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Show ''".""f o'tiiers. less man ''hair these iieople survived the forced marches .hrough hundreds of miles of desert leat, practically without food and ivith little water. His old mission buildings were sys-;ematically sys-;ematically looted and wrecked, and le and Mrs. Allen, now residing with lira at Walla Walla, lost nearly all .heir possessions and prized personal iffects along with them. All forces ind factions in the Near East, the Turks incuuded,' are now protecting mpplies and workers of Near East lelief. ALLEN TO RETURN TO HORROR SCENE Relief and M ission Field Hero Wants to Rebuild Wreck After Moslem Raids. In the hope of restoring his old mission mis-sion buildings and resuming his former form-er work, from which he was forced to flee over the bodies of his murdered friends at the height of the Mohammedans' Moham-medans' orgy of massacre, pillage and burning, Dr. E. T. Allen, professor of Biblical history at Whitman College, Walla Walla, may endeavor to return to the .Near East during the coming summer. For the last four years or so he has been aiding as a speaker in : the constructive program of the Near East Relief. Dr. Allen, one of the foremost American Amer-ican authorities and speakers on the Near East situation, and as such, much sought after and widely known throughout the Northwest, was, with his wife, for 13 years a foremost figure in the Presbyterian missionary field of Persia. During the last several months of his stay in that country, he was al-mostly al-mostly daily face to face with death, once being rescued after the Turks had built a gallows upon which to Iniug him. As the pioneer representative of Near East Relief in that district, he slung to his task of sheltering and protecting Christians fleeing before ',he hordes of Islam; reviving the ttarving and dying, saving the wound-ia wound-ia from fields of battle and massacre, ind rescuing Christian women and firls tram the lustful clutches of the Uncioti1St until finally derorted with |