Women Massacred by Turks

The Fitchburg Daily Sentinel, July 22nd 1915, page 3.

WOMEN MASSACRED BY TURKS.
Paris, July 22, 12.15 a.m.—A Havas dispatch from Athens says:
“Turkish military authoriries, according to advices received from Vurla (a port in Smyrna on the Gulf of Smyrna), have ordered all Christian women and children to leave the town and go into the interior. Many of the residents refused to obey the order, and a fierce struggle followed, in which many were victims.
“The Greek government has received from the Porte no reply to representations regarding the persecution of Greeks in Turkish territory. The delay is attributed to the difficulties of communication by telegraph.”