The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-16
CAPTAIN HYDE SPEAKS

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 Capt. George B. Hyde of Vermont. a veteran of the Red Cross in France ard Belgium and of the Near East Relief in Western Asia. who recently returned from Asia Minor to aid the Near East relief work, spoke before the Near East conference at the morning session
 He told of veteran American army officer who was detailed to the Near East and after inspecting the Near East relief work and hearing the stories of teacher in the orphanage at Aintab, said:
 If that story as I have heard it could be told to America, a million men would volunteer to come over here and make Armenia free
 If voice could reach us.'' con- tinued Captain Hyde, from each of the million nameless graves scattered ove- the plains and among the mountains. in every village and hamlet and along every road from the Black Sea to the plains of Mesopotamia and the deserts of Arabia and Syria, could the heart renolng story be told of this vast army of Christian men and patient gentle women andslittle children who laid down their lives for the faith you and profess. 1t would stir this nation as it never has been stirred before
 Today the life of every Armenian in fHh ihShin 10 III udISeT from starvation or massacre and frequently both The T,1rl, been disarmed: he has not been comnelled to give up the thousands of Christian women and children whom he holds in vile servitude even under the .rnuzzles of the guns on the allied ships at Constan- tiEople, he has not rebuilt the thousands of Armenian homes he wantonlv and stupidly destroyed: nor has he been made to disgorge the millions of pounds of loot fcl z h bic rv- tins; nor to return the fertile farms and vineyards and pistachio groves and or charcs. the produce of which would have gone far toward making the Armenian able to feed himself this winter
 r. MENACED ON THREE SIDES ITO understand clearly present condi- tions in Armenia and the imperative 1ne- cessity of prompt aid from America is necessary to consider the people as divid- ed into two geographical groups, Caucas ian and Turkish Armenia. In Caucasian Armenia there are approximately 1,500. .00d Russian Armenians and perhaps 30000g refugees from Turkish Armenia who fled from the massacres The people have maintained for the last IS months their own government. the republic of Armenia, and by their own arms have defended themselves against the Turk on one side the Tartars on another and still the Rus sian and the Georgian on the other. and have maintained law and order.
 Today S0o.o00 of these people are facing death from starvation and cold unies' food and clothing is sent to them in large quantities at once.
 The supply of food reaching this starv- 1 ing multitude last summer was not sui ficient even when supplemented by such vegetables as could be raised to keer thousands from starvation.
 "The assistance given by the British army in supplying food and the aid ad- ministered by the Red Cross and the neAr east relief has been magnificent and he roic. and it must be continued in in creased measure unless the American peo- ] pie are willing to see another nation wiped out
 ' BROCkENSHIRE ELOQUENT
 Commander John Brockenshire ch 1.j- lain of the United States steamship Mar tha Washington. which recently returned from a. voyage to Black Sea ports. tole an appalling story of the horrors and suf- ! fering in western Asia. It was an ad dress eloquent in its patbos and fiery 1T lits denunciation of the Turks.
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