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Show Harems Yield Young Boys and Girls Sold Into Captivity Captiv-ity Being Rescued. Under Allied Rule Turks Are on Good Behavior and Kurds Are Quiet. Now York. How .r0,000 or more Armenian Ar-menian nnd Syrian children, stolen hy Turks nnd Kurds nnd sold Into harems or Aran encampments, nre helng rescued res-cued from captivity nnd worse through the tJforta Of the near Last relief, now thnt the Hour Last Is under allied rule. Is told hy Qev, B. 0, JagOi who has Just returned from western Aslu.- "it la no uncommon sight in Aleppo, Syrln." says Mr. Jago "to sec scores of children hiought In hy the searching search-ing parties. The children are all dirty, ragged nnd stiirvlng, nml many of them hnve heen tattooed hy tlo-lr Arab musters. "Broken tearted mothers and sisters sis-ters pace up and dOWO the line of the rescued hoping to ace their son or daughter oi brother, stolen three or four yean ago. Many times there are happy reunions, hut often the quest 18 In vain, and broken-honrted mother! seem to despnlr of ever seeing thelf loved ones ngaln." An imp.. -taut fenture of Mr. .Tngo'a work since the country wiih rescued from the fnnntlcul domination of the Turks has heen the recovery of these stolon children. From parents and friends nil Information posslhle iihout the missing ones was obtained nnd this wns sifted down nnd turned over to the I'.ritlsh commandant of the district, dis-trict, who, In every Instance where the Information was definite, tins succeed. ad In recovering the stolen children. Among the rescued are many young girls whose fate In the harems has heen too terrlhle to tlosorlhe. Under the British regime In Armenia Ar-menia nml that of the French In Syria the Turks are on their good heluivlor and in many caaea nre oo-operatlng with the Boar Fust relief workers. Fvon the hrutul Kurds, long the .-preaaora .-preaaora Of the Armenians, are (pilot, hut those who know them host believe be-lieve they nre only waiting for the withdrawal of the allied forces for nn-other nn-other orgy of murder mid pillage upon the unoffending Christians. |