The Arvada enterprise., 1920-06-03
HUNGER KNOWS
NO ARmIST|CE
IN CAUCASUS
co'eel aasksll Reports to Near
East Relief on Desperate
Needs Of Helpless.

SNVVSAo Va AAVAkAVOos
peace may come elsewhere In the
world, but hunger knows NO armistice
h tho Near East" says Colonel WI.
Nam n. Haskell, allied high commits
zion In the Trans aucasus, in an ap.
peal to Near East Relief, / Madison
avenue, New York city, for food and
supplies for the relief Of the starving
millions.
Colonel Haskell IL In charge Of all
operations and disbursements Of Neay
East Relief In the Caucasus.
There Is no fuel or shelter for the
greater part of them during the terri
BILE winter In the mountains" he says,
land the existing food supply 10 en-
tirely inadequate for the great num-
Der of refugees without resources of
any kind.
by recent agreement between
the premiers Of the republics Of Ar
nenia, Axerbaidjan and Georgia to
cease hOstllities and settle all differ
snces by arbitration one obstacle to
relief work In the Caucasus has been
removed and makes accessible q great
Number of destitute people who other
wise would perish this winter.
1.-TWO hundred thousand destitute
Armenians and Tartars can now DO
seached In the districts Of Karabagh,
shusha and Nakhichevan, In the south
east section Of the Trans.CaucnsIs,
and We are planning to extend our
work there. The economic situation IL
20 desperate and food supplies 80
scanty that the GeOrgians have or
dered 100000 persons. mainly Russian
refugees without employment, to leave
the city Of Tiflis. About $4,000 work.
en- In the oil fields Of Baku have been
ordered by the Azerbaldjahese to
leave the city because there 10 no
work for them and food IL scarce.
Around every station along the rail.
way are gathered groups Of hundreds
Of homeless people lying huddled to-
gether on the ground, the majority of
them too weak even to try to help
stronger ones climb ON freight cars
and move elsewhere, always seeking
better conditions. which do not exist.
Two hundred and sixty.three thousand
homeless refugees from Turkish Ar
menia thus arc constantly milling
about throughout Russian Armenia,
making the relief work conducted by
the AHaericans 4 problem requiring In
finite patience and organizing ability.
= .STAis- ~ especially true In view Of
TIE existence Of 2is,OOO destitute in.
habitants OF Russian Armenia who
possess homes, but no food, as well as
10000 Greeks, Russians, Persians, Sy-
rians and Yssidis who. have been
driven out Of parts Of Transcaucasin.
zone hundred and forty thousand
Noslems. whose villages were destroy
ID In the course Of five years OF con-
slant warfare, are helplessly en-
eamped In the open around villages of
their former enemies. begging infIni-
tesimal quantities Of flour. which they
nix with dirt 70 give the illusion OF
nOurlshment.
"These hundreds OF thousands of
suffering adults, mostly homeless nn'i
lacking every necessity Of life, having
nothing more to lose, are concentrated
In q country a. yet inadequatsly po-
Heed or governed. They constitute n
fertile field for the seeds Of Bolshc-
vism or any form Of anarchy, the
spread Of which once loosed would bs
impossible 10 predict.
ut In generally admitted In the eau
easus that the Americans OF the Near
East Relief already have saved the
,4ivex Of ut least 10000 babies and
children and OF 5OO.OJO adult refugees
and destitute. This work stiIl Ii con
tinuing."
In an effort TO procure funds to ear
" on the work and save tho lives of
these hundreds Of thousands who 9th.
srwise will die OF starvation and ex.
posure Near East Relief, OF which
Cleveland H. Dodge In treasurer, In
making an appeal TO the American
people.