ISMID PENINSULA

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 242, 7 July 1921, Page 5

ISMID PENINSULA

OCCUPIED BY KEMALISTS CONSTANTINOPLE’S DEFENCE By Telegraph—Free* Aisoclation —Copyright (Rec. July G, 9 p.m.) London, July 5. Constantinople, messages report that Kemafists have occupied nearly the whole of Ismid Peninsula. Some have even entered the neutral zone, threatening Constantinople. If is reported that a private meeting of Allied High Commissioners discussed the question of asking Rumania to send sufficient troops to defend the city if necessary.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REVOLTING STORY OF OUTRAGES BY GREEK REGULARS IN ISMID. fßeo. July 7, 0.45 d.m.) Constantinople, July 5. A French eye-witness of the pillaging at Ismid by Greek regulars prior to the arrival of the Kemalists. tells a revolting story of outrages. Women were violated, houses pillaged, and men murdered and subjected to frightful tortures. The Greeks also attempted to set fire to a convent where four thousand refugees were quartered. took photographs of two hundred horribly mutilated bodies. The Jewish and Turkish quarters of the town were almost entirely destroyed by fire.--«Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.