The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-07-18

bayonets back n forth along roads
until they perish Of starvation and ex.
haustion, says DR.. Ward. Ninety per
cent Of the victims are women and chill.
dren.
For the first time extracts from DR..
Wards diary are made public through
NEA Service:
May 2e. 1921-Fifty men arrived at
Harpoot under guard from Amasia.
They were kept in prison two days and
sent on to Diarbekir.
May 29.-Of 300 refugees starting
from Bilijek only l4O reached the Near
East relief station here (Harpcot.) The
others died on the way. Survivors most
~ had typhus and many died in hospit.
ais.
June 3.-Gave u slices Of bread g
days r~ations) to each of 3l2 refugees
from Eskishehir. 1t is all we have. They
have been. eating grass along the road
June 13.-Arrivals today were 574.
Robbed of their scanty belongings en-
route. Driven along by by bayonets
Women ravished. Young girls taken
away TO harems.
June 20.-Ten arrivals taken to hos.
ipitals to delouse. Group includes a
Greek priest, wealthy merchant and
wife, an engineer, and professor Haiga-
zian, president Of American College at
lkonia, and a graduate Of Columbia Uni
'yersity, who Is weak and ILL.,.
June 2S.-Of the Haigazian party all
forced to resume march. expect pro-
fessor, whom the Turk officials allowed
TO stay when he paid Is ounds gold.
July 7.-Professor Haigazian died.
We were permitted to bury him.
July 1S.-More than coo arriving daily.
Many taken to hospital. Poor wretches
beg me to kill them or even bury them
alive TO stop the agony Of march and
starvation.
July 81 often pray they will die
in hospital. AT least We can roll them
in sheets and give them decent bur-
ial-instead of letting them die on the
mountainside for dogs and v~ultures to
get.
August Turk officials forcibly
took 20 little orphans, all under IL,
from our hospital where they were con-
valescing from sickness and made them
sleep on stone floors of church and de-
pot. We got beds and food for them but
before supplies reached them, they
were forced out TO march alone. None
can survive a week.
August 1.-Two thousand persons,
mostly women and children, are here
from Sivas. Several babies were born
along the road. Mothers were forced Oh
and had to abandon babies.
August 5.-This great crowd tells the
same tales. Children by hundreds gave
up and fell by roadside to die. -,
September 3.--Thirty children born
lately in our hospital at Harpoot. Most
" premature. Only 10 survived.
Sept. 2O.-Crying of refugees out
eide our gates makes nights hideous.
Sept. S0.-women and children and
n few old men, 1000 in all, forced
through streets last night on way to
Bitlis. Some have come from as far as
Samsoun. l heard their cries; I'VE die
u thirst, waterl water!"
Oct. 4.-Day after day they come and
ro. II would be better If they were muir
dered outright. They plead for it. They
are being walked TO death.
Nov. l5.-When 1900 women and
children passed through Harpoot they
we're not permitted to stop SO we could
feed them. We sent bread after them
by automobile.
December S.-Seven hrundred women
and children from Sivas through here
today. In spite Of bad weather the
march keeps Up daily. They must suffer
terribly going over high mountains In
snow and cold.
December l5.-Police waited anti a
snowstorm came and sent great crowd
over mountains. Many barefoot In snow
officials reported 800 Of one party froze
20 death.
January 20, is22.-out of q party OF
several hundred orphans. we eoule
save the lives OF only eight.
February 2s.-Since our refugee CAM
was started four months ago, more
than COO have died. In December theS
died at rate OF 20 u day. In and aoou'
Harpoot we are feeding 1000 refugees
out OF 90, 900 driven from their homes
49, - ana a4.a Ap tha road 70 Hul