Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1920 — 120,000 STAND IN BREAD LINE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

120,000 STAND IN BREAD LINE

More Than 1,000,000 Faw Death Ie Message Brought hy ’ Mitt Dakesian. Imagine a bread line of 120,000 fam people waiting for twenty-four boon a day for the dole of food that to the sole barrier between them and death from starvation. That is the situation in AJexandropol, a city In Busston Armenia, according to Miss Hermine Dakesian, a pretty Armenian girl, one of the survivors of four yean

of tike horrors of Turkish massacres and deportations. Saved by an American woman, sho has come to thia country and entered Oberlin College. . With her came fourteen other Armenian girls In change of Mias Adelaide & Dwight, a Near Hast Belief worker, who has been instrumental In helping to save hundreds of thousands of their people from death by starvation. Miss Dwight, who is not given to exaggeration and has seen conditions at first hand, says more than a million people are facing death by starvation In Armenia and win perish unless America aids. Herself an eyewitness to the slaughter of hundreds of helpless women and children by the Turks and a victim of the deportations. Miss Dakeelan, an unusually pretty girl, says there is untold suffering In Armenia and Syria. She praises the efforts of the Near Hast BeU< formerly the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Belief, to save as many of these people as possible. At Erl van*. I the capital of the Armenian republic, one hot meal is given out dally, and by this relief alone the city's death rate has been cut from a thousand dally to an average of twenty. At Alexandrupol, where the refugees from Turkish Armenia wore driven by thousands, the situation to appalling, Miss Dakesian says. It to to avert these wholesale deaths that Near Bast Belief la making a nation-wide appeal for funds.

MISS HERMINE DAKESIAN.