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Show APPEAL TO THE WORLD I Red Cross Calls For Prompt Help in Relieving Re-lieving War Sufferers 'onsmri;rjoplc, Jan. 28. The Con-Btantinople Con-Btantinople chapter of the American Red ross society has cabled to the j national headquarters at Washington! B pressing appeal in be-half of the ' suffering uopcombatantss in the Bal- ! kan war. signed by United States Ambassador William Rockhill. Dr. Caleb Ca-leb P. Gates, president of Robert college, col-lege, and others Seventy-five per cent of the refugees refu-gees are women :ind children Worn out by the hardships, bereavements, exposure and starvation, many have died in the last two month", and : unless these distressed people can be helped through the winter mortalin among them will be appalling. Large sums must be obtained immediately immediate-ly from Europe and America if these I people are not to starve. When the I war flrsl broke out hundreds of thousands thou-sands of the Moslem Inhabitants of Macedonia and Thrace, tearing equal - I' their own and the. enemy s armies, j fled, abandoning their homes and all i that could not be carried with them ' They were transported as fast as pos- ?!hlc into Asia Minor and scrutered 1 among the villages. Heartrending Conditions. Now that the snows of winter have 'come their condition Is heartrending The Anatolian peasants are little bet - J ter off than they are, and the Otto-man Otto-man government is altogether lacking in funds and can do nothing The Red Cross organize' ions work-, Ing in Turke have co-operaied In, forming an effective organization, and! the valuable experience of American missionaries in the interior has been enlisted The relief work ie con-ducted con-ducted on the principle. fir of relieving re-lieving immediate necessities; and, secoud, of assisting the refugees to self-support at the earliest possible 1 moment. But the resource of these; societies have been taxed so severely severe-ly that their funds will be exhausted before the middle of February. It is hoped that this appeal will reach all parts of the United States1 and that the churches, charitable organizations or-ganizations and newspapers will co-; operate with the Red ('rose society! In relieving as gTeat suffering and as I crying and immediate need as our' century bas known oo |