SUPREME TRAGEDY
GREAT TREK FROM ANATOLIA TURKS EXPEL CHRISTIANS. A TALE OF HORROR. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 28. (Received November 29, at 9.15 a.m.) The ‘Daily Telegraph’s’ Constantinople correspondent saiys that he apprehends terrible loss of life in the great trek (from Anatolia towards tho Black Sea and Mediterranean ports. Piteous messages foreshadow the effects, which will shock the world. It is understodl that the Angora Government has ordered all Christians to leave within a month, and 1,600,000 are either preparing for their departure or ax© on the road in long-drawn-out columns. They are having an appalling time in crossing the enow-covered country. Ten thousand Christians and 2,000 orphan children have left Sivas, while a wireless message from Samson to the American naval authorities savs; "Gan you take 1,000 mountain children? If not, it means their end.” .. The American destroyer at Tremzond wirelessed that she cannot hold up .the evacuation of the town much longer. H© says; "Wo ore overwhelmed with refugees from the interior, and unless additional transportation' ia immediately provided thousands -will perish.”—A. and) N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18137, 29 November 1922, Page 6
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