The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-13
GREAT HARDSH|PS ARE DESCRIBED BY TUSCALOOSA MAN Water Front at Samsun Crowded With Refugees,
 James Crutcher Tells
 Relief Organization
By Associated Press

Constantinople, November 1z.-Re- ports reaching Constantinople show that the entire Christian population of Sivas, Angora, Cesarea. Konia and the other large centers in Asia Minor are in flight towards the shores of the Mediterranean and Black seas.
 Samsun, in the Vilayet of Tre- biscnd, on the Black sea, has 10000 of its own refugees and 10000 others are reported headed for that port. Along every road and in every noun tain pass are long winding serpen- tine columns of men, women and children. goading along sleepy oxen, pulling wagon loads of their worldly goods. People are abandoning their homes. farms and everything in their eagerness to put the greatest pos-. sible distance between themselves and their mortal enemies-the Turks!
 Weather Indictment 5 The difficulties and inevitable hardships of the wholesale evacua- tion have been increased by incle- ment weather, which Is bringing sickness or death to thousands. James Crutcher of Tuscaloosa. Ala bama. of the American Near East relief. notified Constantinople, by courier today, that the water front at Samsun was crowded with nervous or terrorized refugees waiting for boats. MT. Crutcher states that the } available ships will only embark 2.000 persons He believes that not exceeding one-third of tho refugees will be able to leave the country within the period set for them to do so by the Turks. He. therefore, is making efforts to induce the Angora government to extend the time limit
 Men Being Held
 Reports from other places in Asia Minor say the Turkish military Is withholding permission for males from 19 to 55 years of age to leave the country and is allowing only women and children to depart.
 Rear Admiral Bristol, commander of the American naval force in Tur- kish waters. is concerned over the Angora governments order that all Christians must leave the country and Is striving to have the nation aiists modify this attitude.
 Bv winter there is expected to be q million or more of the evicted inhabitants of Asia Minor on the bleak, shelteriess coast of the Black sex. begging to be rescued. No one nation has the facilities for the enor- meus task of repatriation, and it is admitted 1t is far too great for the limited means of the League of Ma lions
 Stampede Feared
 If in addition to the million and half Christians In the interior and G8nstantinople the 45,000 Greeks. Arnenians and other foreigners are forced out of the country. 1t Is be- lieved there will be stampede of tremendous proportions, entailing endless misery and confusion. AL ready the best clements of the Brit ish. French American and other na- tionalists have left Constantinople, and the paralysis In business daily Is increasing.
 The Near East relief today sent the steamship Belgravian to Samsun to begin the authorization of 7,500 Greek. and Armenian orphans, who are fleeing the country in conse- quence of the Angora governments orders for the evacuation of Anatolia in the next thirty days.
 Relief ships are also being dis patched to Mersina and Beirut, which have become the two other extrem- tiles of the main lines of flight in Asia Minor.