Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1911 — TURKS IN DIRE DISTRESS [ARTICLE]

TURKS IN DIRE DISTRESS

Special Call for Relief Made by American Board’s Representatives. Boston, Feb. 24. —Great distress throughout the interior of the Turkish empire as a result of unprecedented snow and cold is reported by cable to the American board from W. W. Peete, of Constantinople, the board’s treasurer. Mr Peete’s message said that appeals for help are being made from all quarters. A special call for relief was made by Dix Edwin Ward, who is in charge of one of the American board’s hospitals at Liarbokir, on the upper Tigris river on the border of Kurdistan. The dispatch said that a large number of Jews in the affected territory were starving and needed immediate help from Jewish and Christian sources.