| Show NO ARM ARMISTICE elk IN CAUCASUS colonel haskell reports to near hi ear east relief on desperate needs of helpless peace may orue come elsewhere I 1 in R the world but hunger knows no armistice to the near hear east says aada colonel I 1 wit wil ham ne N haskell hasbell allied nigh high commas sion ion in the trans caucasus in an appeal to near east relief belief I 1 1 madison avenue avenue new york city for food and supplies lor tot the relief of the starving millions colonel haskell Hasl cell is 1 in charge ot of all operations and disbursements of near Ilef ln the caucasus there tere ls la no fuel or shelter for the reater part ot of tle them m during the te tern rr I 1 IZA i v am na COLONEL HASKELL ble winter in the mountains he be says and the existing food supply la s entirely inadequate for the great number of refugees refugee without resources of any kind by a recent agreement between the prem premiers lers of the republics of arment armenia and aad georgia to cease cease ho boa a ditties and settle all differences ices by one obstacle to relief work la in the tb caucasus has been removed and makes accessible a great number of destitute people who otherwise would perish this alil winter two hundred thousand destitute armenian and tartars can now be reached in the districts of sausha and in the southeast section of the trans caucasus and we are ara planning lne to extend our work there the economic situation I 1 ts so desperate and food supplies so scanty that tile the georgians have ord ordered ered persons mainly russian refugees without employment to leave the city of tiflis about workers in the oil fields field of baku have been ordered by the to leave the city because there Is no work for them and food Is scarce around every station along the roll rail way are gathered groups of hundred of homeless people lying huddled to geaber on the ground the majority of them too weak even to try to help themselves from time timeto to time the stronger ones climb on freight cars and move elsewhere always seeking better conditions which do not exist two hundred and sixty three thousand homeless refugees from turkish arme ola nia thus are constantly r milling about throughout russian armenia mak ing the relief work conducted by the americans a problem requiring infinite patience and organizing ability this Is especially true in view of the existence of destitute in habitants of russian arm armenia e ala who pos sesa gess homes but no food as well as greeks russians persians syrians and who have been driven out of parts of one hundred and forty thousand moslems whose villages were destroy ed ad in the course of five years of con stant slant warfare are roped in the open around villages of their former enemies begging infinitesimal quantities of flour which they mix witt dirt to give the illusion of nourishment these hundreds of thousands of suffering adults mostly homeless arid and lacking every necessity of life having nothing more to lose are concentrated in a country as ai yet inadequately policed or governed they constitute a fertile field for the seeds of borslie cism or any form of anarchy the spread of which once loosed would be impossible to predict it la Is generally admitted in tile cou calus that the americans of the near east relief already haye hare saved the lives of at least babies and children and of adult refugees and destitute this work still Is continuing in art aa effort to procure funds bunas to carry on and save ave the lives of these hundreds hundred of thousands who otherwise will die di of cf starvation and ex cx pow near nar east relief of will which c h de beveland veland H dodge is 1 treasurer trea aurer huking nuking king an aa appeal to the A merican american p peo eo plo pl aw |
