formerly an orphanage worker in Anatolia. She says that the Talks drove ghastly line* of starving Greek women and children 500 miles without food or clothing, until thousand* dropped dead. The bodies wore left bv tho roadside, where the vultures devoured them. Miss Thompson saw .300 tonal' children driver, in a circle and beaten with the fiats of heavy swords. Girls disfigured their faces by dyeing them in order to hide their beauty, hoping films to avoid being taken to tno harems. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18050, 18 August 1922, Page 4
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114GREEK VICTIMS Evening Star, Issue 18050, 18 August 1922, Page 4
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