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Show ESCAPED FROM ARAB SLAVERY a i ' M-.riifTfiVii.n-in''riv-i-i;--M:vi-,'-i-rfr- .-.. Miss Vartenousch Karaglieusian, the first Armenian girl held as an Arab slave to arrive in America after being rescued by the Near East relief. Miss Karaglieusian bears on her right hand the tattooed mark of slnvery. Her adventures are thrilling, but similar to those of thousands of other young Armenian girls who suffered exile and torture at Turkish hands. With her family she was driven miles Into Turk territory. Of her family she alone survived the hardships of the march. After months she succeeded In having herself assigned to a Turkish Turk-ish hospital at Vartanousch. When the British captured Jerusalem she escaped es-caped to their lines and was sent to the American relief station In Beirut. There she met a soldier who knew her brother In America. Brother and sister corresponded and the first one to meet her on arrival in New York was John Karagheusinn. her brother, a rug merchant of Minneapolis. |