Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-24
SYRIANS SAVED
BYHEROISMOF
MISSIONARIES
20, 900 Defended From Turks
and kurds and Fed BY
Little Band

GtAltO 9Cit0
~ ptstIst,AtsD, ld.--Many an incident of
missionary beroism in the face OF
unbridled Turkish brutality is coming
10 iieht MS tltp missionaries. finally or
dered oTi a. the domains OF the Turk.
flock hack 10 their native shores. The
story Of bow a band OF rs mission
aries. holding their ground under the
American nag. saved from massacre
10000 Christian Syrians from Turks
and Kurds In Northwest Persia was
told this bureau by DIR. Frederick G.
Coan, one 0f the 1S, during visit To
this city q few days ago.
Nor nearly five months these 10000
SyrIanS who had fled to the mission
for refuge, we're huddled in unbear-
able conditions behind. the walls OF
the mission compounds. In daily dan
ger OF the Turks changing their inten-
tions md breaking IN upon the de-
fenfeless SyTiahs, the missionaries
struggled 10 feed their multitude and
carry them along. -Four thousand Of
the refugees within the walls passed
away IN these months. and three OF.
the rs missionaries. Finally the Rus
slams CANA
The scene OF this stand Of the mis-
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Turkish troops and 1000 to 5000
Kurde They spread over the plain
and came into the city. Two or three
thousand Syrians were caught IN the
VILLAGES. not having time to reach US.
0f the rest 10000. in rough num-
hers. crowded into the compounds OF
the American and French missions,
For five months we we're practI-
cflly prisoners. The Turks held all
ne roads leading out OF the Main.
destroyed oil OF the telegraphs lines.
Fqe no mai was carried Duflns TINS
{tme we mao me care OF the peopie IN
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md housing them. ana were epntlhg-
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man or great influence IN the country:
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character. and % n =. !. fackara'
missionary pnysicisn. Fno IN MS trpt-.
els had won the rlenosnip OF seLae
~ the kurdish leaders: promise as
finally secured from the turks ex-
einntinE the Cnrlstians from ma $.
nIL With COulIUluocIo anu oillCtdio