Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1920 — REFUGEES CROWD CONSTANTINOPLE [ARTICLE]

REFUGEES CROWD CONSTANTINOPLE

Turkish Capital Holds 100,000 Rues in Flight From Reda. CHARITY COMMITTEES TAXED Relief Workers Make Piro to the Unitod States for Financial Aid— Soviets Make Further Progrro* Against Ukrainian*. Constantinople, Nov. 22.—An order of the day issued by Gen. Baron Wrangel of the Russian volunteer army estimates the number of refugees in Constantinople and vicinity,at upward of 100,000. Local committees and charitable institutions are working to Ameliorate the condition at the refugees. Russian ships abroad have been ordered to come here to relieve the congested steamers now In the harbor and prevent an epidemic. 10,000 Refugees Land. Ten thousand refugees were landed at South Scutari, where they were given shelter and food. The American committee for relief in the Near Bast is caring for 400 Russian children at the Trachoma hospital tn Bebeck, a .suburb of Constantinople. At a meeting of American citizens representing relief and commercial organizations in Constantinople a resolu tlon was adopted calling upon Admiral Hugh Bristol, the American high commissioner, to cable the United States government for funds to mitigate the present disaster. The resolution also called upon President Wilsons to appeal to the American people to give generously tp the American Bed Cross and other relief organizations. The cost of feeding the refugees amounts to nearly a million francs dally. Soviets Crowd Ukrainians. London, Nbv. 22.—Further progress by the soviet Russia forces In their campaign against the Ukrainians is announced in the official statement from Moscow, received by wireless. “In the Mozyr and Rechltsa regions fighting is proceeding in our favor. We have taken a large number of prisoners. In the direction of Proskurov, during fighting, we occupied Deraznia."