Show I Nine Thousand Ragged Refugees Face Death in Constantin Constantinople Quarters s n 4 St F c Jv S J J wi c w- w o 4 5 S I S 5 S p Governor Ex-Governor Allen Alien All n of Kansas and refugees U Asia Minor June 23 The bottomless pit it of ot hell could be belittle belittle belittle little worse than a certain corner of this quarter of ot Constantinople where Greek refugees lie dy dy- dy- dy ing On a II point of ot land Jutting out Into th the Sea of Marmora one side washed by the waters the Black Dlack sea ver ever flowing In a swift swiftcurrent swiftcurrent current through the stands barracks a huge building built in the form of ot a hollow square I Packed Into these barracks aid Into the courtyard and stables and Into every conceivable nook and crann cranny are ragged refugees mostly women and children out of It the interior of ot Asia Minor and from along the tho shores of ot the Black sea Sleeping on the floor on oc the stones of ot the courtyard lying IrIng all allover allover allover over the place where space Is to tobe tobe tobe be found these wretched people clad In filthy rags and in a state of squalor almost unbelievable are waiting waiting and and for tor what ALL UNWELCOME The Greeks say they cannot take them because they have no place for tor them all available buildings and encampments throughout the nation being already Jammed with more than a million n refugees who have ha already arrived in Greece The Turks d do not want them and they cannot return to their homes lest they be massacred d. d What Is to become of ot them Smallpox and typhus are answerIng answerIng answerIng answer- answer Ing that question They are dying at the rate rte of from to COO a week victims of these terrible dis dis- cases eases The Near East relief Is 15 working heroically among these people yet in the absence of any cooperation whatever on the p part rt of ot the Turks the task is well nigh hopeless It ItIs Itis i is even said tho the Turks look with grim satisfaction upon the appalling appallIng appalling appall appall- ing death rate It It is solving the problem of ot the Greek refugees for tor them Certainly the Turks are more of or ofa ora a hindrance than a help In the re relief rework re- re Bet lief work here Even Then the AmerIcan American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean food tood brought in from the United States to feed these starving starving StarvIng I ing and dying wretches must pay duty to the Turks More than once the herculean ef et- et forts the American workers and their assistants have gone for tor naught through th the th direct interference ence of ot the Turks TERRIBLE CONDITIONS I I 1 n H Here re is an Instance The sick people the dying and the dead being mingled p in one In- In mass typhus patients lying on the same mat with a ty typhoid typhoid typhoid ty- ty patient or the victim of pneumonia the American workers yorkers set about to clean house segregate segregate segregate segre segre- gate the patients delouse the sufferers sufferers suf suf- era fec-era and disinfect the barracks It was like cleaning the Augean stables The patients themselves of ot a mentality which made them insensible to all ideas of ot sanita sanitation sanitation tion added to to the difficulty They could grasp nothing beyond stringing stringing string string- ing a blue glass bead about their necks pecks and trusting to that to frustrate frustrate frus true disease and death PATIENTS ROBBED I But one by one the rooms 1 in the barracks proper were cleaned die dis disinfected infected deloused and the tho patients washed and cleaned and put back I Finally the work was almost com corn Then one night terrible screams I I were heard coming from the etal eta eta- l I bles where the overflow refugees were crowded Turkish robbers from the neighboring hills hihl were sere hold holdin holding In up the sick an and d dying and dead and well and robbing them of their pitiful belongings I The Turks called in to stop the robbery robber at once drove the typhus and smallpox stricken out of the stables into the barracks all over it scattering infection all over o again throughout the place And so the horror goes on here in this on one camp There are Oth oth- ers Some 2000 refugees are InI in I Constantinople while another are in similar camps along the I I shores of ot the Black sea walling waiting waiting i |