Show NATION FAILS REFUGEES OF DEATH BARGE Greeks Suffering I With Dread Diseases Left To Die BRITISH GIVE AID Near East Relief Takes Care of Remnant Reaper Leaves By Dr WILLIAM l NEt NEA Service Writer w Asia Asta Minor r June Juno 2 2 The Barge Darge of ot Death story 1109 ba just been told me and I shall tell It here cre because It presents a per perfect per per- perfect picture of what happens to plain people when fon folk like Jike tb a ago go BO to war wr It ts Is another story of Cree refugees who fled tied from their homes home In Asia Minor In fear of the ms- ms mis Turk The steamer Gut Gul Jemal earr- earr Ins carry jag Greek refugees arrived In the off ot here small small- smallpox smallpox smallpox pox and and typhus rampant among the ragged lot Jot After fter lying there for tor a week the ship wa was ordered by the Turks to move on to where there Is a disinfecting sta- sta station st sta station tion borne Some 00 of ot the worst cases were ere ere taken talen oft oU the ship and put on a barge to be bo tl toed ed to n where here there thero Is a 0 Greek hospital This hospital however was already so full fuU that several 1 pa- pa patients pa patients 0 were obliged to lie He in the same bed toed Yet the T per- per persisted Sk iL ii CARGO T 1ST V l So Off orr the hospital the barge bar barge Just a II flat uncovered Unco ered barge bargo like they haul baul dirt or coal or garbage t In unprotected from the tho elements by even een Cn a lay lay wit with It ghastly cargo of dead and dying I Four bodies were taken ort oft hopin there an and 1 then the G Greeks reeks hop hop- hoping InS ing in to induce the Turks to take tako the patients it lt t their hospital at had the barge towed over there borne ome 24 4 hours later the barg a ag still there minus minus ho e Cr 1 12 more of ot Its cargo These Ind died turing during the da dav The Tho rest lay la waiting for death unattended un- un Un un fe I for tor any more than H II they had been a cargo of o refuse from tue me city dump Mind lInd you the weather r was waa qute quite col cold 1 too not esen n inter ler was sac passed d around y BRING MI The first help which ultimately came to these poor people p ople mostly and children wa wai from a British warship which sent l parts part p of o over with water an- an an I soup and to stretch a canvas 0 o ethe er the buo ge of ot death death I understand the remnant were tal talc n en of oC of- of by the American Amerlan Near t and looked after at one of otheir o t their tb their lr camps This story Is la not news maybe mayb but It will wilt help readers o of Examiner The Th Standard to picture wha i ar Is like In this part ot o th orld corid And what happens to tE plain citizens citizen when hen these govern governments overn- overn ments start fighting |