The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-07-10

The Herald is under obligations to
Capt. Frank Lee for another very in
teresting letter which gives a vivid
description of the relief work and
conditions in the far East. The let
ter follows herewith: ...
Damascus, Syria, June 1st.
My Dear Mr.. Wallace: A certain
kindly disposed person of Sal'l Cen
tire sent me six or seven Heralds all
at once and l have been enjoying
reading them even though they we're
some what old. Any pao,. not older
than my sailing date from u. S. A..
is new to me here as we only get one
from England or Egypt once in a
while. Somehow or other those from
Egypt do not contain much news of
Sank Centre, thus the Herald is ever
so much more appreciated.
We are very busy getting things in
order to leave here the 18th of June.
L Will leave then with all American
workers for Egypt. Will continue my
work there at Port Said for several
weeks then on to Paris.
The relief work here is by no
means finished but will be continued
by the new commission after the with
drawal of the A. R. C. Work of this
nature 1 find very interesting and
some of the things l am called upon
to do in single day are somewhat
as follows: Settle neighborhood
rows, stop man from beating his
children by threatening to put him in
prison, about 200 witnesses watching
me do this; taking three Arab Shakes
for their first ride in an automobile.
(they residing hundreds of miles out
IN the desert do not see many Fords }
having IS Armenian children file past
and kissed my hand and bid me good
DYE, they. having been sent back to
oheir native villages; get the promise
OF the Ezair, Prince Feisal to release
or rather order released 1000 Arnen-
ian women from Harems in Damascus
and vicinity and various other small
jobs too numerous to mention such as
driving Ford up the Street called
Straight" 10Th Chapter of Acts six
times day and from headquarters
lodging canrels and donkeys and
goats and Arabs as this street is COW
cred over and is dark at all times
As you know our principal work
here is with the thousands of Armen.
IAN refugees. There are still hundred
Of tErem in Turkish homes either as
servants or in the Harens of Kurds
and Turks who still live here. The
are detained against their will and
took up the matter with Prince
F>eisal, whom you have doubtless r5at
about, he being one of the most in.
teresting characters at the Peace con
ference, and he Immediately issued {
proclamation that all those having
Armenian women in their homes
should register at once SO they coult
be gotten out and cared for. From {
letter 1 received a few days ago {
copy of which / am enclosing, it ap,
pears that one Kurd did not compl,
with the request of the Emir. This i
only a typical case and we have many
letters similar to this one and sorns
even more despairing. When they
want relief the A. R. C. is the fir,
place they head for as we have taken
1t upon ourselves here to fight thei
battles for them, letter follows;
Translated from Armenian.
American Red Cross,
Capt. Lee, O. c..
Damascus.
Most gentle society:
During the terrible events of 1914
when / was exiled from my nativ.
colntry Sargroon, and came to the
little village called Serouj of Ourfa, {
Kurd Major, named Mahmoud SAID
by force, even to slaughter all tho
members of my family has taken from
me my girl, age Is years. Her name
was Parontzen, now called by them
Hayrie. After he took my girl he
took my jewels worth so pounds anc
CASH 80 pounds
Since nov { was 1t Aepro. Ny girl
" here at Dan1ascu with hiS family
an severa, wives this above mention
ed Major, at Sa1fhie, Court Grade
es,alie.
My girl has sent several letters ea-
pressing her desire co be got frso
from this terrible. man because she
eevotedly loves her race end aer ma
tional church. ] am sorry to mention
here that was utterly robbed during
the events of Aleppo of sorrow tc
the Armenians and another of my
1riTls has been wounded by her arms
and legs unto disablement to tie last
degree The British court-niartiai
being conscious of all these events
has been very kind to me and giver