The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-05-27
END STATE OF ANARCHY
APPEAL FROM NEAR EAST
TO UNITED STATES
Comes In Form Memorial Ad-
dressed To Congress From
Relief Committee
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.1

States congress has been asked to
exert pressure on the Allies and upon
turkey to stop the state of anarchy
in the Near East and avert impending
disaster to the Armenians under con-
troll of the Nationalist Turks. The
appeal is made in the form of MEM
orial addressed to congress by com
mittee of the board of trustees
of the Near East Relief, in behalf OF
at last 100000 tn people of the
United States VINO have contributed
ct American relief work in the Near
East"
The committee is composed of DR..
James l.. Barton, Secretary of the
American Board Of Foreign Missions
DR.. Stanley White, Secretary of the
Presbyterian Board of Missions, and
Walter George Smith, of Philadelphia.
They ask that congress and the Unit
ed States government take immediate
action and insist that England, France
and Italy shall restore the Christian
minorities in Asia Minor to their
homes and protect them.
In addition, the three trustees OF
the. Near East Relief have sent an
appeal to about 10000 contributors
10 American relief work in the Near
East asking them to bring pressure
upon Congress to obtain the action
urged by the committee.
Explains Action OF Committee.
In explaining the action of the COM
mittee, DIR. Barton said, that the Near
East RELIEF had disbursed over S68,-
0Q0. 600 in money and supplies con
S Il added ! I'VE no ~ s sap1s saa
humanitarian investment Of American
philanthropy in the Near East We
have, therefore, decided to try to
bring the force of those who gave
this money to bear upon our own
government and ehe governments of
our Allies in the late war to put an
end to the present state of affairs in
the Levant"
The memorial reviews political de-
velopments in the Ottoman Empire
since the armistice, and continues:
1t Is reported by absolutely trust
worthy Americans that Turkish Ma
ticnalists have proclaimed that the
mosques and minarets destroyed in
their conflict with the French they
will rebuild with the skulls of Ar
menians.
Women and children declare that
they would choose death, in whatever
form it might come, to such a state
CT distress, Of hcpelessnesS and of
perpetual terror, and yet no way of
escape opens before them. Among
these distracted Christian peoples a
state OF panic prevails. Their safety
seems to lie only in fight. There ap-
Tea:s to be no protection for them
in territory controlled by the Turkish
Naticnalists and the French protest
their going into Syria They seem
condemned by circumstances beyond
their control to certain death.
America Can Secure Protection.
America is in a position to secure
the protection required, if 1t acts
promptly and decisively. We can insist
tl'at England, France and Italy, who
have incensed the Turk by depriving
him of much of his choicest territory
and created in him spirit of revenge,
shall now demand and enforce the
demand that exiled and menaced peo-
pies be restored to their homes and
protected there" q.
The memorial states that "all Eu-
rope and the Turk knew that the
United States neither seeks nor de-
rires territorial acquisitions or control
in any part of the Turkish Empire;
the people of America cannot and will
not remain Indifferent when inhuman-
tiles of such character are openly
rracticed upon q helpless and un-
protected people.
This can be done without partisan
ship, since the recent platforms of
the two great political parties declared
in favor of readiness to render every
possible help to the suffering Armen-
ians. There has never been a time
when that aid was more imperative
than 1t is today. Delay is perilous."
The board of trustees of the Near East
Relief which, the announcement says,
approved this action of its committee,
includes former President Taft, Major
General Leonard Wood, Elihu Root,
Oscar S. Straus. Ambassador Myron
T. Herrick, Henry Morgenthau, John
H. Finley, Cleveland H. Dodge, c. =
les r. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, V 4,
G.. Mccormick, Abram I. Elkus, Frank
"A Polk. Franklin d. Roosevelt, Major
General James G. Harbord and Ham
ilton Holt.
Death Of Amos kimbaII.
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch]
Omaha, Nebr., May 25.-Amos Kim
ball, chief quartermaster of the Sew
enth Army Corps area, died suddenly
Of acute indigestion at Fort Crook
here today. He was born in New
York. The body will be taken to
Washington for burial in Arlington
national cemetery.
Passed Quarterly Dividend.
Associated Press Dispatch
New York, May .25.-The Lacka-
wanna Steel company today passed