ARMENIANS DIE
OF STARVATION
BY THOUSANDS
LONDON, June 2 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—“I have
seen towns where there were 7,000
refugees losing 1,000 of them monthly
through starvation. I have seen a
town thirty miles from the railroad
reduced by starvation from a popula
tion of 4,000 to 2,000 in ten days.”
That is what is happening in Ar
menia, according to Lieutenant Mel
ville Chater of the American Red
Cross, who has arrived in London after
an extensive tour of the near East.
Conditions there, he told the Asso
ciated Press representative, are sim
ply appalling. The people are in rags.
Diseas?, 110 1ess than starvation, is.
a heavy toll, arid it is difficult
to check its spread because there are
no medicines or disiinfectants to be
had. The people will have to be fed
by outsiders, lie said, until the har
vest which follows the next sowing.
The new Armenian state known as
the republic of Erivan is a country so
despoiled by the Turks, the Red Cross
officer stated, that it does not possess
even any seed grain.
“During the war,” he said, “the
Turks made systematic attempts to
destroy the Armenian people. They
forced their way through Armenia
with the intention of joining forces
with the Tartars to the north, mas
sacring: and committing- widpsnrpnrl
depredations as they marched. On
their way back they swept Armenia
clean, for the Armenians at the time
of the armistice had only 22,000 sol
diers in the field. The Turks wan
tonly destroyed everything in their
path. The result is that the Armenian
republic has no cattle, seed grain,
flour—nothing at all to eat.”
The Armenian committee for relief
in the near East is making every ef
fort, according to Lieutenant Chater,
to succor the starving Armenians.
From February S to April 1,
with the aid of the American Red
Cross, it put into the country 5,600
tons of flour. Distribution is a dif
ficult problem. Food is carried to in
terior points by native bullock carts.
While the Erivan republic is starv
ing, its neighbor, Georgia, is thriving.
Throughout the country, Lieutenant
Chater said, he saw fine grazing lands
and large herds and flocks. The
Georgians were not molested by the
Turks, ano the country has had to deal
with few Armenian refugees except
those at Tiflis, to which city Turkish
Armenians have fled since 1015. Tens
of thousands of Armenian orphans are
now there.
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"The Armenians are praying for an j
American mandatory. They think i
they would never be free under any
other government,” said Lieutenantj
Chater.
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PONTIAC WILLIAMS
Private Pontiac Williams, One Hun
dred and Twenty-fifth infantry, is a
full-blooded Ottawa Indian. He was
born at Hart, Mich., and educated in
the Indian school at Mount Pleasant.
He was in all the battles of the One
Hundred and Twenty-fifth, except Sois
sons. He was wounded at Chateau
Thierry and was given the D. S. C
for gallant conduct.
DISCHARGED ITALIANS
FIGHTING WITH YANKS
WANT TO RETURN HERE
ROME, June 20 (by mail).—Dis
charged members of the American ex
peditionary force of Italian extraction
have been besieging Consul Francis
Keene’s office here recently, request
ing passage back to the United States
on the grounds of being United States
citizens and of having served in the j
United States army. Employes of the
office attending to the lot of these1
discharged soldiers immediately de-1
inand to see their discharge papers.
After examining them they indicate to
the men that they have waived the
responsibility of the government in J
providing transportation when they ;
nave received their discharges, for |
here is one clause on the back of the
laper which clearly explains that pro- j
ledure.
“Oh.” reply the men, “but the com- j
nanding officer did not explain that
o us when we asked for discharge.” i j
“That will do, old-timer,” retort the j j
lonsul general’s assistants. “Your I
‘ommanding officer certainly told you
hat, and now we can do nothing
bout it.”
The men in every case secured their j
discharges to visit their parents or
ther relatives here for an indefinite
eriod, and thereby waived right'to ■
eturn transportation.
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