PRESIDENT: InI response to your request for information regarding American citizens made destitute a a result of the disaster in Smyrna and the recent military operations in Anatolia. I beg to inform you of the receipt of the following telegraphic information from our officials in the Near East. Ott September 14 Consul General Horton reported his arrival at Piraeus from Smyrna with 150 destitute Americans and stated that approximately 350 more American refugees were expected to reach that port the next day. On September 15 Consul Morris telegraphed from Saloniki that " 600 destitute AmericanGreek refugees " had arrived from Stayrna. A recent dispatch from Admiral Bristol reports that a number of Americans are arriving in Smyrna from the interior of the country and Indicates that there tire a number of destitute Americans still in that city apart from those who have already been evacuated to Constantinople is well as to Greek ports. The department has telegraphed to Constantinople.
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