Smyrna Burning

The Times, September 15th 1922, page 10.

SMYRNA BURNING.
MASSACRE FEARS.
(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
ATHENS, SEPT. 14.
The larger part of the European quarter of Smyrna is burning. According to an American eye-witness, Miss Mills, headmistress of the American College, the fire was started by a sergeant of Turkish regulars, who entered a house carrying tins of petroleum. Estimates of the damage caused by the fire up to last evening amount to £15,000,000. The British inhabitants, with few exceptions, were safely evacuated last evening on board the warships. The British Consul-General and Vice-Consul were known to be safe up to 7 o'clock last night.
It is reported here that up to the outbreak of the fire about one thousand persons had been massacred, but it is feared here that the number is now much greater.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT IN THE NEAR EAST.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 14.
Fire broke out in the Armenian quarter of Smyrna and spread to the European quarter, where several Consulates and other houses have been destroyed. United States and Allied contingents were landed, but have been unable to prevent the extension of the fire, which now threatens the whole European quarter. British refugees from Smyrna state that there have been cases of robbery from British subjects and houses.
ATHENS, SEPT. 13. -- According to a Greek journalist who escaped from Smyrna on board the Messageries steamer Lamartine, Mgr. Chrysostomos, the Orthodox Metropolitan of Smyrna and the Gregorian Armenian Archbishop have been murdered.--Reuter.