Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-04-01


crimes-only little child, begging for life
Her sin hunger and nakedneSS.
She embed and almost fell she stretched out th pare
arms in suppHcation.
long time passed. while those fought to escape the
dict they must render But then the words came
eve have not found anyone who will give bread little
girl We have told great many people about but they have
given other boys and girls that they are tired OF CIV
ing There enough bread nOW arOundnO not even
crust We very sorry dear little girl buwe must let You
cruel jest? No! cruel fact, multiplied thousands upon
ed to die because we are red of giving would be enough to
banch the cheeks of every and woman who reads TINS page
But upon many of boys and girls the sentence OF death
has Just been passed.
In Armenia Christian being botted ou-whle the
world looks In Armenia peace did not when the rest OF
the world stopped fighting Last year 4O villages were desoye
thousands Of mothers and grown daughters were Voaea anu
san fathers herded into buildings and burned mttudeS
orphaned children driven into the wilderness to wander
and die unless perchance they might be gathered like lost lambs
into folds of safety by the Near East Relief Conditions are
than any time since the armstce Frantic appeals Tor
food to the children for more clothing TO cover ther
naked bodies hospitals and orphanage to give them re-
fuge surgng the cables to kind generous America
the hOped-for savior of Armenia.
And in the moment of this crisis when the question OF life
or death for numbered thousands Of children must be
cd the tender charity of American mothers and fathers has begun
to fail Their the multitude Of little orphans whose only
sin is hunger nakedness and unreasonable grief has bee
December and January and February and Marcnot more
cruel order has gone forth from the offices of the Near East Re
lief to reduce al expenditures twenty-five percent twenty-five
away Among the many thousands whose walls OF hunger and
Sickness and cold have yet been answered. not one can be
satisfied.
And now the cries and dsmay reaching America
CABLFGKAM via Paris: Thousands of depOrees filling
Near East threshold receiving crust of bread hoping for sum-
mer peace Shall push them off doorstep order OF
twenty-five percent reduction necestaes closing March hst all
general relief"
CABLEGRAM Constantinople: appalling increase Of need
general relief throughout Anaola Caucasus Reducon N
already Inadequate appropriations cuts of muudeS VINO are
hopeless without American aid.
CABLFGRAM from American Womens Hospital, Erivan:
we have eight hundred and two cases IN the hospital ana
children diving all of Evan All day long we can hear
the walls and groars of little children outside the Office bugS
hoping and will pick them up the sun SHINES hte
while they quiet down; when rains they begin AGAIN Ohe Gay
when rain turned awful to listen to tem Inc
note terror into the general wall plainly pece
tbe upstairs and had the windows closed They we'll know
what night in the would mean to them we are picking
them up as possible but 1t fatal to crowd them TO Sch
point that we would lose those already in orphanage
Erivan-that time prosperous city OF Armenia not lar
from Mount Ararat famous OF peace tor e peach Or
charS vegetable gardens that surrounded on every size
Walk through its streets to-day and here Wha you VIII see
"Chdren walking through the muddy cutters hunting Tor DS Oh
orange pee apple anything that once reSemd 1ooo
little BOYS and girls sleeping stables with straw and manure
spread over their bodies to keep them from freezing TO eah or
in the early morning deserted children lying in the doorWays OF
the buildings wrapped in old burap bags some SILENT perhaps
already dead sobng conscous in their sleep lhe
have the night their mothers Who I'M
able 70 feed them av longer have reSored deerton final
chance their chdIenS lives There is always cace
that they will be rescued by the Americans and IS with t one
hope that the mothers leave their little children praying " %
that they will be saved by the kind and generous Americans
Has that story Of unutterabe suffering OF passionate oVe
gratitude for what has been given that trusting prae1u appear
for rescue of children whose lives depend on S-aS dill
u.s. Are tired of beng Kd ana gehe
Seno YOUR check at once to CLEVELAND H. DODGE Treas
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