Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-01-03

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and Progress is that its rame is a
mis1omer, for the Committee stood
neither for union nor for progress.
Kiamil Pasha's cabinet had a hard
task. They inherited the war, the
alrMy was what the Committee OF
Union and Progress had made 1t. and
1.-THE country was filled with their APP
p%ointces in office. There has been
no serious disorder In this city dur.
ing the war. Robert college has not
MISSED one day of lessons. The
greatest danger was in the provinces.
AS or old, when any trouble arose
lin the Roman empire, they cried,
THE Christians to the lions!" SO in
the Turkish empire the Christians
have usually suffered when things
went wrong. The An.nenian Patriarch
and his Council have been i'm great
lanxiety for their people in Adana. in
the Bitlis and Van region, and in 9th.
Ter parts, and they had reason to be
anxious. We all shared their ankle
|ty and do yet. Burt there has been
no general massacre in the Asiatic
provinces. There have been disor-
ders and some lives have <beea lost,
but nothing like what we feared has
taken place, and we who know the
country are sure that there would
have been very serious massacres
there had not the government exe1-
Icised n strong control Over the tllrbu-
lent populations.
This war is saddeniag to all who
love Turkey and the Turks. It has
drawn upon Jun sygnpathies and has
Shocked us with it's horrors, but there
lis a bright side which has not APP
Ipeared i'm the newspapers, and THAT Is
1.-THE dignity, strength and wisdom OF
the government, struggling against
tremendous difficulties to keep order
and accomplish Its task. @ H.
There is n other thing l must
speak of, thoargh l find it difficult to
write about it. When things were so
'congested that the government could
not even feed Its soldiers, lit was not
to be expected that the hospital serv-
ice and THE care OF the wounded
would be perfect. The hospitals that
were organized in Constanti1ople at
the outbreak OF the war were we'll
equipped, clean and ready for their
work, but when the wounded filled
these, and they had to provide more,
they took barracks which were Very
dirty, and the people who had charge.
Of them did not seem to know what
to do. Much time vas lost and many
wounded died for lack of care.
There whas lack OF system in the re-
ception of the wounded at the station
when tine trains came n from the
front, and often tley remained many
hours without care without water,
Suffering severely. But tine worst
scenes were perhaps at st. Stephano.
This station is on the railroad be-
tween the Chataldja Lines and Con
s%tantinople. It became a sort OF re-
.ceiving station for the sick. Cholera
prevailed, though | think Gnudh that
was called cholera was not true chol.
era.
These sick men we're taken off the
train ait st. Steptnano, in order not to
bring contagion into the city, but
pains were mot taken to see that ar.
u Gl~hSClllClLIo WcIc uII0Oc iOI CdllIlO lVi
them. Sick men, wounded men who
were also sick, and dead men lay
around upon the. ground without shell.
ter. The dead were not buried. OF.
ten a sick man was found with his
held pillowed upon q dead man. The
sick were calling tor water. 1t was
a sickening scene, and many we're
afraid ITO help these sufferers from
fear of ccntagion, and many knew
nothing about the sad conditions pre-.
vailing there.
The American Red Cross discover
ed this plague. spot through MI. Hoff-
man Phillip, first secretary of the Ann
erican embassy. Mr.. Phillip, the Rev.
Robert Frew, and DR.. Ford, with two
Swiss ladies, went there and set to
work. They buried the dead; they
cleaned UP the place and disinfected
it. They fed the sick and gave them