New Britain herald., 1916-03-29
|CAN BOARD
 PREDICAMENI'
3 War Zone Have Many Difficulties
Shed by American Board. )

s1s BlCllS, DlaDeklr-name
 Hve recently been prominent
 aews from the Eastern front
 TX liar words to many in
 for they represent cities or
 n which the American board,
 foreign missionary society,
 1ked among on-Mohammedan
 For nearly a hundred years.
 Dom, for instance, the forti-
 which the, Russians took by
 short time ago, two Ameri-
 carrying on their work of
 They were Rev. Robert
 foll and pr. Ida M. Stapleton,
 A cable to the American
 ia. Petrograd and our own
 3artment, reports MT. Staple
 en1aining in the city during
 to the Russians; while pr. sn had gone, doubtless with
 sr and sick people as refugees,
 agan. r#
 Hospital fin Erzroom.
 rzroom the Board has a hospi- ESzsted by Mrs. Stapleton but later
 ge of Dr. E. P. Case, who has sgfgnmoned to Constantinople for
 ross work. There is also
 High and Boarding school,
 grounds adjoin those of the
 u consulate and a large Boys lI ln the heart of the city, close
 custom house and post office.
 n gan, which has also been oc- & by the Russians has been an @zation Of the board. It was In little hospital here that Nurse |@ Zenger, of Sivas, met her death typhus, as she and Miss Mary Jam were returning to Sivas after heroic relief expedition to bonn just about a year ago, when prs, nurses, garrison, war prison and practically the whole city down with typhus.
 I'wo Americans in Trebizond.
 Trebizond, the port of Erzroom, and Mrs. l.. $. Crawford and our gal (Mr. IIelzer) have been prob 3the only Americans in the city. school and Kindergarten teachers in Europe on vacation when the broke out and have not been all q to return. The mission prop is not far from the consulate and gh the church suffered at the of the recent Trebizond massa-
 the Board learns that it has repaired and is in use.
 Bitlis a boys high and boarding ol and seminary for girls, VII as the Mount Holyoke school, the chief institutions. From s, last fall, Rev. George F. Knapp, cipa1 of the academy was forcibly oved under Turkish guard and n to Diabekir, where his death immediately announced. The es of his passing are very contra try, and this is one of the items h will demand careful examina- and an adequate explanation l Turkeys accounts are rendered.
 Two Girls at Bitlis.
 2. Knapp's removal left two young en, Misses Myrtle Shane and sll McLaren, alone at Bitlis, in ge of the station and of the many en and girls who fed to the mis- for protection. Miss McLaren typus. Miss Shane, who went to .ey only in 1913, nursed her com on, dealt with the authorities and the station. Bitlis Is a mountain with snow often seven or eight deep in it's streets for weeks at a i, but these two girls planned to d the winter Ion the job."
 length, however, their charges } driven away, their supplies ran and they were not permitted to l any messages out of the city. n the American ambassador sent overnment Kavass to Bitlis and CT his escort the two ladies went there joining larger ion.
 he siege and evacuation of Van is ty we'll known, as well as the lness of the Russians in taking the sricans, several of whom were gerously ill and all of whom were austed, from the strain of siege caring for refugees, across the lntains with the Russian hospital 1s.
 Sivas Important Point. Ivas is another important point in Russian itinerary. It has ordi- Ily about 3O.000 inhabitants and is capital of Vilayet having in es of peace a population of some 900. Here the American board not only a hospital and large ded schools but also a Teachers ege, whose graduates have had ar ,ortant place in the plans of the nds of Turkey.
 t was to Sivas that Miss Charlotte lard followed a group of forty Ar nian girls deported from Marso Mission school and by the use and speciall! them back to Marso { was from Sivas that Miss Mar. Lffan (aIready mentioned) accom- lied the Armenian population a y were driven out to the south, til stopped at Malatia, where tn, q to the desert begins.
 7yphus eDidemics, sad procession sick and starving depOrted ones rms over missionaries brough m other stations and detained il pense and sickness of heart; thes ] many other circumstances hay