Show ARMENIANS NEED HELP editor news will you kindly permit us to bring to the notice of your readers the present sad condition of 0 the armenian people in their native land among the greatest sufferers of the european war have been the tha armen ians fans their condition is even worse than that of the belgians massacres by the kurds burds and turks have again broken out accompanied with atrocities A multitude of armenians Armen ians whose homes had been ruined and burned have fled across the frontiers from turkey and persia into russia there are about of these refugees of them women and children never in my life have T seen such suffering writes Tol stoys daughter alexandra who Is serving with the red cross near the frontier some of the tha refugees in her hospital had had their hands and feet cut off all vare emaciated and in tatters they are not only destitute but brokenhearted broken hearted many having seen their husbands and children slaughtered glit ered before their eyes according to a later dispatch from tiflis date of august armenians Armen ians havo abandoned their country with will the retreating russian army and are tak aig refuge in trans caucasia Cau casia in turkey where every able bodied man mail lias has been forced into the army the condition of the women and children is even worse the ravages of famine and pestilence lenca being added to lose ai a kurdish savagery in one town not a grown person was found foun oly ly 00 orphans the armenians Armen ians of 0 van were success arvi I 1 rl in repulsing tile tha attacks of tile the curds end and turks until tile the arrival of the russian army thus they saved themselves and upwards of 50 helpless ie p men and women with children childr n who had flocked there from the surrounding villages but this heroic deed caused intense irritation to the turks and kurds burds and it cost the alves of many more thousands of armenians Armen ians in the districts of bialis mardin alardin and Diar bekir speaking of the christian population of these regions a circular of the american doard board of foreign missions ader date of august 4 says the error ng among them Is beyond descriptions d script ions lons and the need of oc help immediate medi ateo and overwhelming most alost heartrending heart rending is the tale fate of the inhabitants of many towns in armenia ind nd asia minor who have been exiled wholesale and whose homes and lands have been g ven to mohammedan Aloham immigrants from balkan countries the ii nen en of these families have been de bcd inca for some unknown purpose and the women and children eb ildren tent sent to distant talat parts in mesopotamia and conla to live in unhealthy places or rather to per sh tar far from I 1 born friends and core co re from under this terrible weight of w woe oe armenia appeals to the kindheart kind heart ed e d american people the armenian orontes established in the united tates and in other parts of the world have made great efforts to relieve their eople in the mother country they ive already raised among themselves end sent to the proper agencies for distribution hundreds of thousands thou of dears cut but the misery is so great ind so widespread wide spread that help from other is urgently needed the american armenian relief fund fand ommittee makes the present appeal to the american public in the firm hope that moved with humanitarian I 1 eerlings ee lings the men and women of this auntry will extend a hoping land hand to this ais unfortunate and long suffering na tian of thelast the East contributions to the AMERICAN REI RBI FUND may be sent to BROWN BROS CO treasurers Treasur ers 9 wall st new york city sincerely yours J A POWELL secretary P S Aless rs brown bros cop co will transmit all funds in ili equal parts to the Kato likos supreme patriarch of all the armenians Armen ians t at tile the foot of ararat russian armenia and to mr air W W peet treasurer of the american hoarel of mis ails turkey |