Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1919 — Brave Death to Serve Armenians [ARTICLE]

Brave Death to Serve Armenians

American Nurses Ignore Perils of Massacreto Case for - c Sufferers. i , ■ ... '■ —. ’■' ■* •■ i— —, —i — -y~-'■. "Tit —*—*' i ~ - •- Starving Refugees Eat Grass and Alt faWa—Atneneaw- -Commission—4or - Relief Is Doing Great Work in the Near East. z- ( onstanttnojde. Turkey. Two tmerienn nurses, Miss Margaret Mack ‘>f Hilibi-rn, N Y. and Miss Ruth Stuart'-of Now Y\>rk city,, working',for ■ the Americnil commission for relief in i.riie near l:ust. declined--to abandon the <j. k and wounded nt Shush; . Armenia, after ■ haring themselves survived a massacre .by Tartars of 700 of the -by Maj, -Duvid—-U,—Arnold.—of- EroxL-. -Meme. R. !■< director of the rmnmifc -alt'll. “ 7 -v»ur doctor and. nurses were i n the mid<t of the fight, but were unharmed." says the letter. •■<>n adt ice from General Beach I recalled the two nurses. They came reluctantly as there was an urgent need for them among thy survivors. The spirit. Miss Mack and M is,< Sturant have shown has been spiqndid and I felt that they —should -be allowed' to return it they went as volunteers. They signed papers to the effect that they knew the • iamter* and that they were returning to 'their work at th. ir ow t; requestJ"

Mending Magnetos With Thread. A humorous touch to an otherwise ! tragic situation Ist related by a relief • worker at Oulou Kishla. who writes: 4 —’TTte-men working out from Oulou 1 _r 'KTsFTa7arFc®verTngTC targe territory ! • ami obtaining large experience. Their chief outdoor sport is dodging camel ) J trains and leaping culverts. . Coaxing the missing spark plug from its hiding place vies with mending magnetos with ■ thread as the chief form of recreatilyi. ■ It is a rule that after the explosion bf the twelfth tire each day the flivver knocks off and its riders camp for the night, sharing their pillows with anyroving dromedary in the vicinity, and. giving* a treat to jthe predatory mosquitoes. There is a ear in J

Oulou Kishla. and a cook loaned to I 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 monYork TTty7~TtrtcTleV. R. S. "ST. EmeriiTr ami Miss Edith M. Winchester of, Philadelnliuf. who >v7is.nmong. tire first to~ volunteer for work in the typhus ridden < 'auCasus. Starving Children Die Daily. Just before'her death Miss Winches- | tor. in a letter from Tiflis wrote: “The sights about us are heartrending. A refuge two blocks from our office yesterday fed l.siHt starving children. We are feedmg them once a day. And - m.iee. .ju—-day_. tlut cart. -goes- around—-to-collect the eight or ten little corpses thSt have o ; aeeumiilated'."‘“Refugees are eating grass and alfalfa. The alfalfa they eat r;iw. one can always see children nibbling it." 'Yod.<»OO Greek refugees -.back of-the oi-tw—who—are—gredHftHy- ■ being pustnsl —out by —t he Russi an s. Thousands —are —fed. at an —American soup kitchen. Adana has 12,000 refugees and IS,OOO more are in nearlby , villages7~ ~