Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-30
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New York, May 27.-Money to the
amount of at least $150,00O each
month must be given to save a mil
lion starving Armenians and native
Christians in Turkey, Persia and Sy-
ria, said Charles R. Crane, treasurer
of the American Committee for Ar
menian and Syrian Relief, 20 Fifth
Avenue New York. Ten times that
amount, a cable message from Con-
states, would not meet
their full needs. The cry of the far
off Armenians, deported from their
homes by Turkish soldiers, has. been
family heard amid the many. calls of
nearer, suffering peoples in Europe.
Armenians, HISTORIANS and native
Christians, largely women and chill
dren, by hundreds of thousands, in
Turkey, Persia, Syria and Palestine,
are absolutely destitute and thous-
ands are starving to death. A cable
gram received on May 18th by the
American Committee for Armenian
and Syrian Relief from the repre-
sentatives of the Committee in Con-
stantinople, said that in some sec
lions of Turkey, so inadequate is the
relief, many of the exiles are COM
PEELED to- eat grass and are dying of
starvation by hundreds. as
The American Committee, on Ar
menian and Syrian Relief, has rails
ed about 100000, which was as
much as could be wisely expended
But now the way is open, through
the permission of the Turkish gov
eminent, to give unhampered relief
and thousands Of lives may be saved.
It is estimated that $4,000 in all
will be needed to relieve the suffer-
ihgs OF the people, numbering in all
about; one million, who look to the
Committee for help. Commissions
representing the Committee, work.
ing under the direction of American
missionaries and United States Con-
suls, are distributing the relief from
several centers.
In the call sent out by the FEEDER
al Council of the Churches OF Christ
in America, asking that Memorial
Sunday, May 2Sth, be set apart for
the consideration of the war suffer-
ers in Europe and Asia, the Ameri-
can Committee for Armenian and Sy-
RAN Relief is named as one of the
leading organizations that are work
ing to meet the needs of the suffer-
ers. ia lI VISA
The Worlds Sunday School Asso-
citation and the International Sunday
School Association cooperating with
this Committee, had previously des-
ignated May 2Sth as the day on
which Sunday Schools throughout
the country may take an offering for
the suffering children Of Bible lands,
including not only Armenian chill
dren but the destitute children in
Persia and Syria. Tens Of thousands
of these children, many of them or
phans, are actually suffering and dy-
ing for want of food, shelter and
clothing. So little is needed for the
mere saving of their lives that a
contribution of ten cents will keep
a boy or girl alive for a week.
When Turkey. entered the war, the
Armenians, some, suspected of disloy-
atty, were driven from their homes
by Turkish soldiers. In many towns
the men and older boys were separ-
ated from their families and mas
sacred. The women and children
were then herded in the streets and
deported to remote sections Of the
country. Little mercy was given
and thousands of women, children
and babies dropped on the way from
exhaustion and were left to die. The
details of massacre, robbery, outrage
and persecution are Understandable.
The survivors are in refugee
camps far from their ruined homes.
They are insufficiently clothed, with
out food enough to keep the life in
their bodies, and immediate relief is
needad IN Ga We them '
In the Caucasus region Of Turkey
at the outbreak of the war large
numbers of the Armenian population
fled across the boundary line into
Russia, leaving everything behind
them. Now that the Russian armies
are advancing, these exiles are re-
turning to their homes, following the
Russian armies They have lost 'ev-
erything. In order that they may
be rehabilitated, it is necessary to
provide them with seed grain, imple-
ments for working the soil and to
maintain them until the harvest is
gathered All Of the articles needed
may be purchased at Mediterranean
coast ports and that method is the
most expeditions way of extending
relief. 49,.
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