WAR IN ANATOLIA

Otago Witness, Issue 3524, 27 September 1921, Page 14

WAR IN ANATOLIA

GREECE’S FAILURE. LONDON. September 18. An Athens communique, reviewing the victorious advance in Anatolia in July and August, says: It was considered inadvisable to pursue the enemy further. The army occupied the left bank of the Sakal’ia River, the operation of crossing being carried out successfully’ without molestation, The enemy’ at dawn tried to cross the river, but they were attacked and driven back. The newspapers in Athens are talking of the possibility of the Government trying to get the Asia Minor question settled, diplomatically, now that military operations have ceased. GREECE WANTS INTERVENTION. LONDON, September 18. The Geneva correspondent of the Daily Express says : The Greek deleagtion asked Lord Robert Cecil to request the League of Nations to intervene in the TurcoGreek conflict. It is noteworthy that' the delegation a week ago flouted the idea of intervention, but it has changed its mind now that the army has failed. It is unlikely that the League will act until hostilities have teased. The Daily Telegraph’s Smyrna correspondent says that the retreat is a bitter disappointment to the Greek public. The news had been held back until the retreat was successfully accomplished. During the battle it was discovered that the Kemalists were more abundantly supplied with ammunition than was expected. The King and the High Command decided that the Greek army was making needless sacrifices. TURKS ASSIST THE ALLIES. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 18. The general commanding the troops of occupation has issued a proclamation declaring that the Turkish authorities cooperated loyally’ during the past week in carrying out the orders which were promulgated on account of the recent plot; consequently’ the time limit was cancelled on condition that the Turks continued their efforts to hand over the accused, and that no similar oragnisation is permitted to threaten the tranquillity of tho capital. LULL IN THE FIGHTING. LONDON. September 22. The Constantinople correspondent of Tho Times reports that the latest information is that the Greeks have fallen back to a line running from Misalij to the heights east of Sivrihissar. The Greeks did not pursue the Keanalists.