Show I CAUCASUS FOLK ARE STARVING A m iii e C r i c a 11 i-i Commission Sends Urgent Appeal for Provisions New ew York March Thou Thousands Thousands of oC men men women women and amI children ren tire re are starIng starving star ing lag to death In the Ca Caucasus casus accordIng accordIng accord accord- Ing Irig to the first report from Dr James JamesL L L. Barton chairman of or the commission I recently sent scat to tho the region by time the e American commission for reler In En the Near East received at the headquarters of or the tho cor committee here toda today There is no bread anywhere said the time report The Time government go has Imas not nota a pound There are people In Erivan wholly without bread and the i I orphanages and troops all alt through Erivan Eri Eri- van vau are nrc in terri terrible lo condition J 1 There Is not a dos dog cat horse camel or an any living thing timing In all the region We e saw refugee ee women stripping strip strip- pill ping the tho flesh from a n dead ead horse with their hare bare hands to today a Thirty deaths a a ada da day arc are reported from Crom twenty five o Cl from Etch Etch- and certain certainly more Another week will score lives lost For 1 or h heavens heaven's sake hurr hurry We c have food c d in the country now at Baku Balu and Datum Batum I to l keep cop the starving starving- people alive all for a n. time The Thc railways are I doln doing all the they possibly can to get food to the people but snow snot Is our OUI encIn enemy at present Please expedite as man many men nien a as you ou can also please remember we shall be through with our OUI food feed supplies supplies sup sup- plies pretty soon Oon so o money and credit t tare are vitali vitally urgent The food at Dati referred to In time the report la iS part of th the lie cargo of ot tons of of flour t shipped from froni Seattle on tho the Western Belle I |