New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
NEAR EAST REPORT SHOWS MONEY SPENT
American Government and People 7 Feeding Starving Peoples

Washington, April 4,-The Ameri- can people and the United States gov ernment have contributed and the Near East relief has disbnrsed s63.- S00,000 in the last six years for the relief of distressed peoples of the Near East relief submitted to con gress today by Charles V. Nickrey general secretary
 The amount includes sl2,S0o,o oo0 worth of flour obtained through the United States Grain corporation and American relief administration.
 NickrcyS Report
 MT, Viekrey's report estimates that at least 100000 persons, chiefly Ar menians and members of exiled sub ject races are living in the Near East today who would have perished had # not been for American relief There are approximately 100000 children who have been kept alive and are safe, today chiefly because they are under the protection of American re- lief workers the report states. Mir. Vickrey and his associates in formed congress that conditions are worse throughout the Near East to- day than they have been at any time since the armistice. This is attribut- ed to the enforced exile of Armenian people from their ancestral homes in Central Turkey, the warfare between Turkish nationalists and the Greeks, the cutting off of food supplies from the north and the influx of tens of thousands of Russian. Greek, Jewish and other refuges from the famine areas of Russia.
 Scores of Deaths
 Scores of deaths are reported to be occurring daily from the starvation in Erivan, Alexandropol, Karakliss and cities of Russian Armenia; while hundreds of thousands of Armenian refugees from Cilicia and Anatoia are today homeless and dependent upon American relief.
 It is asserted in the report that there are at least 100000 orphans or dependent children in the territory where the Near East relief operates who can not be cared for with it's present resources.
 More than q thousand American l citizen engaged in the distribution of this $63, ,S00,00 sirce 1915. Of these 2S0 are now stationed in relief cen ters in the former Ottoman empire caring for the orphans. refugees and destitute. Many of these are volun teers giving their services without pay or at a rainirnrn bas,s of ynaiu- terance. Several of theGu haze given their lives by contracting contn gious diseases while at their work Of re- lief
 Refugees
 A disproportionately large number of the refugees are declared to be or phaned children whose parents per tshed in the massacres and deporta- t,ons or subsequent hardships of the war, Many of them have no living relatives to give them even partial support and some of them were or phaned so young that they do not know their own names and have been given names by the American relief workers. Fifteen thousand of them, said to be the largest assem- blaze of orphans in the worlds his tory, are in one orphanage at Alex andropol and the Near East relief  portions of the former Ottoman em pire. Besides it has two large or phanages in Palestine and more than l 1000 orphan children are supported C ln Syria. The report shows that the Near East relief maintains 29 hospitals, 59 s slinics and conducts or supervises spe- t :itl dispensary or sanitary work. \
 Required To Work
 Wherever practical the refugees a Ire required to do industrial work ls sither outside or within the institu- fl lions. The orphans in the Alexan- ls 1ropol home recently produced 1S,000 u pairs of socks in one week. r, American tractors and seed wheat ft 'ecently have been sent under the di- h .ection of experienced American agri- st ,uturists to enable the refugees to n become selfsupporting by farming.
 In the past year, more than 2,000,- p 100 pounds of old clothing has been D 'ent to the refugee camps and the re- c,