wUrrmiNa in amesii,
A ?:Icl Ela'ffr.tent of Fre'i.
Trustworthy information indicates
that the newspaper accounts of :a
lamities in Armenia have not been
exaggerated, but on the contrary, the
terrible details have not been realized.
The New York Committee states:
Within the last few months, addi
tional and greater atrocities have
been committed. Hundreds of towns
and villages have been destroyed,
and statements fom American eye
witnesses of the most competent and
trustworthy character have been
placed in the hands of the Committee,
showing that probably not less than
50,000 innocent people have already
been put to death, and at least 350,
000, mostly women and children, are
row entirely destitute and in danger
of perishing from exposure as well as
starvation.
The limitations which the plans of
Armenian Relief impose upon this
statement make even a partial recital
of facts difficult.
A responsible English traveller in
Armenia, whose statements are re
ceived by high authority as accurate
and reliable, writes :
"If a detailed description were
possible of the horrors let
loose upon Turkish Armenians, there
is not a man within the kingdom of
Great Britain whose heart-strings
would not be touched and thrille
by the gruesome stories of which it
would be composed.
The Outlook in its issue of Jan
nary 18, 1806, prints the following
" The situation of the Armenian
Christians is pitiable almost beyond
expression. Leaving the political
and international phases of the East
em question out of view altogether,
the entire world ot humane people is
urgently called upon for sympathy
and assistance. I Ins aid must b
prompt to be of avail. Letters from
the ravaged districts show that famine
is following massacre. One letter
just received from Van says: All
business and work of all kinds have
been stopped for two months which
means starvation to hundreds. And
worst of all, there is no light ahead 1
The misery m Harpoot, Biths, Erzer
oum, and scores of the villages is
intense, and increases as winter ap
proaches.
If information' concerning the
massacres at aassoun, Van, Biths
Erzeroum and other places with all
me attendant miseries, otten worse
than death, are desired, the informa
tion is readily accessible through other
channels.
Competent authority increases the
statements ot the wew York Com
mittee and figures the deaths by
violence from the autumn of 1804 to
a recent date at 60,000, and the num
ber of the impoverished people at
nearly 400,000. The distress is most
aggravated and includes the loss of
evervthincr needed to sustain lift
Houses, clothing, cattle, food supplies
are gone, and m many instances the
fathers of families urjon whom wiv
and children depended for support
are gorje, too.
A letter from an American in one
of the devastated towns, written late
in December, contains the following :
" The more information we get
the more distressing as a rule, the
condition seems to be and the greater
is the need for relief. The report is
everywhere much the same, a large
portion of the Armenian houses
burned, everything, clothing, bedding
an j food carried off. The surviving
people bury themselves in straw.
Children are already dying of cold
and hunger. Many persons are
wounded aud uncared for. An officer
says he has seen women who had
gone to a Turkish village to beg a
little bread dead on the road, from
starvation and exposure."
The following quotation is taken
from a letter dated in another town,
also by an American correspondent :
"The relief work of Dr. Grace
Kimball at Van, Armenia, has ex
tended since her last report to you.
The money sent has already done an
immense amount of good. She now
employs over nine hundred, repre
senting 4500 souls, that are kept
from starvation by her efforts ; yet
she could employ many more in her
industrial relief, but for lack of funds.
The turning away of applicants is the
hardest task of all. Her factory has
also been a school of honesty to those
employed. The work is a shining
example of clean upright business
methods and Yankee executive
ability.
" Since the first of November more
than two hundred and seventy vil
lages in the Van province have been
cleaned out by the Kurds, innumer
able cruelties were perpetrated, small
children were thrust' into braziers
lined with coals. Dr. Kimball had
e such case to treat. Thousands
f famished, almost naked creatures
have toiled barefoot through the
snow to the city. Large quantities of
wheat were secured and two bread
ovens opened. Each applicant is
"istered, after investigation, given
clothing for his family and a ticket to
"jeoveu. Over five thousand have
ten fed and clothed in the last three
weeks. (The' clothing is that made
v weavers already mentioned.) In
addition there are surgical cases, the
reult of the massacres.''
Still another letter from another
point gives other experiences known
ti the writer, also an American.
" A letter has also been received
from Marash, telling of fearful destitu
tion since two massacres there. Every
Christian house was burned or plund
ered of all its contents. Beds, cloth
ing, rugs, cooking dishes, coal, wood,
and food all gone. The houses
torn down, and timbers pulled out so
that they are uninhabitable. The
families are huddling together in
cellars and stables without covering
at night. (Marash is as cold in winter
as New York.) But there are so
many to help that only four cents can
be given to each person a week."
They are pathetically grateful for this.
A reliable Constantinople corres
pondent writes about the middle of
last month, January :
Three thousand were killed at
Ourfa, on the twenty-sixth of Decem
ber. The Government calls it an
attack by the Bedouin. The English
and American legations have asked
to have obstructions removed from
relief work at Bitlis. An English
consular agent is to go to Bitlis. The
situation at Marsovan seems slightly
improved. Additional statistics from
Harpoot give 8054 houses burnt, and
15,845 killed in that field."
In a recent letter Miss Grace Kim
ball herself writes :
" The gratitude of these people is
touching in the extreme. Would that
I could send to each one who has
given to this work the blessings and
the prayers and the gratitude that are
bestowed on them daily. And yet
the cry goes up for more help. Winter
cold and rain are upon us. Thousands
have but the thinnest and most rag
gcd clothing, no shoes or stockings,
many no beds, and most no fuel or
other winter provisions. Thousands
never taste anything but coarse, dry
bread for weeks and months at a
time and little enough of that
while especially in the villages, hun
dreds have not even that, and are on
the verge of starvation. I doubt not
that many will have actually starved
before these words are read in
America."
THE APPEAL.
Never before has the Citizens'
Permanant Relief Committee of
Philadelphia presented to the people
it represents a case that can be com
pared in distress with that of the
Armenian sufferers. It contains every
phase of human misery. The imagina
tion fails in the effort to picture the
forms of privation which perverted
ingenuity has devised for their afflic
tion.
Johnstown and Russia, Memphis
and other places have claimed and
have received generously from the
people for relief from the calamitous
results of flood, famine, earthquake,
and enforced idleness.
Shall this last and strongest appeal
have equal sympathy ?
The lateness of the demand should
not give pause to liberality. On the
contrary it should increase it.
Only donations of money are need
ed. They should come from Religious
Organizations. individuals, trade
committees.
Funds may be remitted to
Drexel & Co , Treasurer, Phila,
Or to Hon. Charles F. Warwick
Mayor and Chairman,
Citizens' Permanent Relief
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