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Show isooppir FOR NEAR-EAST Uks American People to . Aid Sufferers Through ; War. VRW YORK, T,oo. U.A proclamation ,ir resident Wilson calling u,m the ..lc of the United states to contribute ( r.ey to sustain tlie Armenian, Syrian, , ek and other war sufferers In the t east during the winter waa made Wlc here today hy the American com-vUlee com-vUlee for Armenian and Syrian relief. I'l commlUee, with the American coin- Uec for relief In the near easl, will '"Iuct a campalBn to raise a minimum O,OOO.00O from January 12 to V.i, to 'l"7 ,,I,,H relief project, which Is ap-!'ivc,l ap-!'ivc,l ma,, hy ,ho ,,-rBn,.h Kovernmet.t. '"..'IT8' nl!i Proclamation, dated at White house on November 20, In part ''It Is estimated that about 4.000.000 oienlan, Syrian. Greek anil other war Herein In the near east will require "S:de help to sustain them through .the i:Her. .Many of them are now hundreda miles from their homelanda. The vast alorlty of them are helpleaa women and 'Huron, Including 400.000 orphana. 1 therefore again call upon the people the United States to make even more nerous contrlbutlona than they have i(le heretofore to auatain through the tiler months thoae. who through no i It of their own, have been left In a Irving, shelterless condition, and to . re-eatablitih these ancient and sore-oppressed sore-oppressed people in their former homcB i a self-supporting baslH." |