On Wednesday the Daily Mail published a first-hand descrip- tion
of the Greek exodus, cabled by Mr. G. Ward Price, who arrived at Smyrna on Friday, September 8th. What the Greek communiqué endeavours to colour as an orderly evacuation of troops and stores is characterized by Mr. Price, a skilled and experienced observer, as " a headlong flight." The whole civil and military population, he says, was trying to get away at once. The shabby steamships, great and small, which had been hastily collected were filled with soldiers " clustering like swarms of bees," whilst tugs and lighters and every available sailing boat were packed with refugees. The account reads like Mr. H. G. Wells's description of the flight from Harwich before the invading Martians. The bulk of the Greek army—horse, foot and guns—was streaming in confusion to Cheshme, the Brighton of Anatolia, whence it was ferried across to the island of Chios. The northern army, which seems to have put up a better fight around Brussa, was stated in Athens, on Monday, to be crossing the Sea of Mesmer& to reinforce the Greek troops in Thrace.
