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Show Swiss Appea!for Repatriation of All Prisoners of War CEN'EVA. Switzerland Nov. 14. The International CommUteo of the Red Croes hns sent to President Wilson and to the people of the United States an appeal to rescue Armenia from extinction :ii Hi i liands of tho Tiirks. The plea Is signed by iSdousrd Nayllle. prosldept of the committee, wtio has nsked that il l-given l-given widespread distribution throiiRhoi.it the United State. Invoking tho aid o1 America, the International Committee disavows anv political Interest and a- si rts that It is mo(vd only by humanity I and pity In part the message cays: "During the war it seemed to the Armenians Ar-menians thnt the day of deliverance was ! dam ning. How different- la the situation now ! Armenia seems to he forgotten: tho Turkish army is reconstituted; the crcat- I I est part of the country which had been liberated is now occupied again; the Ai -meniana cannot return to their homos from which they had been driven by violence, vio-lence, thousands of them are still fugitives fugi-tives and have found n temporary asylum asy-lum where the live a life of misery under un-der the constant threat of renewed massacre?. mas-sacre?. "Unless the allit-d powers step in and resolutely take up the cause ot the Ar-' menians. their future is not a mere return re-turn under Turkish domination it ts the completion of the work of destruction destruc-tion which has already been carried on with su h appalling results. Armenia will no more exist: it will be wiped away from the concert of Christian nations. "In Ihis dreadful conjecture, the Armenians Ar-menians stretch toward America their bleedlnR hands. They know that America alone can save them and they ntreat us to Join our voice lo their aixleril ciy for help. "W, therefore appeal to the feelings of generosity nnd justice of the American nation 's 'be day in which other peoples Joyfully hoist the flag of liberty to be. j on the contrary, the day In which Ar- J taenia Is laid In her grave and her tomb sealed forever? We do not believe that America can remain indifferent to such 0 revolting injustice or that the cry 0. t, despair ..i the Armenians will not W i . . in.. 1 1 in man Am rlcan heai la and ,,( horn1 ie i in. i more l I Vm rlca 1 omc forwsi I for tho Cause of u tlce end humsnlty sn:l rescue . .Ivihl- nation from a certain ox- ? Unction This will be one of the choicest fruits Of Am. i I. i"s iclorv.' ;.. OO ' M |
