New-York tribune., 1909-05-01
MISSIONARIES SAFE.
Toerns Report Better Conditions
Fears of Epidemic.

Beirut April a0.-8Ir. Kennedy, the Tllsslolais'
has returned to Alexandretta from DeuTtyoI Ali0
reports the situation as mora hopeful and the
ronulsca holding out against the besiegers- lie
SAYS that thirty-six hundred persons are nome
less and absolutely destitute, that $40 Hou777
were burned and that entire villages had beeh
ruined. He reports that at Alexandretta c'A-l-
dence IS far from restored He begs that funrs be
sent him Immediately. He says the refugees at
Adsna REQUIRE $1,000 daily for -four alone and
that the sick and wounded need doctors nurses
and medicines.
NJ Kennedy saws that similar appeals are
comng IN from Alexandretta- Tarsls. 4S@IahI@
and Antioch and that there Is not one cent avail
able TO meet them The reports which have been
mailed inadeCuateIy describe the horrors attend
ing 1he rnassacres" he adds. The American pup
lie should not be misled- This is no small af1air'
and when the accounts Of il reach you the people
viii stand aEhast-"
Marash, April 8o-The situation has improved
here and the missionaries and the city are al ease
Many OF the surrounding villages however are IN
ruins.
In the early DAYS Of the outbreak twenty-five
Armenian pastors who were making their way TO
Adana 10 attend meeting Of the district ms
sonaries. were killed by the Moslems. They mad
taken refuge in q church during a storm. me
trlbesmen set the building fire. and the pastors
were shot down they came cut Of the door
Among them was Heghenian. who received his edu-
cation al Edinburgh and whose recent iInprisoIl-
ment al Constantinople caused the British govern
uent 10 protest TO Turkey.
AEersina- Asiatio Turkey. Thursday. April %
esrxna IS under martial law, and the Turkish au-
thoritles are maintaining order There is lack OF
fresh water, and the dead animals and garbage
filing the streets make the place scarcely haDl-
table Because Of these conditions, eight American
and English missionaries. mostly women, have de-
cided TO leave Mersina for healthier surroundings
The river which ernpties into the sea here still
carries down the bodies Of dead Christians from
the scene OF the rnassacres Among the ghastly
burdens Of the stream to-day was the mutilated
body Of q woman nailed 10 a cross
IAtakia Aurfi 2O.-Refugees are still coming
into Latakia from the devastated district north
ward. Their condition is pitiable, and as the
sanitary conditions of the barracks where they
being housed IS bad, epidemic Is feared
There has already been increase In the mum
Der of smallpox cases. Six hundred refugees are
ouartered the premises Of the mission main
tsined by the Reformed Presbyterian Church oi
America Arrangements being completed for
the return 10 the districts whence they came OF
thousand refugees. They 10 be accom-
panied by soldiers. American missionary prop"ertS
al Kessab has been destroyed by the Moslems.
The news OF the installation Of Mehmed V as
Sultan OF Turkey has been welcomed here Al
English man-of-war is IN the harbor and the city
Is quiet
The American Board of Commissioners for For
egn Missions maintains a girls high school al
Aessab. Miss Bfie III Chambers is in charge o.
THIS institution. The latest report from Miss
Chambers said there fifty girls in the schoo
sho that fifteen graduates had gone out 10 teaci
- the lower schools OF the region or TO contlnue
VIII the school there Is also a kindergarten hav'
-ag torty-fve pupils.