RETREAT OF THE GREEKS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 490, 31 August 1922, Page 5

RETREAT OF THE GREEKS.

EVACUATION OF KARA HISSAR. SURPRISE TURKISH ATTACK. . . ATHENS, Aug. 29. A communique states: “Owing to a vio lent enemy olleusive, wo have ordered the evacuation of Kara Hissar, and the occupied line in the west. Wo repulsed an enemy cavalry charge at Elvanlar.V—A, ami N.Z. cable CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 29. Mustapha Rental's capture of the Kara Hissar railhead is a crushing blow CO Greece, whose forces are cut in two. Mustapha Kernel secretly massed picked infantry behind the lines last week, and when the artillery barrage began at three o dock in tho morning, the Greeks wero taken completely by surprise. Their battones’ reply was unable to check the fierceness of tho Turkish firing, and by noon a huge breach was effected in the Greek line, the Greeks falling back rapidly. Tho lurks swept onward and drove the retreating Greeks into tho open country. They have cut tho railway and other communications between the northern and southerc Greek armies—A. and N.Z. cable. BRITISH POLICY BLAMED. LONDON, Aug. 29. The Daily Express states: “The renewal of tho Greco-Turkish war is primarily due to the vacillating British policy and inability to reach an agreement with France. A Franco-British settlement could impose terms on both sides at any time. After the Greeks’ disastrous failure to capture Angora, France made a separate agreement with Kemal. We half-heartedly supported Greece though wo do not owe nor any gratitude on account of her wjjr behaviour. She is lighting a war of conquest with Turkey.”— A. and N.Z. cable.