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THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, FRIDAY, MARCH 25,1921 IERS IN RENEWAL OF RELIEF APPEALS lore Than 1,000 Business Leaders la This Vicinity Ask Continued Aid For Armenian Sufferers Inspired .by the appeals of Major general James G. Harbord, Persh- ty's chief of Staff in the World iyAtv â€"Gen*raf- Leonard Wood and irig.Gen. Charles G. Dawes, more ban 1000 of Chicago's biggest busi- ness men, bankers, officials of the fig industries and representatives of he professions have pledged them- Ives to the support of the Near East Uief in its great task of saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of tarving women and children in Ar- menia and other parts of the Near jjuist who are suffering not only from ant of food and clothing, but are till the victims of persecution by the \irks. â- â€ž •• The pledge took the form of a resolution passed at a luncheon given in honor of Gen. Harbord, who head- (1 a military commission sent by the United States government to investi- gate conditions in the Near East. This â- esolution reads: Pats Resolution "While we are weary of appeals, we arc conscious of the fact that the weariness of the helpless women and •biklren of the Near East vastly ex- :eeds our own; therefore: "Be it resolved that we heartily ap- iprtve the appeal of the Chicago Committee of Near East Relief for its share of the National budget of $15,- [000,000, which is $600,000; that we pledge to co-operate in making an appeal to the employers in the trades and the leaders in the various pro- fessional groups for $200,000; and that we secure as much in addition as possible by securing permission for the members and representatives of the Chicago Committee of Near. East Relief to present the cause to the employes in the various trades and industries." , Paints VMd Picture Gen. Harbord painted a vivid pic- ture of the suffering of these people, especially in Armenia. There are 250,000 Christian girls, many of re- tirement and culture, still imprisoned in Moslem harems. They are brand- ed with hideous tatoo marks to pre- vent their escape. The Moslems also hold in captivity 60,000 orphans. No infants have survived in the last six years. Hundreds of thousands of families have been separated. Ifln dustry and agriculture are practically a: a standstill. There is so little food, according to Gen. Harbord, that the people eat grass and dig up worms a-nd beetles out of the ground. "The Armenian people would have long since perished," said Gen. Har- bord. "if it had not been for the Near East Relief. Indeed, if American aid were withdrawn today, they could hardly survive a week. The Near East Relief maintains 229 orphanages and is caring for 110,000 children. It maintains 63 hospitals and is giving food to 561,900 people. Last December there were 12,000 Greek refugees in Batum, 100,000 Armenians, mostly women and children fleeing toward fatum before the advancing Turks, stantinople and probably 350,000 refugee Armenians from Turkey still in Armenia. 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