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Show GlUIGWiS OP WARSJARVE Government Seeks to Aid People of Macedonia and Refugees. SAl.t i.NIKI, Saturday. Dee. 14. (By the Assneiated I'res.-. t One of tho most pressing pro'nlenis faein the Greek sov-ernment sov-ernment is the enre of tens of thousands of Greek inhabita n I s of Maeedonia who have 't-vn left destitute hy the war and to provide for the real iiutnher nf refugees refu-gees who are returning to (.rceee over e ,-vy road and through every mountain pas. 'I'o un'CL the situation, the Greek government lias appropriated jut'.OOu for re' ief work. The -Amerh'an Tied 'Gross is eo-op-ct alius with the Greek authorities, and v erv mans is heins employed to reduce the " surferini: and misery anion- the Maeedonian Greeks and the refugees. Manv of the refugees are suffering from , disease and are on the point of starvaj tiou. Some hae died on tlie journey home. The oorrespo n den L eoiinted forty- tie new graves at one station, j At Gra'iia and fanth the eorrespond-I eorrespond-I ent s.iw the bodies of lift'-ett women ;in-l ehildieii taken off one tram. The usual j I mode of eoi: e anee for these wrt'-hod ruoph- is rattie ears, into wliieh eighty j j nr )eil pa.-semze?'s are paek.-d. Many I have heeii foreed lo make the journey j I on foot and numbers of them hnve died on 1 he w ay. ! The eotidi". ion of I'mse wlio remained i n M aee ion ia d in in. t Rnltra riaii O'.'t-u-j pation is almost as bau as that of l.iose I who were deported. Man" of them are ; starving and Kreat misery exists ttry-j ttry-j where. I |