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Show Major General Wood Wires Asks Telegram to Assist Near East a a ' Wants Generosity Renewed MAJOR (3KXKRAL LKONARD WOOD of the United States army, In wire to the editor oT The. Telegram, appeals for aid In the Near Kant relief drive. He say that America haa aided the suffering Armenian In the paat and he hopes that they will re-. re-. new their generosity so that the 111 and the hungry will not die. The wire ! tollows: "As chairman of a special committee of representative men and wo. ' men of the country churned with piecing before the American people the desperate need of two and a hulf million Armenians, the remnant of the oldest Christian nation, whose Bufferings through sixteen centuries seem j to have brought them no nearer to peace, liberty or security, I beg your I personal cooperation and the influewce of your newspaper to forward an appenl for a Lenten sacrifice offering to enable the Near East relief i to go on with its work of mercy. "Over one hundred thousand little children who have been kept alive ! by American generosity for the past three years sr absolutely depend-i depend-i ent upon the support which America gives them through the Near East relief. 1 feel that however magy and however worthy the other appeala which are being mad .la tba great heart of .America these days mujt be, this cry from the little children of the land where Christ gave Hla life for mankind cannot remain unanswered. Will you help to sava this murtyred people 7" |