Show I FUNDS SOUGHT 1 TO ALLEVIATE WAR MISERY i Five Million Dollars Called I For to Relieve Destitute Exiled and Starving Starving Stary- Stary ing A Armenians and Syrians TWO DAYS BArS SET APART FOR RAISING MONEY 1 Summary of Situation to Be BeSent BeSent BeSent Sent Broadcast Describes Conditions as Appalling in inthe inthe inthe the Provinces of Turkey BLOCKADE IS LIFTED WAS A S II 11 III I ING N G T TON 0 N Oct 3 The Thc The V V greatest American relief campaign campaign campaign cam cam- to be bc un undertaken ei- ei aken since organization organization organization of the thc Belgian relief commission commission commis commis- sion w was as launched today by the American commis commission ion for Armenian an anand and Syrian relief f. f A An Au exhaustive summary of the whole Armenian and Syrian situation was made public and will be bc s sent nt to ministers of churches and to many leading citi citi- I zen zens and relief organ organizations organization A fund of ot Is called to rc- rc hove destitute exiled and starving star i Armenians and Syrians scattered scattered scattered scat scat- bro broadcast dc st over Turkey Persia Syria and Palestine The app appeal appl l declares declares de do- clares clare that of ot Z nearly Armenians Armenians Ar Ar- originally 1 JJ in their native c count country have havo b- b been n massacred cr d dor dor or h have ve Thed d of ot wounds disease or ex exhaustion ox- ox since the thc war began bog Allies italic The Thc state department through urgent negotiations recently secured Turkeys Turkey's consent to extension of or American re relief re- re lief provided it Is Js distributed Jointly b by the Ule American Red ned Cross and tho the Turkish Red lied Cross Today it was announced announced announced an an- that tho the allied blockade had been lifted to allow passage of ot the thc supplies October 21 l and 22 have been set aside b by proclamation b by President President President dent Wilson lson as relief days s 's and the appeal being sent sont broadcast b by the tho committee culls calls for sermons in ever every pulpit In tho the country and articles In every newspaper Some of the Armenians cannot be reach reached ell at present since Turkeys Turkey's consent consent consent con con- sent has not been secured as yet ot to Armenia proper Thousands win will be found In Persia however and In the thc sections recent recently conquered by the Russians as well as In Syria In this latter section tho the appeal declares the thc situation has been made even more terrible b by restrictions of ot tho the allied blockade and tho the scarcity of tho Turkish Turk is ish railroads b by the exportation of or supplies for or the thc Turkish armies and by bythe bythe bytho the tho destruction of ot other supplies b by bya a virulent locust scourge I P ople Found I GraMs Gran People were found eating grass I herbs and locusts says nays s 's the committee commit commit- tee In describing Its Investigation Ih of I conditions there and In desperate cases dead animals and human bodies aro said to have been eaten In somo some cases casel men were lined up so that several soy sev I eral oral could be bo shot with one bullet buBet In order not to asto A mother said that not a girl above 12 I and some somo even younger oung In the village vii vil 11 lage lago of ot escaped violation The people kill and cat eat the tho street dogs s A short time ago aso they killed and ate a 11 1 lying dying manOf man Of Ot Ot from one village only one woman lives she saw her husband Continued on P Pago ge 3 3 AID SOUGHT FORWAR FOR FORWAR WAR SUFFERERS Plat wide Nation Arnzen Armenian aTt and mId Syrian Re Relief ef Campaign Launched Continued From Page e 1 1 and sons tied together tog and shot with one ono bullet She Site saw her daughters daughters daugh daugh- tors outraged O and then killed She was carried awn awa away b by a a. Kurd hut but es escaped as- as b by night naked and after terrible terrible ter ter- suffering tell foil In with some ref ret In Iii the tho literal sense of or tho the word to Armenians 4 arrived at 1 stripped even oven of ot their outer garments s There people died led and ani moro more in the tho country countr In relief funds are arc so In Inadequate inadequate In- In i nde adequate that many exiles in the destitute destitute destitute des des- places havo have only onh Ira grass 5 to eat and they are arc d dying of ot starvation b by bythe bytho tho the hundreds Et seems to have havo been dealt with most sava savagely eJ Less tItan than OO Armenians cut of have have- escaped death or deportation Of Or tho the first caravan of ot people sent from Dell Dell' Zor to Ana na tho the Arabs killed GOO 00 on tho the Wa way In a native nathe letter Jetter from Ja last t week eek the ho number number number num num- ber of orphans at that place wn was esti esti- estimated mated at Some Somo of ot the tho villages lo lost t more than third one of their pop pop- I I HAIMY JIU n H. BY 1101 Mr Ir and Mra Mis Jesse Jesso K 1 Smith of Blame avenue a are rejoicing over 01 the tho arrival efa of ef t ta a it- itson ason son yesterday Mr 11 Smith Is a son of President Jos Joseph ph F Smith |