Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-23 | Page 4 | Armenian Refugees Reported Starving

ARMENIAN REFUGEES REPORTED STARVING COXF-TAXTTXOPLE. Tuesday, May 20. Starvation and misery prevail among A rmenian refugees in the Caucasus region, re-gion, accon' ing to a telegram snt to Herbert Hoover in Paris by Howard Tie in z, American food commissioner for the near east, who i.s ln this cliy. Mr. Hdnz says that food for 500.000 In that territory will hnve to be provided by outside sources for another yoar. "Regarding reports of cannibalism which have come out of this district from Coa." said the telegra m. "I have i.en forced atiainst my will to beliew these reports to be true. I saw with rny own eyes mutilated remains of corpus which have been exhumed from newly marie c ra v e s. I did not s e an y h o d y ii o ha d atuaily witnessed the en ting of human flesh, but tlicre is so much circumstantial evidence that I personally came to believe It true. "Cholera is inakinr it? appearance and ' thc outlook i.; threat.., lns-"