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Show and wc hope to have the gifts from these denominations to help buy food J before the next ship sails on its life saving mission. All money and clothing cloth-ing to assist with this next relief cargo car-go should be sent to Northwestern headquarters of the Near East Relief at 722 Peyton building, Spokane." I RACE WITH DEATH 1 SOON WILL START To be sped on a ten-thousand-mile race with death, fifty thousand pounds of cast-off clothes and shoes, given by the people of this and neighboring neigh-boring Northwest sections, will leave Seattle in a few days. With other relief supplies from ad-jjacent ad-jjacent states, these old clothes wiil be dispatched by the Near East Relief to tho rescue! of the lone crav lines of shivering, hunger-tortured women, children and feeble old men, comint in writhing columns out of the Turkish Tur-kish interior to escape from the cruel-tics cruel-tics of the Turkish Nationalists. ; Tart of it will go into the mountains moun-tains of the Ralkans, Anatolia and the Caucasus for the orphans, huddled hud-dled t.ogathcr there in pathetic groups 'couching before the wind and whirling whirl-ing snow little boys and girl; who 1 now grope for covering among thin 'rags, as night overtakes th"m in their brave fight for life and turks them in with ice blankets. This emergency shipment, goes a-board a-board the United American steamer, "Montieello", siding from Seattle about the mmiddle of the coming week, according to a special announce mcnt from the reli f society. "Another relief ship will sail soon after the Montieello leaves, " says E. A. Potter, executive secretary of the organization. "When that second ship goes, we want to be able to send food as well as clothes, for more tham two million Christian people, fleeing from certain death behind in Asia Minor, toward the hope of life and safety somewhere ahead, arc struggling in the grip of starvation as well as with the killing bbc.t.; of winter. "Members of the Presbyterian, Christian, Hapli.il, Congregational and various other churches have been requested by their national leaders to set aside Sunday January 21, as a date for special giving to Near East Relief, |
