Gunnison Valley News | 1920-01-02 | Page 4 | Girls Held in Slavery

V Ml!! a; :: : i' :a.r aro;:ral -i''" dduo-ira dduo-ira ' V n ; ! -. Z Ami v'.vaii iced p,i,-,.-;i:'y iov ti.;- wa.r. cf litit-raiiug the worn, !:. GIRLS HELD m SLAVERY Armenian Maidens, Spared From Death, Now in Turkish Harirns. Thirty thousand Armenian j-'rls. spared from death during the Turkish massacre in the Van and Itiiiis rcea inland inl-and now leading lives of slavery in Turkish harems, hare appealed to the American Red Cross for aid in obtaining obtain-ing their freedom. Nothing was heard from these girls for months after their capture r.r.d it vas believed they had been slain by the Turks. Recently pitiful appi:iis j for liberation from harems in Anati.iia ! and European Turkey indicate their ' plight. I Colonel Haskell, high commander for the allies to Armenia, has appealed for '