It is surely most regrettable that a man in M. Franklin Bouillon's position should give his support to the-story that it was the Greeks who set firs to Smyrna and, not content with this, should add that they also set fire to the whole of Anatolia. [be allegation against the Greeks as regards Smyrna was industriously propagated by French appalling event, but even" newspapers at the time of ce ese champions of the Kemalists did not go the length that the French to do. Judging by the Turks' re-igh Commissioner permits himself cord—the unspeakable massacres of Armenians during the war are not forgotten by everybody—it seems highly probable that they sct fire to the Christian quarters of Smyrna in the excitement produced by their capture of the town. The point to emphasize, however, is that no one can possibly tell who laid the first torch. We have a further example of the eagerness to vilify the Greeks in the French wireless statement that the refugees in Thrace are pillaging and burning the villages: against which Sir Charles Herrington, having caused an ac: oplane reconnaissauce to be made, reports that there is no trace of burning villages in Eastern Thrace. We do not pretend that the Greeks are saints: but at least, if no generosity of feeling can be spared them in their misfortunes, the cefulness of Eastern Europe is hardly well served by broadcasting slanders which are always open to doubt where they are- not actually disproved.
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