Allgemeine Zeitung 5th of July 1822 An extensive article from an eyewitness regarding the events following the massacre: The Samians had dug trenches along the coast outside the city of Chios and were fighting from there. An Ottoman warship approaching the island was destroyed by the Greeks, resulting in the deaths of 80 men. Following this incident, the Kapudan Pasha decided to expedite the full landing of his troops, thus commencing the great battle.The Samians had met with Logothetis and Bournias (Chatziantonis) and attempted to organize a counter-attack. Ultimately, they decided to evacuate the island, first liberating the 200 revolutionaries who were besieged in Nea Moni. The Turks, finding no insurgents near the city, began setting fires and slaughtering the elderly and infants. Several European consuls from Smyrna met with the Kapudan Pasha and pleaded with him to stop the atrocities. Eventually, the Kapudan Pasha sent envoys to locate the Greek leaders at Nea Moni to discuss a surrender. On the road to Nenita, however, they found only the corpses of Turks, as the Greeks had fled to the mountains.Upon meeting the envoys, the Greeks declared they would surrender if granted amnesty. Consequently, the Kapudan Pasha sent a letter to the German consul—referring to the Greeks as "bandits"—to inform him of the surrender. 30,000 women and children have been taken as slaves from Chios. Many of them are being transported to Çeşme, where soldiers are slaughtering them. Fatma, the Sultan's sister, was distraught as the island's revenues had significantly decreased. For this reason, the Sultan granted her a large number of slaves as compensation. Fatma, however, refused the slaves and stated angrily that the Kapudan Pasha should have slaughtered the Moraites (Peloponnesians), who were the true enemies of the faith, rather than the peaceful Chians.