The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-18
SAILS FOR HOLY LAND
Steamer Leviathan Has Large Con.
sianment OF Relief Workers.

New York. Feb. l6.--Sailing as an
'Argosy OF Life and Hope to the
Our million destitute people of the
Holy Land and other regions of the
northeast the steamer Leviathan left
this port today for France with the
largest contingent of missionaries,
doctors and relief workers ever sent
overseas at one time on such a mis-.
sion. They will reach Constants,
nople, their destination, about March
Is in another vessel sailing from
Bres,
The party, comprising $50 members
chiefly women. has been preceded by
equipment for 10 hospitai is-food,
clothing and portable buildings-60
motor trucks and other material do
mated by the committee for relief in
he near east The American Red
Cross and the American supplies are
valued at more than S3,5OO,00O
A number CT men workers, who
sailed on three previous boats, are
now in Constantinople and other
points and already engaged in the re-
ief of thousands of starving Syrians,
Armenians and Persians. All Ameri-
can religious creeds are represent
! ed.
DR.. George H. White. professor of
Ana tolia College in Marsevan. Tur-
key, leader of the missionary section
who was driven out of Turkey in
1916 after eight of his professors had
been slain and the young women
members of the victims families TAX
EN- captives in Turkish harems, said
the present expedition was under
the protection of the French and
British governments.
He told of how the Turkish and
Kurds, before he left Marsevan dug
a long and deep trench on the out
skirts of the city to which they
drove 200 Armenian men and women,
ike cattle, to the slaughter. All OF
the victims, he said. were forced TO
the edge of the pit and thrown in OF
shot to death. Repetition Of such
crimes, he believed, was now impos
sible.. Among the relief workers leaI
ing today were Miss Blaine Var
Dyke of Princeton, y. j., daughter
of DR.. Henry Van Dyke, former Unit
ed States minister to the Neither
lands; four members of the Men
monte church; Miss Esther Greene
CT Providence. r. l., who for sever
years managed a Virginia school TO
/, mountaineers; Miss Mary Hubbar,
Of Tarrytown, n. Y, who speaks Ar
menian and is a teacher of defectiv,
children; Miss Frances King Head
lee of Spokane, a member of tn
state welfare commission OF Wash
ington, and Miss Blanche A. Black
man. assistant director Of the Gil
cihnati general hospital DIR. Stanle
White. secretary of the Presbyteria
foreign mission board, also accom-
panied the party. Walter Georg
: Smith. Philadelphia attorney, rel
resenting the Roman Catholi
church, will 90 with the expeditio
! on later ship.
! The party on the Leviathan II
I cluded doctors from all parts of tn
country and about dozen traine
| assistants.
\ Among the hospital workers wei
/ five each sent by Smith college, We
\ lesley college and the American w
\ mems Hospital unit Of the near eas
4 Others workers and specials
4 included so Red Cross nurses, sevC
1 laboratory assistants and bacteri
4 logists. 2S missionaries, three agl
/ cultural experts, eight RECONSTRUCTED
4 aids, two psychologists, 10 indu
3 trial relief workers. Ave kindergG
ten teachers and three Journalists.