He had any amount of batteries and could have blown us clean out of the water. You remember when they ordered us not to come in to take off anj more? I had the wind up when we came in that morning. They never knew what the old Turk would do. They were all out there on the pier and it wasn't at all like an earthquake or that sort of thing because they never knew about the Turk. I told a medical chap about it and he told me it was impossible. Exactly as though she had been dead over night. Her legs drew up and she drew up from the waist and went quite rigid. They said, "Will you have a look at her, sir?" So I had a look at her and just then she died and went absolutely stiff. Hemingway's narrative is accurate, but not nearly as grisly as the London Times reported: A stream of refugees is still leaving Smyrna, and my informant described the quay last night as packed with dense crowds herded together inside a cordon of Turkish regulars, while searchlights of foreign warships in the harbour played upon them. Those who survived the onslaught sought escape on the quai at Smyrna on the Aegean Sea, where British warships hovered close by. The Greek section of the city of Smyrna was burned by marauding Turkish soldiers and civilians as they killed 125,000 Greeks. The war also inspired "On the Quai at Smyrna," a short story about the dreadful events of 1922. ".There was a woman having a baby with a young girl holding a blanket over her and crying. While reporting on the war he wrote in his pocket account book his impressions and what he paid for wine, meals, taxis, and cabling stories. Ernest Hemingway was 23 years old reporter of Toronto Star in Europe and writes his first stories as he lives with his own eyes the destruction of the most beautiful city in minor Asia by fire, Smyrna 1922.
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