Turks Massacre Greeks

The New York Times, March 21st 1919, page 3.

TURKS MASSACRE GREEKS.
Great Unrest Reported Over Disposition of Smyrna Region.
Copyright, 1919, by The New York Times Company.
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
ATHENS, March 20. -- From a good source I learn that manoeuvres designed to misrepresent the ethnological situation in the Smyrna region, under foreign instigation, are assuming a scandalous character. It is also announced that some hundreds of Turks held a meeting on Saturday in the theatre at Smyrna to protest energetically against the eventual occupation of the city by Greece.
News from Smyrna reports many murders and robberies by bands of Turks against the Greek element in this region. The situation of the Greeks has become exceedingly critical.
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ATHENS, March 20, (Associted Press.) -- Information from what is considered a trustworthy source describes the condition of the Greeks in the Smyrna district as extremely critical. Bands of Turkish soldiers and civilians are overrunning the region, murdering and pillaging, the advices state.
At Budja, near Smyrna, last Thursday, according to the advices, a party of Greek peasants returning from the fields was attacked and numbers of them were killed. After the Turks had left the bodies of fifty Greeks, it is alleged, were found decapitated and partially burned.