Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-08-13

Most OF the horses In the city haf
already been seized by the govern
ment, but few were found to bring
hay for the COWS, which had to be
put in the basement of our old school
building as our small stable was full
We have had such rainy spring that
the ground was too wet to store goods
outside so we packed the Easements
Of our new school buildings from floor
to ceiling with boxes, bedding and
bags of wheat and -four, reserving all
rooms above for the people we knew
would need them.
y Before we had dressed Monday we
had had applications for rooms from
half dozen families and by night
we in our houses had a regular hotel
of more than seventy people, while
attic, wood room and halls were piled
with goods of every description.
Our family are all together in the
middle bedroom, which is barricaded
by wall of large oil cans filled with
earth. This shuts cut most of the
sunlight, but the windows are down
from the top, and with three open
doors we can get good ventilation.
The sitting room windows are pro
tected by bags of flour piled UP on the
wide stills and 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 evil
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 1t is a miracle that SO
few have been hurt. It 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
a few feet from where Neville (Dr.
Ussher's sony was standing. He
brought the empty she'll in, still warm,
to show US.
THE benches from the church and
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 it has so patients, now 14O
are under its roof. There are at
least 5000 refugees on our premises,
and as many more in the near vicin-
lty. The German compound resem.
bles ours and Sbardone feeds between
thirty Nr6 fNrty Ut bI" pNt)e
How ArmenIans Make Ammunition.
THE Armenians have shown won
1erful ingenuity in making gunpow-
Ter, dynamite bombs and serviceable
bullets. They make a mortar to throw
bombs, and row are at work on four
'annon, the only weapons the Turks
nave which they have not. / visited
heir cartridge factory last week. It
vas most interesting to see the proc
,ss from the start, when disks Of
copper were cut from plates, to the fin
shed product Of polished cartridge
With even English lettering on the
md. Everything was handmade, but
'etween 1000 and 5000 cartridges is
he daily output.
Il never imagined that / could be
o interested in munitions of war, or
Lope 80 fervently that the revolution
SITS should win, but it is now Ques-
ion of saving the remnant of the peo-
lie from massacre and starvation, of
efending their lives and homes from
Iendish cruelty, and we exult over
very advance Of the little band and
ray that in some way permanent help
lay come to them.
After three weeks of fighting in
he city the Armenians have the ad-
antage. But in the defenseless vii.
lges the story is very different. It
wholesale and systematic massacre
as many as possible and the taking
many prisoners and sending them
tier to the head Of the revolutionsts
be fed. In this way starvation will
nish the slaughter.
From the first the most Of our refu-
ees were villagers, some from many
lilies away. When our premises could
old no more the houses near by and
by the positions held by
lie revolutionists were filed. It Is
stimated that at least 1000 fugitives
re being fed in the gardens. 1t is
apostolic to do justice to their con-
tion. Fleeing without time to col
ct their food, they come to us rag
ID, barefoot, hungry and sick from
lposure and fear.
MANY Of the regular Turkish sol
ers are averse to butchery, so the
Iii has promised plumber and glory
the lawless Kurds, who are nothing
ath to do his will. One morning
women and children, dying or
ounded from Turkish bullets, were
ought to our hospital. Little ones
wing pitifully for their mothers, who
ere killed while fleeing, and moth