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...main questions outstanding are a settlement of the insurance question for the Smyrna fire and the settlement of the method of paying the Ottoman debt−France at present demanding gold, Turkey offering paper money...
...Turks claimed $750,000,000 to indemnify them for damage and loss of life caused by the Greeks in Anatolia during their retreat to Smyrna last Fall. The Greeks replied with a counter claim for $500,000,000 for damage and loss of life caused by the Nationalist Turks prior to the Spring of 1921. Both declined to pay. The Turks pointed out that it was unusual for the vanquished to demand an indemnity from the victor. The Greeks contended that they were invited by the Allies to administer a mandate in Turkey in accordance with the terms...
Greeks in Asia Minor on August 28, of last year. On September 9, Turkish troops entered Smyrna after the Greek army had evacuated the town. September 29, the principal Allied Powers issued a note inviting Turkey to a conference at Lausanne. Another peace egg was laid, and again Turkey refused to hatch it. The present conference is then a peace conference between the Allied and Associated Powers and Turkey on the one hand and Greece and Turkey on the other. The United States is acting separately...
...educational and business methods. Speaking through an interpreter in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter, Dr. Fuad who was formerly Turkish Minister of Health and Child Welfare, described the work being conducted by the Nationalist government along hygienic and educational lines. When asked to comment on affairs in Smyrna, Dr. Fuad said he had nothing to say on the subject...
Those Protestant missions which suffered such a severe check in the recent revival of Turkish nationalism are again taking heart. Robert College and the Women's College at Constantinople are open, though carrying on with a reduced student body. The International College at Smyrna has just been reopened. The buildings were rifled, but not burned. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Congregational) has no disposition to withdraw from the Turkish Empire, despite its dangers and handicaps...