TUSKS SUPERIOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1921, Page 5

TUSKS SUPERIOR.

- OF THE GREEKS.

FAILURE OF OFFENSIVE. PLEA TO STOP WAR. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 15, 5.5 p.m. LondQD, Sept. 15. The Turkish situation is attracting much attention. The Daily Express states that the Greek offensive has failed, but the full extent cannot be stated, because the Greeks have a strangle-hold on the cables. The Greeks get no sympathy in their misfortunes; they went to war to get a full pound of flesh. Britain committed an error in allowing them to do so, as every Moslem thought we were backing the Greeks against the Turks. Now ife the opportunity to •remedy the mistake; the war in Asia Minor must be stamped ouc and justice done for the legitimate Turkish claims. The Constantinople correspondent of the Morning Post states that at a great meeting of Moslems the Afghan Ambassador made a fiery speech, declaring that Turkey was being attacked because it was Moslem. He said it was regrettable that owing to distance Moslem countries cannot aid one another. The effervescence in Afghanistan, India, Tunis and Algeria shows that the movement for Moslem unity is extending. The special correspondent of the Daily Express at Constantinople mailed a dispatch in order to escape the Greek censorship. He says the Greeks are retreating, having failed to capture Angora, and they suffered terrible losses in killed, wounded and sick. Dysentery and other diseases cost at least ten thousand men. If the Turks had sufficient and efficient transport they would sweep the Greeks into the sea. The Turkish victory was gained by sheer valor and good generalship, for they opposed an enemy far superior in numbers and equipment. The Turks had practically no aeroplanes. The fighting at the Sakaria river was of the most desperate character, but few details are to hand. If anyone supposes that the Islamic world is going to be subdued through the Greeks he k making a big mistake. The Greek Government is making frantic efforts to hide the truth.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable

WINTER CAMPAIGN PROBABLE*

London, Sept. 14.

The Times Smyrna correspondent States that the Greeks are finding unexpected resistance in their advance on Angora. Both sides are worn out, but are preparing for a renewal of the struggle, and a winter campaign is probable.