| Show death eath AM to T serve arm armenians Armen evians ians american nurses ignore perils of massacre to care for sufferers ebers CHILDREN ARE DYING DAILY starving refugees eat grass and alfalfa american commission for relief Is doing great work in the near east constantinople turkey two american nurses I 1 miss margaret mack alack of burn N Y and miss ruth kuth stuart of new york city working for the american commission for relief in tile the near east declined to abandon the sick lck and wounded at armenia after having themselves survived a massacre by tartars of of the christian inhabitants of the town according to a letter just received here by maj david G arnold of providence it I 1 director of the commission our doctor and nurses were in the midst of the fight but were unharmed says the letter on advice from general beach I 1 recalled the two nurses they came reluctantly as there was an urgent need tor for them among tile the survivors tile the spirit miss muck and miss have shown lias has been splendid and I 1 felt that they should be allowed to return it if they went as volunteers they signed papers to the hie effect that they knew the danger and that they wore were returning to their work at their own request mending magnetos with thread A humorous touch to arl an other otherwise wie tragic situation Is related by it relief worker at bulou kashla who writes the men working out frow from onion kushla are covering a large territory and obtaining large experience th air chief outdoor sport is dodging camel trains and leaping cu lverts coaxing tile alie missing spark plug from its hiding place vies with mending magnetos with thread a as the oie form of recreation it is a rule that after the explosion of tile the twelfth tire each baythe flivver knocks off and its riders camp for the night sharing their pillows with any roving dromedary in the vicinity and giving a treat to the predatory mosquitoes qui toes there te la a warrn warm box car lu la bulou kashla and a cook loaned to the commission by mr oscar of the waldorf no one Is to have his name or address because the world Is full of guile the commission has lost three members by death paul D of 0 new york city the rev R S 11 Er erberich and miss adith al 61 winchester WIn cheter of philadelphia who was among the first to volunteer for work in the typhus ridden caucasus starving children die daily just before her death MISS bliss winches ter in a letter from tiflis wrote the tha sights about us are licar heartrending trending A refuge two blocks from our office yesterday fed 1800 starving children we are arc feeding them once a day and once a lay day the cart goes around to collect the eight or ten little corpses thit have accumulated refugees are eating grass and alfalfa the alfalfa they cat raw one can always see children nibbling it from batoul comes word that there are greek refugees lack back of the city who are gradually being pushed out by the russians thousands are fed at an american soup kitchen adana has refugees and more are in feariby ll Il lages |
