Evening journal., 1920-07-27
AMERICAN GIRL
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ROUTS TURKS
HNMN#f MA n
ENNEEtN 8ki&Nk
cleveland Woman Puts Life
Into Massacre -Menaced
ArmenianS
CHRISTIAN CAMP
is ATTACKED

LONDON. July 24.-Her name is kel-
leV. which is Fundamentally the same
+s Kelly and it goes without saying
Shat she comes Of q lighting race. Per
.laps only a Kelly or a Kelley Of her
asiii-conduePing sex, with candid blue
&Xfs and a dash nf red in her halr,
could have inspired 1000 massacre
nrnaced Armenians, abandoned 70
Iaeir fate By the French. TO defend
Themselves for flya days, with home
made artillery which included a can
non made from the roller Of an Ameri-
2an maugie.
ltsl As she served them with their morn
ing c0nee IN the school and hospital
Aenmp0und OF the Near East Relief ~
ethe Christian quarter Of The Gllician
SbWn OF Alnlab this American daugh-
Ter 81 the Kelleys would spur on her
Aghling men ike a Nalkyrie
l0n owe me four Turks a day,
qach one OF you.e she would cry, with
deliberate flavor Of the ancestral
broguo to drive her meaning home
And when they would drop in for
refreshment during tho days fighting
She would question them Individually
s Well, how mlny did you get this
nforningf she would ask some battle
sianed youth.
Perhaps hn would confess modestly,
athai be had killed a couple Of Turks,
Whereupon she would exclaim yigor-
0tsly.
What. only a coupler Then you
eve me two more. Don't forget
tso more today for mo aud then as
many as you can for yourself"
BY which means Miss Edzabeth b.
I a.Ha "a 81. rfaa
centuries of fatalisiic submission from
me eyes ana hearts or men who had
inherltad the expectation OF a general
massacre every 20 years or SO. In ex-
planning the psychology Of The case,
Miss Kelley made Il perfectly clear
shat she hcrsnlf IS not a biOodhirsty
person. as might be hastily assumed
form her sanElinary exh0rt9tions.
So paslzad with horror were those
fte days To Aintao That The American
iytman's capacity for being shocked
WAS benumbed. Il required no effort
90 speak rsyly o. tle supreme necess-
4ty uf Killing Turks. F0r she had seen
she bodies of FIrk-siain women and
children dHEourpd IN the streets by
dogs. And tfe one anxiety that clam
orad % her heart was for She safety oi
nc 800 CHRISTIAN children and the
$40 rrund# women OF whom she
~as fhe ElariIau That she ended by
Sting them oUs af Alntsb. those oi
1em who had not been snlped on
tom 3 distant mlnarei which com
anIad fhE fnHr YARD o. ihe Aniarl-
aen compound me most cheerful
aft af the Story
Aniah which s 50 miles from Alep-
occupied by ihe British as en-
ltH 4N taelr Palestine campaiEn
y. atl-
Nihula mand1tes and spheres ~ In.
rFuenea they marched out ana ihl
ltncn marched in.
M Aluiab was uuiot and happy whiil
tta British were SO the saddle. Sal,
3iss Kelley
rs They have Che art" she continued
f laNtnG B conquered people haW
iflr 1Nn way ia n0n-esseniials VII d
4iey have their way in essentials
aes deal ont absolutely imparti8
KS Use. whether the offender IS a Turl
% Armenian. q beggar or a pasha
Aaa they did great relief and repairi
tInH work
H when the French came In thl
Nfks began 70 forget they had beer
ftekcd and their country dismemhered
~tley became restive and iusoiant
ae ultimate result was the five-da,
se 81 tie Christlan quarter. which
sFe Miss Kelley the adventure q hei
3iie
SIS. The beginning 0f The five days wa.
iEnalized hN two Turkish shots fire,
% opposite quarters OF the town
Then the massacre began" saig
Hiss Kelley Nii the Christians WI,
Happened q 10 the market placl
were hacked ia pieces And there thl
Turks captured 31 French soldiers ang
Two sergeants
-. There was 9 rush for Che Christian
Heaislrict. but there the Turks met
surprise. Ny clever Armenians ha,
been organizing and planning for thre.
months Every street was barrioadei
and defended by sharpshoOters wit
files. And Christians began pourinl
mo our compound, which had higl
'WatiS and heavy gates.
if The header Of the defense Ivas
young Armenian named I,eVouian.
Young Mems Christian Associafiol
secretary. Why. that boy had beer
Slving his comrades military instr4ps
5ion in the fields for months and prs
lending he was only teaching then
Young Mems Christian. Association
xercisos.
The defenders had planned exaciff
Fhere TO Gun holes in Che walls al sue
'essive houses so that the populatio
saould circulate freely without appear
ing n the streets, and in few hour