Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-06
RELIEF WORKERS UNDERGO
 TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE

Adana, Asia Minor, Sunday. Feb. | 2s.(By The A. P.)-Since the siege of Picking. foreigners have undergone no | more nerve wracking experience than seventeen relief workers of the Amer l ican Committee for Relief in the Near | East, shut up for g days without 1 outside communication in mission | compound at Marash. They were |
 under constant rain of lead, while l
 French troops. aided by Armenians, | battled with Turkish nationals for the l possession of the city, more than half | of which was burned during the en- | gagement, which brought about a ter i rible loss of life
 The story is told in the d<ary of the Rev. c. T. S. Crathern, a Boston Y.
 M. C.. A. secretary. who went through
 the siege and arrived at Adana on February 18th. .
 The Rev. MT. Cathern, with Paul
 Snyder, Miss Helen Schultz, of Read l ing Pa, French lieutenant and two
 Armenians attempted to leave Ma
 rash by automobile for Aintab, Jan
 uary 20, but were driven back to
 Marash by a fusillade of bullets not
 withstanding the fact MT. Crathern
 displayed the American flag.
 The Turks had been resenting the
 French occoupation of Marash and
 other cities for many weeks, Mir
 Crathern reports, and Algerian troops
 were engaged in a skirmish with
 Turkish bandits when an American automobile appeared and drew fire , from the Turks. Mir Crathern's diary says on January 21 he found Marash With it's bazaars and shops closed, l and the Turks engaged in talking in
 small groups throughout the city. At noon shots were heard by the re- 5 lief workers, indicating that the long , threatened clash in the city had start r ed. French officials arrested several 5 important Turkish officials which it
 was presumed precipitated clash at Aros. Shooting soon began in all Darts of the city. A French sentinel. guard ing. an American hospital was killed : and another French soldier was wounded.
 . Fighting continued on the 23rd ana through his field glasses MT. Ora r Lhern said he. could see Armenians . fleeing through the streets before the v Turks, who shot them down while Turkish snopers on the hills about inc
 shot at Armenians attempting to leave
 Marash
 7 On the 24th the Americans conferred
 With the French General Ouerette and
 told him stories the refugees brought a or the horrors. He said he would try l, 10 correct the situation. His efforts !. 1 to negotiate a cessa ton of hostiIi- ! ties failed and a heavy bombardment began in the afternoon. The French
 nred upon certain sections from which Turks were sniping.
 At night the city is in total dark
 ness, the diary continues. aWheneve,
 We go from one compound to anothe, D we creep along the walls to escape the
 Iate or being hit. Every compound J. IS hiled with frightened refugees -- alarmed over the fate of their reIa- tives" : Today we raised the American h flag but no sooner had we raised it tc ;s the mast than a salute from a dozer d guns sent us scampering to cover. = Just timed B shots in one minute -e Five messengers were sent today IS for supplies and endorsements. I dt noht know whether they will reacf
 Ishalhie
 ,e January 25: Hundreds of Arneni. d ans are @ylng to reach our compound Ia but the light made by fires the Turks 's are setting to Armenian quarters makes their escape impossible. n January 2S: A pitiful case arrivins today was that of Mrs Selattiar ,d wife of the pastor of the Thfrf l- church. She was bleeding from bull. 6 let and knife wounds. She says hel
 CUlfu 10 months was slain,
 January 31: Nine persons wer.
 shot today on the college grounds Y some of them seriously Fortunately
 we have plenty of wheat now b1 10 Keeping the women grinding from sun l. rise to sunset we can feed the people " Mrs. Selattian died today
 1t February 1: More children hav n been shot in orphanages, and hospit l. als continued to be attacked, l. February 2: A shell fell todd, le through the roof of hospital and in l. to the attic just below the floor wher -- many patients were quartered Tn = Turks tried to set fire to the Bartel 1t orphanage. The French retaliated b, l. burning the house of the irstigator Q v the plan to burn the orphanage. l. February 4: This has been a tragi ,e day, stories of fresh massacres reach Is ing us. We are resolved to stay her il at all hazards. God help the Arrneni ,r ans if the Americans leave them. l. February 6: This is the eighteent m day of the siege of Marash We had le joyful surprise. An airplane fe7
 over the city, dropping several smes
 sages, which a high wind carried int
 the Turkish part of the city. But W
 knew help was near; we were not for Y gottenu.
 February '. At last reinforcement iS are III slgnt. Already they are fight ce ing their way into the city. We hear re today that eighty girls, inmates of d, rescue home, have been killed by tn ce Turks who afterwards fired the build in ing.
 of February 8: French troops are i l. Fthe valley, their guns shelling tn n hills, But it may be days before the T. can encircle the city.
 February g: General Querette in in formed us today that he has orders t as evacuate the city at midnight. Tbi UT news has caused wild alarm anon ce the women and children who are craz at ed with fear. We urged General Que /. rette to delay evacuation. He said h 10 would try to secure a delay of 2 L. hours. If the French evacuates W
 are not sure what treatment we wi
 receive at the hands of the Turks. W
 shall remain at our posts, howeve .E and do what we can to shield th
 Arrnenians and protect American in d. terests.
 co 'February 10: General Querett O. has been granted a 24 hour delay be ny fore leaving the city. Our greates oh fear is for Miss Buckley (Miss Fran .ir ces s. Buckley, of Cape Vincent, Ne, c-I York, She was in the Beshalom or lvA. ov1A rxa% y,ae =