The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-08-19
AMERICANS
AIDING IN
CAUCASUS
Buy Food and Cattle
For Armenian War
Sufferers
FARMERS ARE
GIVEN OXEN
Find Much Room For
Helping
Poor
~ the RELIGIOUS RAMBLER.

MI ~ INh NELI3tOOS HAmbLE ".
An interesting variation from m
y many calls 10 Christian America 70
~ var relief is the news Of what hA
"a actually been done for the succo
md repatriation Of the Armenian
4 % the Caucasus who have been per
n Iaitted by the Russian ccnduests e
yeturn from hiding and from exile
70 their devastated homes. Man,
u menths ago the American commit
II tee for Armenian and Syrian relief
q which Charles r Crane, New
kxYOrk. IN treasurer. sent represents
l1ves 10 the Russian and Persian
Il Caucasus TO begin relief works. and
& - follow up the Russian advances
Into rsvaged Armenia. as the Turks
Solreated. There has been great
NJ Gt0cuity in reaching the Armenians
with relief. owing 60 the refusal Of
~ Ottoman government 10 permit
y 1preigners to enter.
Three missionaries. two of them
4 Spoaking Turkish and Armenian.
~ one speaking Persian, were sent
- the Caucasus early this year,
4Ao senior VAS Rev. DR.. samuel q.
yvllsOn, Of the Pres byterisn mission
q Tabfix, a well known orientalis,
e}nnA suthor. With him were Messrs.
Tracey and Mccsllum OF the Amer
koGnn board. A cablegram recently
E&nnounced the death Of Or Wilson
- typhas. while engaged in tie
q Uosk Of relief Other missionaries,
Including DIR. Floyd >. Smith, OF
plarbekir. had already toined the
4 oDscs.
LISTERS have nov been received
n nDum the committee explaining its
|SUnsk One OF the most interesting
Gnnaaees tells OF the strange preser'
\ 0ntion, through an entire winter, OF
81 unharvestsd crops OF grain in the
<Xoa region. DR.. Mecallam summar'
lnoo the matter thus.
AT present there IL plenty OF
brood both in the city spd villa ges.
e Last year's wheat crop, sown In The
6n11 Of 1914. was ~ unprecedented
3 abundance The outbreak OF fight.
lnS and psassaeEaS occurred ia April.
1913. and the crops were not hsr.
vested. After standing in the fields
III last winter, this grain IL per
teetly good for making bread, al
r th0ush not for seed. In this way the
1eeding OF the people fer the sum
mer has been proyidentiaily render
;&1 possible.
The incident Is more fully told By
u Or. wilson:
"As an Offset TO these eificulties
4 and the manifold trials OF the refu.
ICES there was remarkable provi-
& dsnce. The unreaped harvest Of
\ lasf year remained safe 10 the fields
This was true In q number OF dis
1ricts Of Van. There was q small
4 army Of occupation which had
foeaged on the standing wheat. The
4 winter had passed with unusual mild.
ness No halls or storms had beat
In upon the standing grain. so
n when In Apr, the refugees returned.
Shey thrust In the sickies which We
& Yut into their handg and reaped
obuudsntly. The grain and the IN
disturbed wheat stores in the pits
IN the villages give bread 10 many
till the harvest time.
"what an ideal work II is TO re.
4 pair the ravages of war end restore
the refugees 10 their old ZONES This
I've have been attempting I'm the
b wake of tn victorious Rus sic d
army. Its steady advance along the
whole line from rreblzond 10 Kerind
~ has given Us the opportunity. Sc
81 ALREADY there are Thousands oI
xprouting harvesthelds in the d.
\ tricts OF Van and Alasgerg. with th'
Y promise ~ food fer thousands d
"A fnmilies. Since the vernal equine,
y there has been n small but stead
etrcam pf returning refugees. strong
\ Vigorous men. mostly farmers. The,
wisely left their families in the 20
curity OF the Caucasus. themselye
daring the risk OF possible retrta'
IS The Russian government gave IRE
& transport TO the refugees on the raj
n way as far a. Julia. the Persian Bot
\ Der. Thence thcy started on foo
vie Khoi. a tramp Of about Is
miles.
z these rcpairiatsd Christians IA
e need Of everything All had bee
X swept away IN the avalanche OF loo
I, osl destruction. Many things oo1l
= moi wait the re;urn ot the families
| D1eore TIE boute Was the neld. on
y oFsf carr was given "a providin
Cnrm implements. seed and cattle.
"As soon as We had animal
onoash, DR. uraeey wen, out With a
Armenian vciuaiccr from Americ
- 3 susrd, and gave tickets 60 tn
nrnerk Who were TO gsi oxen