OCR Text |
Show DYING LIKE FLIES IN THE CAUCASUS J r ON'ST ANTING PLK, Dec. IS. (By the I Associated Press.) Winter .is bringing 1 imrnens- misery, and hundred.-" of tiiou-isnnds tiiou-isnnds o' deaths from hunger and disease I inve ovu:-i---d throughout the- middle ea?t ! ("aurr-is. sulb Kushia. The flight of j re ,:ui ' s of aP i i;t I i ; ;;i .1 1 i e. through Asi-'i I Minor into suni:i b'u; si;i has In gun. Reports indi-'aie that the ui'p'"''e')c-nted ! hardships are increased oy various little wars :.;id also by Hul bands wno prv on one an-1 1 her when t iirre are no o: her ictinis. 1; is believed that, cannibal ism is i'rf--iuent. I j n.M I HK- 1 r-i 1 I '-. r- .''IT- 1VO"? jthan i.Vi'X' Turk- homeless, living in I the open,' in the Smyrna district and most i' of "them starving. The vuHan'p solicitude for these people is made impotent by his lack of funds. The country is ravished bv small scattered bands of troops who ai-e fighting the Greeks. |