Campaign to raise 30 million for Near East relief
United States ministers laymen and financiers met in New York on September 19 20 to outline a campaign to raise 30 million dollars for destitute peoples of Western Asia with projected needs exceeding 56 million. They pledged industrial relief and private philanthropy as no government loans are available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York
Near East
James L. Barton
Western
Asia
Trious
Belgium
France
Serbia
Relief Work Indorsed for Near East Aid Campaign
Prominent Americans back the American Committee for Relief in the Near East as it seeks 30 million dollars to aid Armenian Syrian Greek and other refugees in Asia Minor Caucasus Persia Palestine and Syria with winter sustenance and rehabilitation. Leaders include Wilson Taft Roosevelt Hughes Lansing urging nationwide support for the January 12 to 19 drive.
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American Committee For Relief In the
Near East
Asia Minor
Caucasus
Persia
Mesopotamia
Palestine
Syria
Woodrow Wilson
Western Asia
United States
William H. Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Asia
Turkey
Charles E. Hughes
America
Robert Lansing
American Committee For
Western
Aign
United War Work
Young Men’s Christian Association
Relief Leaders Laud Near East Aid Across Sectarian Lines
Morgenthau lauds the American relief effort in the Near East praising its sustained, apolitical aid to Turkish destitute Protestants Catholics Jews and Muslims alike. He notes Turkish officials pledge cooperation as relief mission continues under American Committee for Relief in the Near East led by John R. Mott and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Henry M. Morgenthau
American Committee
Near East
John R. Mott
United War Work
Cam
Needs in the Near East Aid Drive Calls for 30 Million
A leaflet from the American Committee for Relief in the Near East requests 30 million dollars to sustain 3,950,000 Christians and Jews through winter. It notes wartime aims, courage of Near Eastern nations, and relief efforts already organized by missionaries and the Red Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Committee For Relief In the
Near East
American Committee For Armenian and Syrian Relief
America
Red Cross
Relief Operations and Logistics in World Aid Efforts
The passage explains that all relief is provided as money credits due to transport difficulties for food or clothing. Distributors buy on the open market, with funds audited by American government representatives in Constantinople. Neutral consuls and Swiss distributors aid U S relief, and one hundred cents of every dollar funds relief.
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Asia Minor
Ottoman Empire
Constantinople
Charles F. Gates
Robert College
Central Relief Committee
Elief
Beirut
Aleppo
Trebizond
Mount Ararat
Pike’s Peak
New York City
Asia
America
Switzerland
United States
State Department
Palestine
Cairo
Jerusalem
Lower
Mesopotamia
Persia
Central and
Western
Urabia
Tabriz
Caldwell
Russian Caucasus
Mr. Smith
Bread for the pillow: boy’s hunger in Turkey hospital
An American observer recalls a starving Turkish boy who could not eat solid food and cried for bread. He refused food but wished to feel it near him by placing it under his pillow, illustrating famine’s quiet hunger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Turkey
Relief Effort for Near East Reaches Millions
The Syrian Relief and American committee coordinate aid across Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Armenia, Persia and Northern Egypt. Funds flow through the State Department with 3.95 million people needing food, 400 thousand orphans, at about 17 cents per person daily. The effort includes reconstruction, seeds, cattle and implements, aided by British and Swiss distributors and American missionaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
American Committee For
Red Cross
Near East
Asia Minor
Caucasus
Armenia
Persia
Egypt
Commission
Department of State
Shipping Board
Stovall
Berne
Switzerland
America
C. V. Vickrey
Wilson appeals for Armenian relief contributions
President Woodrow Wilson urges Americans to donate to Armenian and Syrian relief as estimates show increasing starvation and exposure this winter. He cites 400000 orphans and over 2 million destitute survivors and asks gifts via the American Red Cross or the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Asia
America
United States
American Red Cross
Washington, D. C
American Committee For
Cleveland H. Dodge
Madison Avenue
New York City
Woodrow Wilson
Tragic Crisis in Western Asia Appeals for Aid
The report outlines massive casualties among Armenians and Syrians in Turkey over three years due to massacre deportation and famine. Millions are homeless refugees and orphans with thousands starving daily in Syria and the Lebanon. Remittances via the State Department at three to five dollars per month support a child or mother.
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Palestine
Syria
Allenby
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Lebanon
State Department
Shushan Anoushian Appeals for Aid in Starving Armenian orphans
A letter from Shushan Anoushian describes famine behind refugee camps in the desert after the deaths of her parents. She and 400,000 other Armenian orphans face hunger, illness, and ruined homes while begging Americans for food and relief.
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Shushan
Usou
Sunday School Drive Aims for Two Million Dollar Fund
W C Pearce of the International Sunday School Association tours the continent for the Near East relief effort. He meets leaders in major cities to promote a continent wide visitation day and mobilize thousands of schools to contribute to a 2 million dollar fund. The War Council already reports 80 000 Sunday schools with 15 million enrollments pledged.
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W. C. Pearce
International Sunday School Association
American Committee For Relief In
Near East
Pearce
Sunday Schools of America
Sunday School War Council
Soldiers aid Armenian orphans in Mesopotamia relief effort
British army units in Mesopotamia rescued Armenian children orphaned by Turkish atrocities. Two boys Pat and David were carried by troops to safety and are slowly healing with the regiment. The article notes army ration discounts, new clothing orders, and planned sales of work by orphans to fund further relief while older girls seek work to support themselves and younger children attend school.
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Mesopotamia
Pat
David
Army Ration Department
Ordnance Department
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Russia
Willoughby Smith
Tiflis
Vladikavkaz
Samara
Vladivostok
Siberia
Harry Pratt Judson
University of Chicago
Persian Relief Commission
John Lawrence Caldwell
Gordon Paddock
Hamadan
Uramia
W. A. Shedd
Bagdad
Wilson
Teheran
Tabrid
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