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Show ARMENIANS RUSH INTO PALESTINE Relief Hospital and Orphanage Already Taxed to Capacity. EASTER CELEBRATION Various Christian Sections Bury Ancient Strifes and Observe Day. JERUSALEM, Thursday, April 11. Armenians deported irom central Syria and Armenia and others who are fleeing from Turkish oppression continue to arrive in Palestine in great numbers to take refuge in the regions occupied by ihe British army. In the week after Easter 5,500 refugees refu-gees reached Jerusalem. A hospital and an orphanage have been opened I by the main committee for Syrian and Armenian relief and are already taxed I to capacity. A celebration such as the holy land j never has witnessed betore was held I Ion Easter. The arious Christian sections sec-tions gave pledges to the British gOV-i gOV-i ernor-general to bury their ancient I I strifes and observe Easter together at l the holy places in Bethlehem and ! Jerusalem. They met in perfect con-i con-i cord. Four thousand Jews held an I open air meeting on the Mount of Olives today and listened to addn 3S by representatives of the British Zionist Zion-ist commission Stephen Trowbridge of the American commission has returned to Jerusalem from Jericho, where he spent Easter. Armenians Want to Enlist. " 1 found many old friends among the Armenians deported from central Turkey," he said today. "They reached Jericho in a state of exhaustion, having hav-ing come in by way of Es Salt. Their gratitude on receiving their first rations ra-tions was pathetic. 'God bless Amer-i Amer-i Ico,' they said. 'Your kindness Is the first we have experienced in three years.' Some of them asked 'Where can we enlist?' " , |