Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1919-01-10
ENEMIES CONQUERED, BUT SOME
WEAK ALLIES MUST BE
SAVED.
STARVATION IN HOLY LAND
Four Million Christian Armenians,
Syrians. Greeks, and Thousands
of Jews, Prosecuted by
Turks, in Distress.

asked to give money for the starvir
and suffering a good many times SIM
the great war began, and they ha,
always responded in a way that hi
made the word American" one of II
proudest titles on earth.
But there has never been q moi
urgent need than that of the dyin
multitudes of the old Bible Lands. TT
to imagine 4.000.0 900 men, m an
children starving in deserts and old il
walled cities, dying Of pestilence an
plaques in the old holy places of tn
Near East. Picture this vast army q
sufferers going down into the Vale
OF the Shadow with none save far-of
America to succor and to help.
That is what is happening at thi
very hour in Syria, in Armenia and tn
Greco-Turkish parts of the Near East
What the fanatical Turk carried GU
under the direction of the cold-hearte,
P~russians, famine, pestilence and tn,
black shadow Of starvation are nov
rapidly completing.
They call Armenia, that lies up tc
ward the Russian frontier in Easter
Turkey, THE Death Valley Of the Nea
East No one knows, no one will eve.
know, how many Armenians wer,
slain by the Turks since the great wa
began.
Millions Of helpless people died O
massacre and starvation in this an
cient land. The Armenians we're Gu
to pieces by Bashi-B azouks, they wer,
beaten to death by the thousands ur
der the n~ail-studded clubs of the Turk
ish soldiery, who dubbed them t.
death rather than waste cartridges If
Staying them. Hundreds of thousand
2f the old men, the women and chi
dren were driven off into the open des
erts to die under the burning sun O
Asia. They have disappeared utterly
The race is at the point of being wipe(
out.
There are but 4,OO0,0 900 of these per
secuted. harassed peoples of Armeni;
n Syria left. They are starving, a,
no other people in the world have ever
been starved. The Germans though
they were at the Dark Gates of Hun
ger when they finally surrendered. Bel
SUM knows something of real hunger
but in Armenia and Syria these strich
en- people with death at their shou'
ders are fighting for the rotting mea
OF longdead animal %carcasses, and ar.
sustaining life on the filthiest garbag.
that m to their hands. They ar.
literally starving.
The sandy trails Of the desert ar
with the bodies of the starved
The dead bodies choke the village
There are too few Of the liv
ing and they are too weak to bury
their own dead. 1t is a Land of Death
a charnel house made by the Turk anC |
the German.
II these 100000 people are to b,
1t must be through America
nelp. II the 10000 orphaned childrer
n the Holy Lands Of Christianity arc
20 live it must be because American
vii give enough American dollars tc
save them.
1t Toes not take much to do infinite
FOOD. The man or the woman wbo
ives IS gives enough to keen the
breath of life in some poor unfortunate
or a month. Twelve times IS vii
mean life for a year to some man
woman or child who Is otherwise
loomed. Only II cents per day is re
'uired to make the difference between
lie and death to some one Of the stary
ng millions Of the Near East.
other Americans have helped. Amer
can men and women relief worker
been doing their best there for :
'ng time. Some of them have giver
heir lives in an effort to save these
eople. The Turks and the Germans
ere determined to wipe out these
eople while the world was so bus
nth war that it could not turn asid.
answer the piteous appeals tina
ere coming out of the Businesses G,
ne Turkish Empire. Now that tn,
lrtain has been lifted by the endin,
the war, the world knows that the,
lcceeded all too well.
Christian Missourians are asked f.
clip save these stricken peoples. Tb,
and Syrian Relief Campaigr
'gins Feb. 2 and continues one week
issourians will make this campaign
success.