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Show HEROISM SHOWN BY AMERICAN WORKERS OF NEAR EAST RELIEF m Cables Reveal Appalling Ar- B menian Need Hundreds of H Thousands Starving. H By CHARLES V. VICKREY HHHJ 'Ger'ral Secretary, Near East Relief H JJik,., Apprnx-linntelyflOO i- Vr " Aini'ili'iiti men nnd Hr , "I women urn slnnd- H CVi? ? rnl.nllv nt I heir H j,y yl post iii Armenia, hH $f- J,) TuiKcj nnil the flVfl S'W" Nl'"' '"' s,Any flHjW Sii't,' nf them during tbo LVflB iitfe n '""k' w""r "r '" HHH i "w' 4! ,"""n nro umloriis- LwSb v fii fll liik' ",mt " ln HHHj jUi Kgi America call "hard- H ViJA .-ra slilp." Hut these, H , CI,arltsV.Vlekrey'"lr ,folI,"v ,lcnf ' i llti' Near Last, HHHJ j. .IT volunteers serving svltl't a high HHHj ' iptirpote, nnil thej tin not recognise HHH i ! luirdshlp when they meet It, HHH They have liiul their opportunity t HHH ' j "wlUnlrmr with linnor from the field t HHH ( "T.imlne mid desolation. They hare rev HHH -ftr.'rtl to leave, because, thny know that HHH l Ihflr departure would menn death far HHH fe.nn of thousand of women and chll- HHH tlrcn whom their efTorta have kept H ' -Vlhc unit whom ilicy are determined HHH .o tone for it hetter future. HHH ( A dozen cables nre on my desk from HHH i, xnrlou centers In Armenia, Anatolia, HHH ' Ollrln nnd Syria pleading plteouMy n c ior me lives or mi nu reus or. mousanas HHH p.' 1 1 vrini nro homeless : "Sixty-live thou- HHH I ' Tamil refugees Constantinople nlone;" ( HHH ' ), ""Refugees flocking Into Aleppo;" . ' Twenty thousand refugees at iBinld;" HHH ""One liuiulrcil thousand people at I HHH i i JMexnndropol will stnrvo unless relief , HH . , Is provided ;" "Refugees nrrlvliiK from HHH Caucasus, escaping persecution, naked, ' HHH ' 'destitute! Urgent need to save most HHH -of them from death;" "Two hundred I. HHH ' i; UbouKnml starving tietwecn Kurs nnd HHH JVJoxiimlropol ! Severe winter nddlne I H Urt dlstrc." H AIiovc nil tnwern the mute nppeal of H nlre more than 100,000 little children, ' H '-orplinned, homclesx, whom the.se Amer- H ) Iran relief worker have saved nnd H -whom nc here nt hume must sustain , H tot only throuuh the winter nnd H I TTirlnp, hut throuch the summer nnd H , jj Jnutumii hh well If we do not provide, H ji Xlicy pcrlNhl And with them dies th H i ' Jfiiipe of u New Nonr East. H i )i The KiiBler1 season Is here the wi- H ; ;t "Mn that commemorates the Great Sac- H t, ' iinee for innnklnd. America la known H (i ! t-as'-A Clirlstlnn nation. Slio Is also the H ' wealthiest nation Hint history lins ever H "fcnown, H l Can we really enjoy our wenlth and B ' tlalm the name of Christian If we turn HBl j i , deaf ear to the appeal which General HBl t; ' liconard Wood, In bchnlf of thr Near HBl D'iict Itcllef, has sent forth liromlcnst HBh "lor n Ix-nten Sacrifice OfTorlnc to wra HBl . 'Ihese llttlo children ln ltllilo LandsT |