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Show THREW OURTHS OF NATIVE HOUSES OF ARMENIANS ARE DESTROYED All American Property at Kessab Razed by Moslem Raiders Armenian Church and New Protestant School Still Stands Unfortunates Absolutely Ab-solutely Destitute and Supplies Inadequate Turkish Reserves Re-serves Cannot Be Trusted and People Are in Terror Beirut, May 7. An investigator who has just returned here from a trip to Kessab, reports that all the American property at that place has been completely com-pletely destroyed by the Moslem raid- ers, Tho American property there consists of a girls' high school, under the direction of Miss Kllle N. Chambers. Cham-bers. Three-fourths of the native houses also Have been destroyed, but Ihr- Armenian church and the new Protestant school building are stand- j ing. . Almost all the people who fled from Kessab have? returned to find their houses looted. They are absolutely destitute Some food and clothing are being distributed, but there is no system in the work and the supplies aro entirely inadequate Ono hundred Turkish reserves have returned 1o the town, but as they took part in the rioting and killing there, the poople cannot trust them. The protection they afford is in no sense sufficient. The situation at Deurytul, on the coast north of Kessab, Kes-sab, still Is critical. Adana, Astatic Turkey, Wednesday, May 5, via Constantinople, May 7. Macedonian soldiers, sent here by the authorities, arc today faithfully guarding guard-ing the American school and mission residence, but otherwise tho city is demoralized. 1 The grain on the Adana plain is rlpo for the harvest, but no Armenian Armen-ian refugees daro go back to their j farms, a9 tho nurrounding couutry is I still dangerous for any man not a Turk. I The relief work Is being carried on systematically in Adana. Special camps have been established for persons per-sons suffering from coutaglous diseases dis-eases such as typhoid fever and smallpox. small-pox. It is costing $1,250 a day to run these places. Adana.Wedneeday, April 2S, by messenger mes-senger to Constantinople. May 7. The news of the accession to the Turkish throne of MohnW V. which reached here yesterday evening, was the rea-sou rea-sou for weird and wild rejoicing. The demonstration began with the firing of cannon from the barracks and there was general thooting in all parts of the city for more than an hour. Some fanatics thought this would bo a good time to renew the attacks on Armenians and complete their extermination, ex-termination, and at once began to raiac a mob. The Turkish officers of-ficers worked bard to stop this movement, move-ment, and 'iy bugle calls and rapid patrols, they succeeded in turning tho excited evolutions of the people into a harmless celebration. |