The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-10-07

fortunate child who never harmed any
body in his or her life.
We took ON big bunch Of refugees
aboard and took them to a little place
in Greece called Salonica and the sights
that | saw must have made me at least
twenty years older. ! saw two little
boys ashore to-day who had both their
legs broken and were laying side by
side and those Turks would come up 10
them and stick their bayonets in their
bodies and laugh at them. Finally they
at least had the kindness 20 end theig
suffering by killing both Of them late
this afternoon. | watched them all day
long and the agonies that those poor
kids went through was enough TO make
any one grow older by Just seeing what
Twas going on. And vet this II the goth
century and they call il a civilized
world Civilized hell il what ! call 1T.
The people raise hell in the States
when they are done a little dirt but
I wish that they would just see some
of the outrages that sre committed
here or rather has been committed here
in the last week and they would snrc
be contented with their lot no matter
how tough it would he.
can't tell YOU half Of what saw
because il would take TOO long, but II
| ever get back | will be able TO tell
YOU a whole lot more. The air Is 50
full ofJodors from the dead bodies II
horses and people that you can hardly
breathe. The bodies Of all the drowned
are all starting to come up and Won
can see them floating by the ship every
minute or so. ! guess that you have
read all this in the newspapers by thls
time but the papers do not know All
that has been going on Fer. and. VIII
be able to tell You a whole LOT more
than the papers will When you get
through with the newspapers that have
some stories about this massacre send
It to meNSnd will see how much they
have found out. don't know how long
we are going to stay here but ! hope
that il won't be very long because we
are all sick OF seeing this and not being
able to do anything about it ON ae-
count OF international law; we are tired
of the atrocities that these Turks have
been committing and the sooner that
we get out Of here the better il will be
for us.
Meanwhile the Americans are the
only ones that are trying 70 do any
thing for these people and ] hope that
they will hurry and relisye these people
before starvation starts in and wipes
them All out! The Turks set fire 10 the
city with the intention OF burning them
out and many were burned ito death
too. They are all around the city and
have these people surrounded and if any
try 10 get out they shoot them down
with their machine guns About three
ffths Of this city i burned down now
and IL still continues TO rage. The
Turks have taken everything that they
have been able TO move and there isn't
very much left in the city now.
The population Of this city was about
nine hundred thousand befides all Of
the refugees that have arrived before
the Turks took the city from the inte-
rior. but no one knows how many ~
them remain now and no one will ever
know ON account of so many being
burned and killed and even drowned.
Well guess that I VIII knock of sor
this time as ] have about seven .et-
tiers TO write, so viii close with los
Of love to all and write soon. Regards
TO all. Lovingly,
AIcide
My address is: A. J. T., radio room,
IL. s. S. Lawrence ESQ. in care post
master at New York City, foreign an
nav Eurooeau water Conafaufino
Turkey. Always write to this address.