Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-31

Groffam, have made brilliant history
in connection with their dauntless eff
forts to save the Armenian girls un-
der their charge from the Turkish
standing by.
How Missions Stand
The largest foreign investment in
the whole Turkish empire it that of
the American Board of Missions,
which has three million dollars worth
of property alone, in the form of
schools, hospitals, churches and resi-
dences. In addition, of course, is the
investment in the support of mission
aries. Secretary Patton reports:
THE missionaries, 100 in number
so far as reported are all safe, al
though there has been heavy loss
through deah. Eleven have died since
May. We have lost three of our
splendid physicians by typhus fever;
DR.. Atkinson of Harpoot, DR.. Thorn
of Mardin, and the famous DIR. Shep-
ard of Aintab, all these have caught
the disease from their patients. The
loss is irreparable.
six of our stations have been aban-
doned temporarily: Van, Bitlis, Oorfa
Diabekir, Adabazar, and Bardezog
the population having been wiped out.
At Harpoot, Trebizond, Harsovan,
Sivas, Hadjin and Tarsus massacres
and deportations have nearly wiped
out the Armenian population, but the
missionaries remain to care for the
aged, the infirm, and the children who
are left, and to guard the mission
property. II is left to the mission
aries to come home if they think best.
"Aintab, Marash. Adana and Brousa
have suffered terribly, but not like the
above places. At Talas and Cesarea,
where the population is more largely
Greek, and where the Governor has
been friendly, the work goes on as
usual, and the schools are full to
overf1owing. In Constantinople the
deportation has been comparatively
slight. At Smyrna the college is in
full blast. and doing a greater work
than ever. Miss Vaughn remains
alone at Hadjin, but is considered to
be safe. The Stapletons are alone at
Erzerum. There has been no news
from the Balkans except Monastir,
which reports that the schools have
continued without the loss of a day
to the capture of the city by the Bull
garians."
What One American Saw
Some of the American missionaries
who have been forced out of Turkey
have been chatting to get back for the
relief work, and three missionaries,
Messrs. W. f. Macallum, Floyd o.
Smith and George F. Gracey, have
been sent to Tifiis, Russia, where they
are working among the one hundred
and seventy thousand refugees in the
Caucasus region. DIR. Edgar st. John
Ward, of Syrian Protestant College,
has gone to Aleppo with Red Cross
supplies to minister to the Armenian
refugees congested there.
Rev. DR.. Samuel G. Wilson, a Penn
sylvanian. who is one of the foremost
missionaries of the Presbyterian
Board in Persia has been put in
charge of the relief work for the Am
erican Committee in Persia and Rus
sia, and he writes a moving letter
from Erivan, in the Russian Caucasus.
In the district of Erivan alone there
are one hundred and five thousand
Armenian refugees, besides HISTORIANS
and Yezidees.
With the definateness and simplicity
of careful Investigator, DIR. Wilson
reports what he has seen of the prob
lem of finding shelter and food for the
host of people in a severe Winter of
the Armenian uplands:
I'VE saw families of thirteen and
sixteen - mothers. daughter, brides