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Show AMERICANS FACING DEATH JN CILICIA TO REMAIN ENDANGERS THEIR LIVES AND TO MOVE INVITES MASSACRE. Situation is Complicated by the Refusal of Americans to Desert the Armenian Orphans That Are Under Their Protection. Chicago. A message received by the Tribune from its correspondent at Beirut says the French have evacuated evacuat-ed lAdana and there are many Americans Ameri-cans in Cilician cities which are beleaguered be-leaguered by the Turks. French garrisons gar-risons at Belemadir and Bozanti have not been heard from for a mouth. Americans must be got out of the beleaguered cities of Cilicia, where their lives are in serious danger. A message has reached Beirut concerning mission workers who escaped from Aintab and Urfa after being besieged a month. John II. Boyd, who was director at Aintab, is en route to Constantinople Con-stantinople to appeal to the United States high commissioner there for aid, and, if necessary, he will go to Paris. Loretta Bigley of Chicago and Eliza beth Harris ot Fort Wayne, lnd., are now at Beirut. They say the Turks were fought for twenty-one days at Aintab. When they left, the women, say, they promised Americans who had lived there for twenty-five years to spare no effort to bring to the attention atten-tion of the American authorities the dangerous position of the Americans in Cilicia. They hope for action. They say that neutrality is out of the question ques-tion for Americans in besieged cities. They declare that Americans at Aintab Ain-tab and Urfa were forced, in self-defense, self-defense, to shoot Turks. Turkish nationalists are accusing the Americans of aiding the Armenians, Armen-ians, and the predicament of the Americans at Aintab is made worse because they refuse to desert the orphans. or-phans. Instead, they insist on removing remov-ing 1000 of them from the bandit-infested territory into the peaceful zone. This would necessitate a powerful es fort. An attempt on the part of the French to fight their way to Marash and Urfa and other cities held by the Turks would precipitate more general fighting. Americans in many places, particularly at Aintab, refuse a Turkish Tur-kish escort, fearing treachery. The landing of an American force in Cilicia might cause a massacre of Americans at places where the Turks are supreme1. |