Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-04
AMERICAN NURSES
WORK DESPITE The
TURKISH MkSSACRES
Unusual HerOism is Displayed in
Tending Helpless
Armenians.

Constantinople, Aug. lZ.-(Cof-
respondence of the Associated Press
Two American nurses, Miss Mar
garet Mack of Hillbnrn, N. Y, and
Miss Ruth Stuart of New York City,
working for the American commits
sion for relief in the near East, de-
clined to abandon the sick and wound
ed at Shusha, Armenia, after having
themselves survived a massacre by
Tartars of 700 of the Christian in
habitants of the town, according to
letter just received here by MAJOR
David G. Arnold Of Providence, r. l.,
director of the commission. The let
ter read:
"Our doctor and nurses were in
the midst of the fight but were UNI
harmed. On advice from General
Beach l recalled the two nurses.
They came reluctantly and begged
to remain at their station as there
was an urgent need for them among
the survivors. The spirit Miss Mack
and Miss Stuart have shown has
been splendid and l felt that they
should be allowed to return it they
went as volunteers, understanding the
serious situation. They signed papers
to the effect that they knew the
danger and that they were returning
to their work at their own request"
A humorous touch to an other
wise tragical situation is related by
relief worker at Oulou Kishla who
writes:
"The men working out from Oulou
Kishla are covering large territory
and obtaining large experience.
Their chief outdoor sport is lodging
camel trains and leaping culverts.
Coaxing the missing sparkplug from
it's hiding place vies with mending
magnetos with thread as the chief
form of recreation. There are SO
mountains between Oulou Ksihla ano
Harpoot, each one intersected by foul
valleys and precipice. 1t is a rule
that after the explosion Of the twelfth
tire each day the flivver knocks of
and it's riders camp for the night
sharing their pillows with any row.
ing dromedary in the vicinity, ane
giving treat to the predatory mo-
squitos that infest the country. There
is warm box-car in Oulou Kishla
and a cook loaned to the commission
by Mr.. Oscar of the Waldroff. His
yawoort and chourba are inimitable
but no one can have his name or ad
dress because the world is full o:
guile. On your way through, stol
off and sample the chow. But re
member, don't talk to the cook"
During the last four months thu
commission has lost three members
by death, Paul D. Peltier of New
York City, the Rev. R. S. M Emricl
and Miss Edith M. WINCHESTER 0.
Philadelphia, nurse, who was among
the first to volunteer for work in thu
typhus ridden caucasus.
just before her death Miss Win
chester, in letter from Tiflis wrote
AThe sights about us are heartrend
ing A refuge two blocks from GU
office yesterday fed 1900 starvin,
children. We have been feeding then
once day. And once day the car
goes around to collect the eight o
ten little corpses that have accumu
lated. Refugees are eating grass AM
alfalfa. The alfalfa they eat raw
one can always see children nibblin'
at bunch of it like rabbits"
From various points in Armenia
the Caucasus and Anatolie, report
have been received from the Ameri
can field workers. From Batour
comes word that "there are 10000
Greek refugees back of the city VIII
are gradually being pushed oHt b
the Russians. Many of them went t.
Samson. Thousands of whom fed a
an American soup kitchen. Adam
has $4,000 refugees and $4,000 NOR
are in nearby villages"