The Devils Lake world., 1920-09-15
America! America!' the Millions Cry .
In Sad Armenia, Land Of Stalking Death
Melville chatsr, Home From Near
y East. Tails. Narrowing Story Of
HUMAN Misery Thers-Bes-
ties and Straw for Food.

/ nuM1n Mleery Jnere-Bee.
t ties and Straw for Food.
+ sCrouching BY herself in a corner,
. little seven-year-old girl was crack
ing something between two stones" /"
Gays Melville Chatter In an article.
sThe Land Of Stalking Death" in the
National Geographic Magazine. de-
scribins conditions u Armenia. II
looked closer and found the child was
eating the marrow from bone"
"Where did she get it?" I asked the
Interpreter who accompanied me.
"Yonder in the grave yard" he re-
piled, after questioning the girl.
This child, according to Mr.. Chatter,
was subsisting solely on a small dole
Of rice furnished daily by the Near
East Relief representatives in her ma,
tive city, Igdir. There was not suffi-
eient food in the town to even give
one meal a day to all Of the children
and shortly after they had received
this bare pittance of food all were
searching for any bit on which they
might chew to appease their hunger.
They picked up beetles, straws, and
enc piece of horses hoof, says Mr..
Chatter.
Root and Grass Diet.
Conditions at 1gdir are horrible al
most beyond relief. People live chief
ly on roots and grass, but occasionally
the diet Is varied by the killing of a
dog or cat. Workers sent out by
Near East Relief, the former Commit
tee for Armenian and Syrian Relief,
who are furnishing the only susten-
ance to thes, people, told Mr.. Chatter
that it was impossible to remove ut
ence the bodies of those who had died
from starvation, and when they were
taken out for burial, an arm or leg
Of the body had been eaten by the
famished survivors.
Mr.. Chatter tells Of visit to the
burying ground when graves were
torn open and bodies exhumed by the
famished inhabitants. 1--WE had taken
q short cut he says, toward where
our car waited and by chance we
were skirting the cemetery. Our guide
pointed thither and said:
"'1t is not pleasant sight. You
must understand that the Turks left
this country so bare that there were
not even spades. Graves must be
dug with any available thing, even
with human bones. If the dead has a
relative strong enough to carry
weight-big stones are placed on the
grave; but If not he shrugged sig
nificantly.
Il asked, hardly knowing how to
frame my question, Exactly what
exactly whom do you meanY
an Men Stalk Dogs.
"I mean he answered, the pariah
dogs by day and under cover of night
well, come and see for yourselves
Il will never forget that terrible
acre of earth-the low-boulder-heaped
mounds, and those others, the unpro-
tected graves, now revealed as empty,
scooped-out holes whose Drinks were
strewn about with remnants of torn
on garments, among which lay black
sned semblances Of humanity. As we
turned away the apparition of a great,
yellow pariah dog, paving among the
gr :, drew from US a volley of
st1 ''hen as he skunk off, skele-
ton-..-e man sprang up from behind
the wall (under cover of which he
had been stalking his prey) and, brain
Ing the beast with club. disappeared,
carrying its carcass with him.
"0ur farewells and thanks to the
American Committees manager SEEM
ed an endless proceeding and upon
reaching our car we found it blocked
by host of humanity, who, having