The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-08-16
RED CROSS SPENDS
100000 MONT H
FOR SYRIAN RELIEF

From a bulletin of recent date filed
at the office of Canon City chapter CT
the Red Cross it is learned that the
Red Cross War council in Washing
ton appropriated the sum or $500. 900
for relief work in the Near East dur
ing the month of July. which was ex-
pended thru the American committee
for Armenian and Syrian relief. The
Red Cross will set asIde a ike
amount for each of the five remaining
months of the year if the work OF the
committee is not sufficiently hamp-
cred by the Turkish government to
make further grants OF the kind in
advisable.
The American committee is the only
organization outside of the Red Cres-
cent. Controlled by the Turkish gov
ernment), which is allowed to admin
lister relief in certain portions of the
Turkish empire. Its field Of opera
tions includes not only Asia Minor
and those portions of Armenia and
Syria that are in the Ottoman empire,
but it also includes a large section of
Armenia now dominated by the Rus
sian army. as well as the Russian eau
casus, Persia. Mesopotamia and por-
tions of Egypt and Macedonia, into
which refugees, Armenian. Syrian and
Greek have fed in large numbers.
With the exception of the. work being
| done by the Jewish Relief committee.
the American committee is the only
agency organized for afording relief
| in this great area
The making of this appropriation
| BY the Red Cross is in accord with the
policy of the Red Cross to cooperate
with relief agencies in the theatre of
war to the end that there shall be the
| utmost aid afforded. while overlap
| ping of effort is as far as possible
avoided. The appropriation is made
| upon application OF James l.. Barton,
| chairman. and c. V. vickrey. secre-
| tary. respectively. of the American
| committee for Armenian and Syrian
| relief. and. after investigation. is
thoroughly approved by the Red Cross
| committee on cooperation. OF which
Judge Robert S. Lovett is chairman
The appeal to the Red Cross for aid
estimates that there are 1000. 900
people in western Asia whose death
can be prevented only by direct aud
continued help from this American
committee. These people have been
exiled from their homes and are in
regions where self support is practic-
| ally impossible. From one town alone
there is call to provide for 10000
number OF orphans in another district
is given by the American consul As
10000. In the entire field the number
or orphaned children is estimated to
| run into the hundreds OF thousands
In the Caucasus. the American com
mittee has found it imperative to pro
vide employment of women. many Of
whom have lost their husbands. their
children and all their material pos
sessions. These women take wool in
the rough and make 1t into garments
FOX other destitute.
While II is true that the large part
OF the American ccmmittee's relief
has been given to Christians. this has
not been because they were Christians
but rather because they were residing
under Moslem rule that were frst to
suffer.
or the Armenians alone. nearly q
million were massacred or driven to
death in 1915. and the remainder Of
the race within Turkish dor.inions
we're deported from their homes into
the desert regions where self support
was impossibis