EYE WITNESS
TELLS OF TURK
MASSACRES
NEW YORK, Aug. 3 (by Associated
Press).—The Turkish Nationalist
forces in besieging Marash, Syria, last
January deliberately and continuously
fired on the American college and
Near East relief hospital and orphan
age there, according to Dr. Mabel El
liott of Benton Harbor, Mich., who was
in charge of the hospital during the
three weeks’ attack.
Dr. Elliott, who has returned to this
country, with Mrs. Mabel Power of
North Hero, Vt., Miss Helen Shultz of
Reading, Pa., and Miss Minnie Dough
erty of Holyoke, Mass., told an eye
witness story of the attack, directed
against the Armenian population.
The slaughter of men, women and
children was horrible, she said, and
the pillage of houses barbaric. In one
Armenian church 2,500 persons were
killed—only 22 surviving the attack on
it—she said.
Of a fleeing column of 5,000 Arme
nians, mostly women and children
driven from the besieged city, Dr. El
liott said only 2,200 reached their ob
jective, Islahie, but 75 miles away.
“The whole three weeks of the
siege the firing from housetops and
windows never ceased,” she said.
“The Turks fired many buildings all
over the town, and from our windows
we could see columns of smoke rising
first from one part of the city and then
another, every hour of the day and
night.
“The largest Armenian church at
first sheltered some 2,500 Armenians
of the better class, shop keepers, busi
ness men and merchants and their
families. But the Turks finally fired
the church and forced them out. Only
22 of them escaped with their lives.
“A communication trench was dug
from French headquarters to the hos
pital by which the French w'ounded
were brought in to us. They were all
Senegalese and Moroccans. The Sen
egalese blacks suffered frightfully
from the cold. We had 900 cases of
wounded and frozen feet — mostly
frozen feet.
“All over town, the Armenians would
gather in the nearest churches for pro
tection, largely because by being con
centrated they were in greater force,
and also because the church buildings
are of stone, and surrounded by high
walls, and thus made the best means
of defense. It wasn’t possible to live
■a day in a private house, as the Turks
would fire the house and drive the in
habitants out, killing them as they ran
for shelter. We could see that going
on everywhere.
“There were about 5,000 Armenians
who joined the column and tried to
make the march over the mountains
to Islahie, 75 miles from Marash, when
the French troops evacuated the city.
“There was no food for anyone, and
■only a few carts. Practically every
body had to w^alk the whole way.
“It was a ghastly, incredible night
mare. The worst blizzard that Marash
had ever known caught us.
“Most of the fugitives were women
and children. The men stayed behind
to fight and cover our retreat.
“They died like flies. Every 50
yards or so someone would drop in
the snow. There was no use trying
to do anything. It was all anybody
could do to keep going.
“We had to cross many streams,
which were frozen at first, but the ice ,
was broken by the French trains and
artillery, and when wre came along we
had to wade in the icy water, and then
walk on in the snow. I saw the
French general in command wading
the streams on foot.
“Out of the 5,000 who started only
2,200 ever got there.
“Mrs. Mabel Power of North Hero,
Vt., and Miss Helen Shultz of Read
ing, Pa., who came out with me, went
to Adana in a French hospital train.”
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PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 3 (by Asso
ciated Press).—After being operated
for ten years as a barge, the former
three-masted sailing ship William H.
Smith, is being re-fitted as a five
masted topsail schooner and shortly
will load her first off-shore cargo in
ten years. The William H. Smith was
built on the Maine coast 37 years ago
and was originally a full-rigged, three
yarder ship. She was noted for her
luxurious furnishings.
After operating in the Atlantic
trade for ten years, she was pur
chased some 15 years ago by the Cal
ifornia Shipping Company and was »
brought around the Horn for opera
tion out of San Francisco. As one of
a fleet of 32 vessels she carried
wheat around the Horn to New York
and Europe, later being placed in the
Australian trade. It was in this trade
that the William H. Smith almost met
a disastrous end.
The vessel had just started for Aus
tralia with a full cargo of lumber load
ed at Puget Sound ports when she en
countered a heavy storm and was dis
masted off the coast of Washington.
She was saved by her anchor off
Grays Harbor, and finally was towed
back to Seattle, a battered hulk.
What was left of the Clipper ship
was sold for $8400. Her value today
i is estimated by ship underwriters at
| $50,000, although she has been operat
ed for a barge for ten years, carrying
coal between British Columbia and
Seattle and Tacoma.
The William H. Smith has been re
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| schooner by her present owners, the
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August 17, has been made by Dawson
lodge No. 1 of the Yukon Order of Pio
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News. The day, say the authorities,
will be observed in appropriate style.
President Seguin, who presided,
named committees, with R. L. Gillis
pie chairman of the general commit
tee, and Frank Lowe of the ball com
mittee. President Seguin and Mr. Gil
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sisted by others. A big exhibit of
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