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Show ARMENIAN. Gi'RL PLEADS FOR SISTERS Tragic Tale- of Harem Victims' Sufferings. More than ten thousand Armenian girls have been rescued from Turkish harems through the help and generosity gener-osity of America. This is the statement state-ment given out by the Near East Relief, Re-lief, which is making the saving of these tragic victims of Turkish cruelty one of the most important features of its work. That It Is a work which in Itself Justifies the millions that America lias spent Id this stricken land is testified to by little Miss Eliza Dodurian, a twenty-year-old Armenian girl recently recent-ly arrived in this country. Miss Dodu-. rian, through the intervention of American Amer-ican missionaries, was herself soared ' ri' A ELIZA DODURIAN. the sufferings of exile and the horrors of slavery; but. she knows all too well the terrible fate of her sisters and friends. It is for them the soft-eyed little girls of fifteen and sixteen whom last she saw being torn from their mothers' arms and carried off on the saddle bows of the Turkish soldiers that she makes her plea. What their lives have been since then may be guessed by a look into :he faces of any of the ten thousand who have passed through the Rescue Homes of the Near East Relief. Their heads bowed In shame, they creep Inlo the American relief stations, trying vainl. to hide the tattoo marks which proclaim pro-claim to the world their story. Thousands of these girls have been brought back to life and hope through the work of the Near East Relief. It Is to rescue the one hundred thousand more still held captive that the Near East Relief is making its appeal this year. |