Massacre of Christians Reported in Western Asia

The Chronicle Telegram, June 3rd 1921, page 1.

MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS REPORTED IN WESTERN ASIA
(International News Service.)
LONDON. June 3—A terrible massacre of Christians, mostly Greeks, has taken place at Samsun and Trebizond, in Turkey, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Athens this afternoon.
An American destroyer has arrived at Samsun to protect Americans. The streets of Samsun and Trebizond were said to be strewn with Greek corpses, and many shops were pillaged. Both Samsun and Trebizond are in Anatolia on the Black Sea.