New-York tribune., 1916-02-27
All Armenian Men Slain
Homeless Refugees Suf-
fer Severely from Cold.
VERDUN DRIVE STIRS
DEMAND FOR FUNDS
Red Gross Asks Aid to Purchase
Shipments Sent
to France and Italy.

Cold winds sweeping down from the
snow covered peaks of Ararat cause the
destitute Armenian refugees in villages
around Tifs to crawl under their rag
ged blankets on plank platform beds,
writes the Rev. DR.. Samuel G. Wilson
I to th> Committee of Mercy. As repre-
sentative of the American Committee
for Armenian and Syrian Relief he
gives his personal observations of the
suffering in bleak villages on the plain
below the Trans Caucasus range.
Women are wantonly slain." he
writes in repeating stories Of the
Kurdish troops told TO hlm py refugees.
Some threw themSeives and their chill
dren into streams snd from the preci-
piceS to escape Outrage. One woman,
recently arrived in the village of kur-
psloo, said she was captured by the
kurds several years ago. She escaped
after killing the kurd who kept her
prisoner.
One Man in Seventy Saved.
"We saw families of thirteen and
sixteen-mothers, daughters, brides and
children, but no men. We asked,
Where are your men| The women
replied, They were all killed; OF sew
enty but one escaped
"A woman, surrounded by seven or
, eight persons, with rags for clothes and
no bed said: Il escaped by throwing
myself in the mud, dead baby lying
over my head. There were fifty in our
household. Nine women and boys were
taken captive by the kurds.'"
Warm bedding and clothing will save
thousands of Armenians from sickness
and death, the Rev. DR.. Wilson writes.
At reception to himself and his as
sociates the Grand Duke Nicholas
hoped for the success of the American
relief campaign.
During the last week letters were re
ceived from Europe az the Office Of the
American Red Cross, l30 East Twenty
second Street, announcing that in view
of the heavy fighting expected around
NerGun there would be immediate need
Of large quantities of medical supplies.
Funds are needed TO meet the demand.
The American Red Cross has Skinned
sixty-nine cases of war relief supplies,
valued ut S44202. TO FarIs auu sIX
cases to Calais. The San Giovanni took
twenty cases of supplies to Rome.
Contributions amounting to Si,63l.30
were received, making the grand total
1888 1874.
To Hold Concert for Poles.
Among recent contributions to the
Polish Victims Relief Fund, which now
totals $235, ,223.97, were K. S. Childs,
81 .OO0 Roseville Presbyterian Church,
Eewark. y j., S.04.5o: Anne z Winter
20 D., II. alf
Fund, 5000: Toledo Polish Commerce
Club. s5O2. IS: st. Stanislaus Kostke So
ciety, 500: ST. Isidor's Church. River
head, Long Island, s33l.35; Mrs. Alice
T.. Woolley, 500; Ole A. Olsen, $3.50,
and Mrs. ]. II. Beans. 500.
The American Jewish Relief Com.
mittee has received contributions and
pledges amounting to S3.26i ,4O4.57.
The first of Nine. Ranke's Concerts
Intimes" to aid the poor little chill
dren Of Poland" will be held at the
Plaza Wednesday morning at II o'clock;
Nine. Christine Eymael will sing and
Nine. Ranke will speak on Modern
French Composers
More than $4,000 in cash has been
contributed to the charity bazaar TO
be held in Madison Square Garden
March II 20 % for the war sufferers
Of Germany, AustriaHungary, Turkey
and Bulgaria.
Recent contributions to the Ameri-
can Ambulance Hospital in Paris in
clude: Edwin VI. Bulklev, 800: 2. C..
Jameson. $3.50; Harold Kidder Bulkley
ct al. 500; Henry c. Wells, 500; In
memory Of John Garfield" 81 300;
through Mrs. Robert Bacon. $3.50; Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid, $500; F. VI. Kirby, $500;
Cleveland Committee, $500; through
Myron T. Herrick, 800, and $1,000 from
an anonymous donor "in memory OF
Picbard Hall. who died for France"