Life and Light for Woman, Vol. 52

Excerpt from Life and Light for Woman, Vol. 52: October, 1922 As we go to press the whole Christian world is aroused by the newspaper reports of atrocities in Smyrna following the vic tory of the Kemalists over the Greeks, which was accompanied by the usual cruelties. Sections of the city were fired by the Turks after four days of massacre and plunder. The number of sufferers is reported to run into the hundred thousands. Two direct mes sages to the American Board assure us that all Smyrna mission aries are safe, but give few details. Three American destroyers did valiant service in taking off refugees and among them were the American women and children who were carried to Athens. A cable, signed by Miss Annie Pinneo, reported that the Misses mccallum, Mills, Gordon, Greene, Grobie, and Snell were with her in Greece, and we know that Miss Morley has since joined them. A later cable from Miss Mills says that the single women are engaged in relief work among multitudes of destitute refugees and that the food situation in Greece is critical. The Armenian quarter of Smyrna was entirely destroyed by fire, including the buildings of our girls' school. Construction had not begun on our new property in the suburbs. The fate of the schoolgirls and teachers, the majority of whom were Greek and Armenian, is not yet known, but a reference in Miss Mills' cable leads us to think that some may have escaped. On the destroyers. In view of the terrible destruction of life and property, our Board of Directors, at their meeting September 18, passed resolu tions which were telegraphed to President Harding, urging our Government to protest immediately against such contempt for civilizedl law and to send warships at once to stand with those of the Allies in protecting Constantinople. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.