Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-09-18

wide stills and a triple hanging of
heavy blankets across the bay win
dows to keep out the stray bullets.
Bullet Holes in the Walls.
THE need of such protection is evi.
denced by the many broken tiles on
our roof, and forty or more bullet
holes in the walls and the broken
windows through which four balls
have entered our living rooms. Some
times the air huns with the constant
flying of bullets over and through the
premises, and it is a miracle that so
few have been hurt. 1t was an ex-
citing moment when an unexpected
cannon ball struck the wall of our
house only ten inches above the head
Of the mayors wife, who was outside
the study door, and fell harmless at
her feet. The same morning another
cannon ball fell into the stable yard
few feet from where Neville (Dr
Ussher's SOM was standing. He
brought the empty shell in, still warm,
to show us.
seats from the school rooms have been
removed to make floor space. Many
are huddled in the low dark basement
Of the church; the audience room and
galleries are crowded. The schools
are filled even to the Railways. The
hospital is considered ordinarily to be
full If 1t has 80 patients, now lao
are under its roof. There are at
least 5000 refugees on our premises,
and as many more in the near vicin-
ity. The German compound resem-
bles ours and Sbardone feeds between
thirty and forty at his table.
How Armenians Make Ammunition.
THE Armenians have shown won
derful ingenuity in making gunpow-
der, dynamite bombs and serviceable
bullets. They make a mortar to throw
bombs, and now are at work on four
cannon, the only weapons the Turks
have which they have not. l visited
their cartridge factory last week. 1t
ess from the start, when disks of
copper were cut from plates, to the fin
ished product of a polished cartridge
with even English lettering on the
end. Everything was handmade, but
between 1000 and 5000 cartridges is
the daily output.
Il never imagined that | could be
so interested in munitions of war, or
hope so fervently that the revolution
lists should win, but it is now a ques-
ton of saving the remnant of the peo-
pie from massacre and starvation, of
defending their lives and homes from
fiendish cruelty, and we exult over
every advance of the little band and
pray that in some way permanent help
may come to them.
After three weeks of fighting in
the city the Armenians have the ad-
vantage. But in the defenseless viii
lagos the story Is very different. 1t
is wholesale and systematic massacre
of as many as possible and the taking
of many prisoners and sending them
later to the head of the revolutionsts
to be fed. In this way starvation will
finish the slaughter.
From the first the most of our refu-
gees were villagers, some from many
miles away. When our premises could
hold no more the houses near by and
protected by the positions held by
the revolutionists were filled. 1t Is
estimated that at least 10000 fugitives
are being fed in the gardens. 1t is
impossible to do justice to their con-
dition. Fleeing without time to col
lect their food, they come to us rag
ged. barefoot, hungry and sick from
exposure and fear.
Many of the regular Turkish SOL
diers are averse to butchery, so the
vail has promised plumber and glory
to the lawless Kurds, who are nothing
loath to do his will. One morning
40 women and children, dying or
wounded from Turkish bullets, were
brought to our hospital. Little ones
crying pitifully for their mothers, who
were Killed while fleeing, and moth
ers mourning for their children whoa
tlley had to leave behind on the plains.
Some Of our orphan girls ask us If
God will forgive them for leaving one
child thus when as they were carry
ing one and leading another they
could not manage the third. ! could
tell you stories which would simply
break your hearts, but it is needless
to harrow your feelings"