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Show G0,3 DESCRIBES ARMENIAN HORRORS "You can't realize what a sight It Is to see the refugee er.mp at Eatum," Petty Officer George Porter, of Racine, Wis., writes his family, telling of the work of the Near East Relief in the ports along the Black Sea. "The people are dying off little by little. There are workers of the relief organization here, but they don't seem to he able to take care of them all. They were the ones that made the camp. The families all live in grass huts, Just high enough tc sit up In, and P l ' 4 r-:. ""mwii r-v.,n inrimii.-- wi-j.vrt GEORGE PORTER. they are covered with blankets. There Is disease everywhere and the smell is terrible. I'm glad we didn't stay long, as I couldn't stand it, and you know when I can't stand anything there are few that can. I am sorry for these refugees, but we can't help any. They don't want money though they would sell their lives for some clothes and food. They don't stop praising the Americans. "Trebizonde was another1 Armenian Arme-nian town, but it was completely wiped out by the Turks, who are now In control of it. The Turks massacred all the Armenians over fifteen years o" age and kept all under that age to bring them up as Turks. The city loolced as if it was shot to pieces. Samsoun is the same as Trebi-zonde, Trebi-zonde, so you can see what kind of country we are travelling through. I am sure glad that we are leaving Russia and Armenia because I am sick of what 1 have seen. I think that these tourists who are trying to see ravished Armenia will be sorry they ever came over. These relief workers are nearly dead from work They are the people who can tell the U. S. something about this country." The Near East Relief, 1 Madison Ave., New York, Is now appealing for funds to continue the work so graphically graphi-cally described by the young Amerieun sailor. Camel's Foot. The camel's foot Is like R soft cushion cush-ion peculiarly well nrtnptpd to the gravel and stones over which It is constantly walking. During a single Journey through the Sahara, horses have worn nut three sets of shoes, while the camel's feet were not eveD sore. |