Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-06
RELIEF WORKERS
IN ASIA MINOR
UNDER FIRE FOR
5: y! MOST 8 WEEKS
Members American Commit
tee Shut Off From Outside
Communication % Days
In Compound at Marash.
MORE THAN HALF OF
TOWN is DESTROYED
ArmenianS Flee Through the
Streets Before the Turks,
Who Shoot Them; Refu-
gees Slain By SniperS.
10y MORNING JOURNAL sPEe,AL ,sssto ~tRsi

10y MORNING JOURNAL 8PGciAk lEAstp Nthtl
Adana, Asia Minor, Feb. 29 tSun-
day, by the Associated Press. -
Since the siege of Peking, foreign-
ers have undergone no more nerve
racking experience than seventeen
relief workers of the American
committee for relief in the near
east, shut up for twenty-five days
without outside communication in
a mission compound at Marash.
They were unuer a constant ram
of lead while French troops, aided
by Armenians, battled with turkish
natlonallsts tor possession of the
city. More than half of the town
was burned during the engagement
and there was terrible loss OF lie.
The story is told in the diary OF
the Rev. Z. T. S. Crathern, a Bos-
ton Y. Nj. c. A. secretary, who
went through the siege and arrived
at Adana on February 10.
Rev. Mr.. Crathern with Paul
Snyder, Miss Helena Schultz of
Reading, Pa. a French lieutenant
and two Armenians attempted "
leave Marasch by automobile for
Aintab January 20, but were driven
paIh " s.s m"i 80 :! "
MIR. Crathern displayed the Amer
lean flag.
The Turks had been reSentiug
French occupation Of Marasch and
other Cilician cities for many
Weeks Mr. Cra'Iern repoi y, anu
HiSS i'oPo %,
sNiriiiisii Win ulh'sh. pa'uisa
WneH .he An'e, lcatl au.oi''"p'ie ap1s
peared anu urew lre Hoih the
turks
MT. Cratherh ulaiy sayS on jan
uary : ne louna Marash WIN us
SHOPS closeu anu ti'e Iutks ensaseu
~ .aihlhe ~ s'h"li Bioups Ihioash~
oui the CIV. H..
AZ noon shots were ilearu " .ne
ielet WoIhets, llulcatins mat thc
ions .hlea.o''su e'tsh ~ tIe eiy
hau s'arteo' ftench ollicials 81"
rested seNeiai ihlpo'taht iutkish
olliclals, winch u was thousilt pie
eipitated u elash at Aros' onootihE
sooil oesan III az parts Vi ,iIe ony'
. ...,..t. l. n..,I.a, 49,. ,xutas ,na
Aiheii'an hVsp''al was hiieu anu
anothef frehci soluler was wounds
eo:
Shlp'hs continues tnIousloul tne
hisnt ana the A',lelieans "saelz
awakeiieu Oh wy I-hu pS tno
souhu Oh guns anu I'asltes rom "
pioulhs shells an at'dck was hiauo
on the american hosPitai' .ne uocT
LOTS ana nurses naVlns tiai'oW eS'
cape
flsnphB c"ntllueu on .le So"
and throush ms rlelu glasses MIse
Crathefh saiu ne coulu see
mehlahs lleelhs thfoush the streets
belofe the TURKS VINO shot 'hen'
doWh, WINE lurhiSn si,pers ~ eV
streets apout tne city shot Arh'en
lans attempting 10 leaVe Marash
The diary says
~ was pitiiul 10 see mem throw
up their hands ana scream ~niie
attempting 10 ESCAPE; we matone
them fleelhg over tne Mus unti
they reacheo our conipounu' soihe
dropping Wounuea ana others urop
ping INTO the mission GROUNDS with
wiid eyes and purple faces teiiins
OF the aWful massacre just besih-
ning,
on the 24th the Americans CON
terred win tne freheh genera,
Querette, and told MN stories tne
refugees brought OF the horrors. lie
said he would try TO correct the SIT
uatlon. But eiforts TO negotlate
cessation of hosuhties failed ana
heavy commandment began IN tnc
afternoon. the French fired upon
certain sections from which Turks
were snlplng. 80,
Az night the city IS In totai
darkness, the Diary continues.
whenever we go from one com =