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NEAR BASI*MrnumI)onEXPEDITION LEAVESRrturiF©fiA ummmArmyngA,rt-tdi*lDr. ..VtfUMGaorg* E. WUita Head* th«iParty of 250 or LaviathanWay to Aid Suffarara*It-Ifc«*le-ofeeinMANY SPECIALISTS ABOARDwoundmuch jeeipt 0*11 forIns ntlt;todyScientific Expert* Ifwludtdonly ronly * to brtnof Con vlce^tiWorker* OffWayTheo)r.:alsr-Ml*tieiyialth« firar'fpredlci The he waiintereslasre.monthi with a to reti threat* he geti27 ye*year*net w lettertlon, bcausedHeaded by Dr, George E. White, former President off Marsovan College in Armenia, the largest war relief expedition Which has left this port undlT the auspices of the Committee for Relief In the Near Blast sailed for Brest yesterdgy on the Leviathan. At the French port the party will rc-embarfc bn a British transport for Constantinople. The contingent included 250 persons. chiefly women, and has been preceded by equipment for fifteen hospitals, food, clothing, portable buildings, motor trucks, and other material. The on *total value of the supplies has beenplaced at $3,500,000.Before the i^ssrvlathan sailed Abram I.Elkus. former Ambassador to Turkey,report irfair w war.In thisaddressed the workers, pointing out the great need for food among the starving million* in the Near East. He urged the building up of the morale of Armenians **nd their kin. lest they falldo histhe ovThewho aisaid,wordterm Intenantmainis ov#everyticti’mjs to * dangerous social doctrines’’ Dr George K. White, who was drivenout of Turkey in 1»1« after eight professors of Marsovan College had been slain, said that an effort would be made to rescue from Turkish harems theyoung women members of the victimsfamilies. . . . . ___relief workers who*terday were Miss Elaine E. van IyfcK J sl daughter of Ivii Princeton, ^ — * -Henry van Dyke, formerly United States Minister to the Netherlands; four members of the Mennonlte Church; Missforleven yearn managed a \ irglniaGreen of Provliin _school for mountaineers; Miss Mary jtoip-trl-11-inttanrillhiseonIngbe aur-owridrtf-fecibleoftngac-Hubbard of Tarry town, N. Y., who speaks Armenian and is a teacher of defective children; Mr*. Frances King lleadlee of Spokane, a member or the State Welfare Commission of Washington; Miss Blanche A. Blackman. As-Director*General of the t tncin-■a.,. General Hospital, and Ihr. Stanley White, Secretary of the Presbyterian Foreign Missions Board. Walter GeorgeSmith, a Philadelphia attormey, representing the Roman Catholic ( hurch,will Join the expedition on a later ship.Among the hospital workers were five each sent by Smith College, WellesleyCollege, and the American M omen » Hospital I'nlt of the Near East Other worker* and specialists Included «0 Red Cross nurses. 7 laboratory assistantsand bacteriologists, 28 missionaries, 3agricultural experts. 10 Industrial relief workers. 5 kindergarten teacher*. !and 3 Journalist*. . tDr. lames L* Barton of Boston. C hatr-jnan (if the Committee for Relief In the tEaststantlftoplf, having none abroad£ _ lt;* .mb b. iat u l. tkweeks ago. With him are Dr. Georg.Boston Dr V H. TI•SarfyiS.oMain, President of Grinnell Collegethelu -ingJr-iaytorne,Iowa, and Arthur CurtItri Grinnell,I James. ... ,The missionaries, physicians, and relief workers upon their arrival in i on-stantinople will be sent to the following cities In Asia Minor. Armenia. Mesopotamia, Hyria. and the Caucasus: Smyrna, Brousa. Angora. Konla, I Caesarla. Tarsus. Marsovan. Ad arts, Maraah Alntah, Aleppo. Slvae. Erxerym. Treblsond, Der-el-Zor, Jerusalem. Bag- . dad. Mosul. I'rumla. Tabrii, Erivan, | Tiflis. Batum, Soubilak. Bitlis, Harpoot Mardin, trfa, and Van.iofty-omMmig-CHARGE AROUSES DANIELS.A- ’ jiS*...Refuse* to Comment on StatementCabinet Kept Sons Safe in War.enngHetomt *oc-Inioninnt-Ichm-mogettheterop,lanirkitiympitladSecretary of the Navy Joephu*Daniels, who spent the day in this city.refused yesterday to discus* the speech of Representative Royal Johnson of South Dakota, who said on Saturday in Congress; “It is very easy for me to understand the reason for the lack ofAhas aInterest in the doughboy, because, so faras I can find out, not one relative ofAnyone associated with the Administration was ever allowed to become one.** Secretary Daniels, who was seen yesterday at the Dean'* office at the Cathedral of SL John the Divine. haJd thathe had not read the speech or Representative Johnson. When he was told thatof attJto theat it uA* •pvtasthe Congressman had made the charge mat son* of Cabinet mefhbers had been kept away from posts of danger, hs threw- his hands in the air and turned angrily *on his heel. Then he calledback;he*' I haven't read the speebo uwouldn't say anything ahad.*’i*'1 .ii—*mis.-awOhihiv
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