The collapse of Greek resistance to the well-organized attack of
the Turkish Nationalist army in Asia Minor proves to have been even more sudden and complete than appeared credible when we went to press last week. The rapidity of the Turkish advance is proved by the fact that the new Greek Commander-in-Chief, General Tricoupis, had barely taken over his unenviable teak when he was captured by a party of Turkish cavalry, with the whole of his staff, at Ushak—famous for its carpets—some sixty miles west of Afium Karahissar. The wind of demoralization had blown so fast throughout the Greek army that no further resistance of any kind could be organized. The Kemalist leaders were evidently well aware of this fact, and paid no attention to the request for an armistice, to be followed at once by a Greek evacuation of the whole of Asia Minor, which the Greek Government desperately forwarded to them On Thursday, September 7th, through the Allied Embassies in Constantinople. The advance was continued along the railway line with remarkable speed, and on Saturday the Turkish troops entered Smyrna without opposition.
