PERSECUTIONS OF THE GREEKS IN TURKEY SINCE THE ...

CHAPTER VI
CONDITION OF THE DEPORTED PEOPLE
THE picture of the tragedy which has just been described
would be imperfect, if one did not glance at the
condition of those unfortunate Greeks, who, having been
deported, are wandering about the mountains and plains
of the interior of Anatolia, this country which is so inhospitable
to them. The misfortunes which these victims
of Teutonic Kultur and Turkish savagery are undergoing
cannot be paralleled even in the darkest epochs.
Deported, insulted, ill-treated, they are compelled to abjure
their faith. Each becomes the spectator of the destruction
of his neighbor and all of them together witness
daily outrages committed upon their wives and daughters.
They are dying of starvation every day. Who
is going to give them medicine? Who will bury their
dead?
This situation is pictured in a report dated July 28th
and transmitted through a communication of the Greek
Legation at Constantinople, No. 5832 (Ministerial
Archives, No. 12092) which is as follows:
" In the station of Ak-Sakal we found 200 refugees
from Madytos and 150 from Krithia, who, after the
evacuation of Mehanion, were scattered in the grounds
of the above-mentioned station without food or water.
In the station of Oktsi-Ghiol we found 250 other inhabitants
of Krithia and Madytos who for fifty days have
lived under a burning sun and in the humidity of the
night, in a desperate condition. As to the refugees of the
district of Prokonnesos who have been scattered in the
district of Sousourlouk and Baloukeser, neither is their
number known nor the names of the villages in which
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