Word: smyrna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American colleges in the Near East are of two classes, the coast colleges at Constantinople, Smyrna and Beirut, which are relatively prominent, and the interior colleges, which are seen by fewer travellers and are less well known...
According to the latest modifications of the Near Eastern settlement, the Allied Governments have decided to deprive Greece of Smyrna, Thrace, and her other Asia Minor possessions. In resentment of this decree, Greece has launched against Turkey an offensive which has two objectives. In the first place, she is pushing toward the junction of the Bagdad Railroad and a branch line that leads to Angora. The second offensive is against Aflun-Kara Hissar, another railroad terminal. Here the operations are most important, because, if successful, the Greeks will cut off the Turks from Cilicia in their attempt to join their...