A TRAGIC PICTURE.
CRUELTY TOWARDS GREEKS. HORROR SPREAD BY TURKS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 17, 8.50 p.m. London, August 17. The British Armenian Committee issues a tragic statement by Mies Ethel Thompson, an American, and formerly an orphanage worker in Anatolia. She says the Turks drove ghastly lines of starving Greeks, women and children, five hundred miles without food or clothing until thousands dropped dead. The bodies were left by the roadside, where vultures devoured them. MLss Thompson saw three hundred small children driven in a circle and beaten with the flats of heavy swords. Girls disfigured their faces by dying them to hide their beauty, hoping thus to avoid being taken for harems.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1922, Page 5
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117A TRAGIC PICTURE. Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1922, Page 5
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