Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-06
Hunger Knows No Armistile Facts About he Near EdSt Relief
What is the Armenian situation todayp

l. What is the Armenian situation today? Armenia has been completely devastated both by organized Turkish effort and by rowing Kurdish bandits All the past crops well their seed supply and agricultural indictments have been taken by the former Two hundred and fifty thousand Armenian orphans today starving and added to these equal number of Mothers. The Rus border has been closed that Armenia no supplies iron. that quarter Herbert Hoover The sit uaon n the Near East the most desperate in the world What authority has the Near East Relief to take charge of collection and distribution of funds? By public No 25 of the SixtySxth Congress the Near East Relief incorporated and authorized take complete charge under competent executive committee of both the securing and distribution of all aid these stricken people Being incorporated required Congress be given counting of all collections and distributions each year
 What is the Near East Relief doing now in Armenia9
 The following copy of part of the Christmas cable from Col Haskell U g. A. in charge of the largest relief in Armenia present the funds the Near East Relief are providing in Armenia s orphanages supporting 10000 phans Hhospta caring for 5000 sick laboratories hand linz 10000 clinic refugee camps caring for about 75 900 refugees soup kitchens feeding 65000 destitute Flour is being distributed by our personnel which reaches over 100000 partially destitute Practically all the above people will starve this winter without This report is from only Near East District.
 Is it not the duty of the Red Cross to care for these people?
 The American Red Cross has officially and definitely turned the Near East Relief all emergency relief it had undertaken in Syria and Palestine while our expedition Icing organized together with many of the personnel that district and much of its relief equipment This has been done because the Ne; East Relief formerly the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian relief had been work ing in this field several years previous the entrance of the Red Cross.
 5 What portion of contributions reach the actual sufferers?
 One hundred per cent
 The of the organization both this country and the Near East through the contributions of well wish of the whose gifts entirely outside Relief tributions.
 G. Who responsible for the organization and the dis tribution of its funds?
 The National Committee of the Near East Relief con- posed of such as Hon. Wm. H. Taft Hon. Chas. E. Hughes Hon. Mvron P Herrck. Hon Oscar S. Strauss lanes Cardinal Gibbons. Cleveland H. Dodge Herbert Hoover Alex j. Hemphl. John R. Mott, Robert F. Speer and others
 z Does the Near Fast Relief show rreference to any class relioious body in the distribution of it's aid?
 does For example Cardinal Gibbons had this inves tioaed by papa dele0ate Bshop Doc in Constantnone who reverted discrimination whatsoever between Catho lie and Protestant any other Every hungry starv- no individual in the Near East has the claim to assist ance
 & Why must America these people9
 America is least arorn Of powerful nation in world She has the feest problems Of reconstruction and the She and has always been the nation vino aid inc worlds needy and sufferiro It eoes vhout ssvno that America the liberal and broherv nation on the face of the globe
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