Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1916-04-07 | Page 2 | Half Million Turks Facing Starvation

HALF MILLION TURKS FAG I N GSTAR V ATI 0 N APPEAL TO AMERICAN RED CROSS FOR ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT. Supplies Cannot be Shipped to Turkey From America Because of Blockade, Block-ade, But May be Sent from Roumania. Washington. The American Red Cross received word Saturday that Turkey for the first time is ready to accept aid for 500,000 of her citizens, who face starvation. Hundreds, it was said, are dying for lack of food. Ten thousand dollars was cabled to fill immediate needs. A message from Red Cross agents in Turkey said the American organization organi-zation would be permitted to co-operate with the Red Crescent. The dispatch dis-patch added: "Great suffering throughout country, coun-try, particularly at Constantinople and suburbs along shores of Marmora, Mar-mora, at Adrianople, Bruss and Smyrna. Smyr-na. These people, 500,000, not com prising Armenian refugees, need help for bread. Hundreds dying of starvation. starva-tion. No relief in sight. Typhus is spreading with high mortality." Supplies cannot be shipped to Turkey Tur-key from America because of the allies' al-lies' blockade and foodstuffs probably will be purchased by the Red Cross and sent from Roumania.