The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-16
SULTAN SIGNS THE PAPERS
Dreadful News Comes from the
Zeitoun BattIefi Id.
DR.. HubbeII Will Soon Lead the First
and Mountains, to Hunger, Naked
ness, Smallpox and Typhus-Pro-
gress of the Good Work Will Be
Very Rapid from LAS Time On.

NEW YORK, March 15.-The following
are extracts from a report by mail from
Miss Clara Barton of the American Red
Cross here. The report is dated Con-
stantinople, February 25. Miss Barton
says:
+ Immediately upon our arrival here,
Judge Terrell lost no time in notifying the
Turkish government and asking an au-
dience for me with the foreign minister.
This was granted and held on the 18th.
We were then informed that the permit
was granted for my party to enter into
the interior to afford relief for the suffer
ing people there and that no distractions
would be put in our way. Mr.. Terrell at
once cabled that information to Mr..
Olney, but the permit or papers are to be
SIGNED BY THE SULTAN.
This is the time of the great fast of
Ramasan, during which no work but the
ordinary labor is supposed TO be done
and the papers have thus waited until
now. Minister Terrell yesterday demand
ed, through the Russian ambassador, that
the papers be attended to, and he waits
in much certainty for favorable action i'm
mediately Since the date of this letter
cable dispatches have announced the
signing of the papers by the sultan and
the issuance of the necessary permits and
passports.
.rhe report continues:
Meanwhile we are not losing a
moments time. Dreadful news comes in
from the battlefield of Zeitoun. 1t has not
failed to reach. you, for it went to the
press. Sir Phillip Currie has asked that
we send relief to Zeitoun and we are
getting out supplies ready for shipment
via Alexandria,. Our agents are today
purchasing supplies to be taken by cara
van from AleXandretta- There are always
IL - -oN1y
going over, and this occupies a week in
voyage across. Our dragomen are ready.
The Turkish guard will be provided and
DIR. Hubbell VIII lead
THE FIRST DETACHMENT
up into the SHOWS and mountains. to
hunger. nakedness, smallpox and typhus.
We find supplies as cheap here as at
home, some even cheaper. 1t is said
-food-such as grain. flour, etc, can be
found all through the interior. DR.. Hub
bell VIII see what need there is for seed
and other materials for helping the des-
titute people to raise something for them
selves. We shall employ our customary
methods in our endeavor to assist the
people to provide for themselves as soon
as circumstances will permit.
A recent letter from the Rev. DR.. judi
son Smith, secretary of the American
board of commissioners for foreign mis-
sions Boston, addressed to the represen> "a
tives of the Red Cross here, says:
Il have been delighted to learn of Miss
Barton's entry into Constantinople, of the
success of her interview, and of the free
dom which had been extended to the Red
Cross for its
GRACIOUS WORK OF RELIEF
in every part of the empire. 1t is exactly
the issue 1 expected. All the funds which
have come into our hands have been
forwarded direct to our Mr.. Peel. We
shall continue to send whatever comes to
lis to Mr.. Peel as heretofore. in the ex-
pectation, however. that such sums will
be combined with the sums which Brown
Bros. & Co. remit, and constitute the
one fund which now under the Red Cross
auspices will be distributed everywhere in
the Turkish empire. OF the perfect under
standing between Miss Barton and the
Red Cross on the one hand and our mis-
sionaries, both at Constantinople and
everywhere in the interior on the other
hand, 1 have not the faintest doubt. Our
missionaries will give the warmest posi-
BILE welcome to the Red Cross agents,
will at once aid their efforts to the effec-
tive prosecution of relief in this new
form, and will account themselves abund-
antly rewarded for all their services if
they see the suffering somewhat reduced.
There can be put