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PUNCH, o n T ill ', LONDON CHAIUVA1U.—.Tanvary .11, 10 >:i.

THE TRAGEDY OF GREECE.inity . " WHO W IL L H E L P MU TO SAVE T H E SE '

Hn Urgent HppealIt is im pera tive th a t the English public, never slow to help w here the need is

understood , should h av e a fuller know ledge of the u n speakab le sufferings of the Greek refugees, num bering a t least a million, m ain ly w om en a n d children, w ho have b een driven ou t from S m yrna, or h av e fled from C onstan tinople a n d E astern T hrace , an d are n o w on the m ain land or the islands of G reece, homeless an d destitute an d dying. M a n y thousands h ave a lready d ied ; a n d for the living, to the pa in s of huijger a n d exposure— m ost of them h av e only the sum m er clothing in which they e sc ap e d are now a d d e d the horrors of epidem ic disease. In consequence of this ou tb reak a n d because a n y additional d e m a n d for food a n d shelter is bey o n d its pow er to satisfy, the G re e k G overnm en t h a s forb idden the landing of further refugees unless som e foreign organisation will agree to assum e the responsibility of caring for them .

T h e Im perial W a r Relief F und, in conjunction with the S av e the Children Fund a n d the F riends’ Relief Com m ittee, is m ak ing an “ All-British A p p e a l for the N ear E ast.” T h e se A ssocia tions are a t present feeding tw en ty thousand children an d fifteen tho u san d adults in A thens, the Piraeus, S alonika a n d elsewhere, under a staff of Englishmen. But they a re in d espera te need of m ore m oney for dealing w ith these appalling conditions.

It ought to b e impossible th a t a n y b lam e which m ay b e laid upon the fatal am bitions of a former G reek G overnm ent should be allow ed to w e ak en the force of this appeal. Indeed , if it is true th a t our late M inistry encouraged these ambitions, then, how ever little approval of such a policy m a y h ave been show n by the public, this constitutes a m oral claim upon us for the relief of these innocent victims. For the rest, it is a pure m atter of hum anity, into which no question of politics or the ascription of b lam e should b e suffered to enter. T o quote the w ords of L ord R o b e r t C e c il , President of the Executive Council of the Im perial W a r Relief F und , “ It is the stark ap p e a l, from a d ep th of hopelessness a n d suffering well-nigh impossible to envisage, of o n e fellow-being to another."

O ur susceptibilities, as the ap p e a l points out, m ay h ave b een b lunted b y the ^ m ass figures of the G reat W ar, a n d w e need to use a little im agination if w e w ould

picture individual distress ; the misery of little children searching for the m others they h av e lost ; the desolation of m others w h o h av e to w a tc h their little children die.

T h e tragedy grow s swiftly, a n d our help, if it is no t also swift, will for m an y thousands com e too late. W e place full confidence in the sy m p ath y a n d understand ing of our readers.

G ifts o f m o n e y sh ou ld be addressed to th e H o n . T reasu rer o f th e A ll-B rit ish A p pea l fo r th e N e a r East, G en er a l Buildings, A ld w y e h , W .CÎ2, and g ifts o f e lo lh e s to c / o P ick fords and H a y ’s W h a rf S hipping and F or w a rd ing C o ., N e w H ibern ia W harf, L o n d o n Bridge, S .E . l

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G e n e r a l B u il d in g s ,

A l d w y c h , L o n d o n , W.C.2

8th February 1923.

Dear Sir,

At the suggestion of Mr. Philip Baker I am to-day sending you under separate cover 50 copies of our Punch cartoon leaflet as per enclosed specimen, in the hope that you may be able to pass these on to the League of Nations offices in Athens and elsewhere.

Yours faithfully,

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Secretary.

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(Incorporated with The Imperial War Relief Fund).

Chairman J. GEORGE ADAM I, Esq., c.b.i ., M.D., K.RJ.

( • X . ■ \•S Hon. Secretary :

Miss J. C. ELLISON.

FENWICK STREET WEST,

LIVERPOOL,

June, 1923.

D ear Sir or

Major-General Franks, who, until recently, was President of an Allied Commission at Constantinople, has given us eloquent proof, if such were necessary, of the great need for helping in the work of relieving the terrible sufferings of the refugees who were driven from their homes in

Asia Minor last September.

Following the burning of Smyrna, over one million of these unfortunate people, mostly women, children, and old men, fled panic-stricken to Greece under conditions of indescribable misery.The Greek Government with its limited resources, has done its utmost to shoulder this additional burden, and is now endeavouring to raise a loan as the only means to cope adequately with this

enormous influx of destitute people.

But until this can be done, outside help is indispensable if the lives of thousands now depending on the various relief societies are to be saved. The British organisations are feeding and clothing •!.40,000, and arc financing the disinfecting and clearing camp at Constantinople. This latter work, I conducted by the League of Nations, has already reduced the death rate from typhus and other diseases II by one-half, and its continuance, for which funds are urgently needed, is of the utmost importance to II deal with the further 80,000 refugees it is expected will pass through during the next few months. II

We beg you to give what you can spare to help this work of common humanity. These people are the victims of war, and are in no way responsible for their pitiable condition.

One refugee can be fed for i j d a day, and help may come to many thousands if thig city is

aroused to the need in time.

Contributions should be sent to Sir James Hope S impson, Bank of L iverpool, Water Street.

Yours faithfully,

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Col.J.Procter, C.B.E. . -vHigh Commissariat for Refugees.League of Nations. ’ .GENEVA. 1

My dear Procter,

d July 1923

Golden has given me this morning thecopy of your report, which I am now busy summarising.

Please do try and have another complete copy sent to me, as he will want his back after I havedone with it and I should very much like to have one

Yours sincerely,

Secretary.

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th July 1923.

The Secretary toThe High Commissioner for Refugees, League of Hâtions,Geneva.

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your letter of the 12th instant. The envelope containing Col. Procter's report on the proposed loan for the Greek refugee settlement has duly arrived but contains only the annexes to this Report. The first part, outlining the recommendations and conclusion are missing. It is especially these that I wish to have.

Yours faithfully,

G€a-«-)l2 ~Aa. kAXjl k ,

Secretary.

Hear S i r ,

I am asked by the A s s i s t a n t High Commissioner

t o acknowledge your l e t t e r o f 1 6 th J u ly and to say how

maoh he r e g r e t s t h a t you have n o t y e t re c e iv e d the

r e p o r t s o f Colonel P r o c to r on th e Greek re fu g e e scheme.

The documents were enclo sed in two packages

a s be ing too w eigh ty f o r one and e n q u i r i e s a r e be ing

made a s to what has occurred t o d e la y the d i s p a t c h o f

th e second. Meanwhile I have forwarded im m ediate ly

two f u r t h e r c o p ie s o f the r e p o r t f o r your immediate

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p . p . A s s i s t a n t High Commissioner f o r R efugees .

G era ld M i l le r , E s q . , Im p e ria l War b e l i e f fu n d , G eneral B u i ld in g s ,A1IMÏGH, London, W.C.fc.

Reprinted from Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury, June 13tli, 102.1

G reek Refugees

Victim s of Starvation and Disease

APPEAL TO LIVERPOOL

T he d is tre ssfu l p lig h t of th e Greek refugees from Asia M inor was yesterday b roug h t before the public of Liverpool by way of an appeal for donations to the N ear E as t Refugee Fu nd . A t a n a fte r noon m eeting in th e Town H a l l , u nd e r th e presidency of th e Lord Mayor, a description was given of th e s ta te of destitu t ion , sta rvatio n , and disease of a bo u t a million and a q u a r te r of people who fled from th e vengeance of th e T urks, and subsc rip tions were announced to the a m ou n t of a b o u t £450.

The Lord Mayor explained that lie had called the meeting a t the request of some well-known Liverpool gentlemen, including the Vice-Chancellor of the University and members of the City Council.

REASONS FOR H EL PI NG G RE E KS

Major-General G. M. Franks, late presiden t of an Allied Commission in Constantinople, and who commanded Lancashire artillery in the war, in sta ting the case for the refugees from Anatolia and Thrace, said th a t Greece with its population of five millions had had dumped down upon her a million and a quarter destitu te people. The tosk of caring for them was too great for such a little country, and although the Americans were a t present feeding 470,000 of them, they were dying like flics of

L starvation and disease. There was danger of typhus and smallpox spreading westward. On one ship alone 800 people died of typhus. The British colony in Athens was doing its best to organise relief, and many of our people out there were playing the part of real heroes, by daily facing death in the fever-stricken camp. There were three main reasons why we should help the Greeks : (I) I t would assist in re-establishing trade and industry, to our material gain ; (2) the Greeks were our allies in the war, and were extra ordinarily loyal to England ; and (3) simple humanity forbade Christian England to look on without giving all the help she

C°Sir Alfred Paton, Mr. Pallis, and others spoke in support of the appeal. It was announced that a local committee Imd been formed with Dr. Adami as chairman. Sir Alfred Paton as vice-chairman, and Sir J . Hope Simpson (Bank of Liverpool) as lion, treasurer. The following donations have been received Mr. and Mrs. Pallis .£105; Mr. and Mrs. Calvocoressi, £10.5; Mr. and Mrs. Vlasto £100; Mr. Mazarchi £50 ; Mr. J . Choremi .£50; and Sir Alfred Paton £50.

BR IT AI N’S RESPONSIBILITY.

A larger audience, assembled in the evening in the Picton Hall, listened to a more graphic presentation of the appeal by speech and pic tures. I)r. Adami presided, and in introducing the principal speakers, Professor Arnold Toynbee and Major- General Franks, spoke highly of the work of the various relief agencies in the Near

East, and earnestly commended the cause of humanity to the citizens o f Liverpool.

Professor Toynbee, who has recently returned from Constantinople and neighbouring centres, devoted his observations to answering the tivo questions:— “ Arc these people, Greeks and Turks, deserving of help? ” and “ W hy should we help them in view of the many claims nearer home? ” H e said tha t th roughout the Near East he had found many good qualities and many links of human friendship. Antagonism and atrocities were abnormal things. The people who planned atrocities were few in number and almost always escaped with the ir wealth to the pleasant resorts of Europe. The sufferers, particularly the women and children, hod no say in the matter. The only way we could bring these people to better tilings was by charity, and not by recrimination or reprisals (hear, hear). As to whether the British people ought to help, he mentioned the assistance given by the Americans, who had no political concern with that part of the world, and said tha t one honourable form of international rivalry was rivalry in doing good. Great Britain for c en turies liad a N ea r E as te rn policy in her own interest . T hat policy Imd seriously affected the fortunes of these people, and he submitted tha t nationally and individually the British people hud a definite obligation in the matter (applause).

Major-General Franks s[>okc in detail ot the needs of the refugees of various nationalities, and said tha t last year the Imperial Relief Fund, which was responsible for the appeal, collected for its various purposes about £225,000 in money, and of th is sum only 6 per cent, had been spent on administration. By way of emphasising the present appeal, the speaker afterwards exhibited some lantern slides made from photographs by him in the Smyrna district showing the causes which compelled people to leave their homes a t five minutes’ notice, followed by a film showing the great, hurried exodus from Anatolia and Eastern Thrace. The story told by the pic tures was one of appalling tragedy and made u deep impression on the spectators.

VICTIMS OF WAR.

The Liverpool Committee has issued a circular le tter stating the salient facts of the position, and invit ing citizens to give what they cun spare to help this work of common humanity. The refugees, it is pointed out, 40,000 of whom are now being fed and clothed by British organisations, are the victims of war, and are in no way responsible for their pitiable condition. One refugee, it is added, cun be fed for JJd a day, and help may come to thousands if th is city is aroused to the need in time. The letter is signed by the Lord Mayor, the Bishop of Liverpool, the Archbishop of Liverpool, the Rev. T . R. Dann, Sir Norman Ilill , Dr. Adami, Sir Benjamin Johnson, Miss Mubel Fletcher, Mr. Herbert ltuthbone, and Alderman U tting.

A Reconstructive Relief SchemeA National Appeal for the Near East Refugees

Sir,S ince th e appea l for th e N ea r E as t w as launched from th e M ansion H ouse

in O ctober last, it has b een possib le to envisage th e relief p roblem of th e N ear

such m agnitude is b y th e undertak ing of relief w ork on a reconstructive basis.A n opportunity for such w ork is now offered b y th e R efugee Settlem ent

Schem e which h as been o rganised b y G il. P rocter, th e D epu ty H igh C om m issioner of the League of N ations. A district of land h as been allotted in G reece to som e 10,000 refugees b y the G reek G overnm ent, w ho have supplied such building m aterials, agricultural im plem ents, tools, etc., a s will enab le th e refugees to build their ow n villages and settle perm anen tly on th e land . Food supplies which will la s t till the beginning of A pril a re a lready in hand, bu t th e interval be tw een tha t d a te and th e gathering of their harvest is unprovided for.

T h e H igh C om m issariat of th e L eague of N ations, realising the im portance of the se ttlem ent of the rural populations a s a necessary prelim inary to th e w hole problem of assisting th e refugees, has requested th e assis tance of the British relief organisations to com plete and ex tend this w ork of perm anen t relief. T h e G reek G overnm ent has given assurance of the supp ly of those essen tia ls w hich will enab le th e refugees in this area to becom e self-supporting after th e harvest is gathered ; th e Relief Societies associated in the All-British A ppea l, w ho are a lready feeding 35,000 refugees in o ther p arts of Greece, have agreed to provide the necessary food w hich will b e distributed under British supervision ; and , in view of th e serious position w hich has been c reated by the ou tbreak of epidemics, th e British R ed Cross Society, who are a lso giving m edical relief and assistance in o ther districts, have consented to tak e over a n d enlarge th e hospital established by L ad y R um bold , and to adm inister m edical relief over the w hole of this area.

W hile w e appreciate th e very m any calls upon th e public purse a t the p resen t time, w e cannot refrain from draw ing th e atten tion of th e subscribing public to th e fact th a t here is a schem e which will appea l no t on ly to their com m on hum anity, bu t w ill contribute to th e stabilisation of econom ic conditions in the N ea r E as t w hich is so necessary to th e peace a n d prosperity of all Europe.

W e would, therefore, b ring this appeal to the serious consideration of the British people. W e feel sure tha t they will once m ore generously respond, an d thus help to preven t the continuation of th e p resen t conditions in the N ear E as t w hich m ay otherw ise resu lt in w idespread disaster. . . .

E dward C. Moore (Lord Mayor of H ubert G ouch (Chairman, Imperial W ar G. N orfolk London! R,

E aste rn refugees m ore clearly a s a whole, a n d it has becom e increasingly obvious th a t th e effective m eans of dealing perm anen tly w ith a problem of

W e are, Sir,Y ours faithfully,

A. Bonar L aw R andall Cantuar Cosmo E bor

John Smith (Moderator, Church of Scotland) Fred C. S p u rr (President, Free Church

G. N orfolk S alisbury R obert C ecilH . H . A squith D. L loyd G eorge

P ercy Â lden (Vice-Chairman, Save the Children Fund)

A rthur Stanley (Chairman, British Red Cross Society)

Relief Fund)

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Dr.Fridtjof Nansen, 18th September 1923•League of Nations.Geneva.

Dear Dr.Nansen,

I have much pleasure in sending you herewith a copy of the Report of the Imperial War Relief Fund, which has just been Issued.

I think you will be interested and satisfied with the work which we have been able to accomplish in the field of relief during the past three years.

Yours sincerely,

Secretary.

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RE PORT192 0 to 1923

LONDON : GENERAL BUILDINGS, ALDWYCH, W C.2

GENERAL FUND. •

Friends* Relief Committee.

Payments amounting to £14,057 were paid to the Friends’ Relief Committee for their relief work in Central Europe.

Snve the Children Fund.

During the period under review the sum of £26,642 19s. id. was paid to this Society for, their child relief in various parts o f Europe.

Armenian Refugees.

Relief in this direction has taken the form of support of the Armenian Refugees’ (Lord Mayor’s) Fund, to whom payments have been made totalling £1,021 9s. 6d.

League of Red Cross Societies.

An appeal was made by the Fund in 1920 in connection with the anti-typhus campaign of that organisation, with the result that £15,949 7s- 6d. was paid to them, and certain other money allocated under their advice. A grant of £10,000 was also made to this organisation by the City Committee.

Baltic Provinces.

In 1920 a grant of £200 was made to the Baltic Red Cross. Grants to the total amount o f £1,250 have also been made to Lady Muriel Paget’s child-welfare mission for use in Latvia, Lithuania, and Esthonia.

Stores to the value of £1,450 6s. 6d., purchased with donations received from Lady Forster's Australian Fund for Stricken Europe, were also given to this mission.

Poland.

A grant of stores to the value of £1,219 6s. 3d. was made in 1922 to the British Committee for Relief in Poland. The stores were purchased out of donations from Lady Forster’s Fund.

Russian Refugees.

During 1921 and 1922 payments amounting to £10,000 were made to the British Committee o f the Russian Red Cross in Great Britain (old organisation) for the relief of Russian Refugees, and stores to the value of £4,515 5s. 7d., purchased with donations received from Lady Forster's Australian Fund for Stricken Europe,

^ v e r e given to Lady Rumbold and Col. Procter for the relief of the Russian Refugees in Constantinople.

In addition a part of the Government grant referred to above, valued at £20,000, was also utilised for the relief of the Russian Refugees in that city.

Universities Relief.

The appeal to the Universities of the United Kingdom for the relief of professors and students in the Universities of Central Europe and Russia has been made by a separate Committee known as the Universities Committee, which has worked in conjunction with the European Student Relief Movement of the World’s Student Christian Federation.

The Council has paid over to that Committee during the period under review:—

For Central Europe £11,086 7s. ud .For Russia ...................................... £21,175 "*• 8d.

Stores to the value of £5,287 4s. gd., purchased with donations received from Lady Forster’s Australian Fund for Stricken Europe, were also granted for their work in Russia.

British Subjects in Russia.

Grants have been made from time to time towards the relief of destitute British subjects in Pctrograd to Mrs. Violet Froom, who has for some time devoted herself to this work with the approval of the British Government. A further grant of £600 has recently been made for the establishment of a home for a number of these people.

British Subjects in Smyrna.

Grants amounting to £100 have been made to the Acting Consul General in Smyrna, for the relief of the destitute British subjects who remained in that city after the great fire and the consequent evacuation of the British Colony.

RUSSIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND.In the Autumn of 1921 an appeal for the famine-stricken in

Russia was launched under the name of the Russian Famine Relief Fund and the major part conducted under the chairmanship of Lord Emmott. As a result of this appeal, committees were rapidly formed all over the United Kingdom and funds were opened by them and in the Press. Amongst these must be specially mentioned the Manchester Fund, which so well supplemented the efforts already made by the “ Manchester Guardian ” in support of Dr. Nansen’s relief organisation, that over £100,000 was raised in that city and district. An amount approximating to £40,000 was received from the Glasgow and Edinburgh Committees in response to this appeal.

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PATRON HIS MAJESTY THE KING

THE COUNCIL

Président - - The Rt. Hon. Lord Robert Cecil, K.C., M.P.Chairman "General Sir Hubert Gough, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.V.O. Vice-Chairman "Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice, K.C.M.G., Hot. Treasurer and Chairman o f Executive Committee C.B.

"Sir Maurice Bonham Carter, K.C.B., K.C.V.O. Percy Alden, Esq.

*J. B. Atkins, Esq.The Hon. Cecil Baring

"H. N. Brailsford, Esq.The Rt. Hon. Lord Richard Cavendish, C.B., C.M.G. Brig.-Gen. H. B. Champain, C.M.G.

"Mrs. Creighton °Major-Gcn. G. M. Franks, C.B.•Miss A. Ruth Fry Dr. Haden Guest, M.C.

•Sir Harry H. Lamb, K.C.M.G."The Hon. F. O. Lindley, C.B.Lady MalcolmH. W. Massincham, Esq.J. E. Mills, Esq.Sir George Paish

"Sir E. Denison Ross, C.I.E.‘Rear-Admiral Aubrey C. H. Smith, C.B.•Owen Hugh Smith, Esq.The Hon. Sir Arthur Stanley, G.B.E., C.B.

•H. D. Watson, Esq., C.I.E.Col. J. G Wedgwood, D.S.O., M.P.E. F. W ise, Esq., C.B.Canon C. S. Woodward

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Registered Office - General Buildings, Aldwych, London, W.C.2

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(to combat disease and distress in the war- stricken areas of Europe and Asia)

During the three years under survey, from August, 1920 to August 31st, 1923, the Imperial War Relief Fund has received the total sum of £457,811 16s. lod. in cash, to which must be added gifts in kind including grants of Government stores, etc., to the value of £305,029 3s. nd.

The cash donations were composed as follows :—

General Funds .. . . . . 119^76 o 1Russian Appeal (Russian Famine Relief Fund) 293,245 6 2Near East Refugees Appeal .. . . . . 45,090 10 7

Of the total cash donations, the British Dominions and Colonies subscribed £78,306 2s. lid., of which the principal amounts were £10,987 15s. 6d. from Australia, £45,988 14s. 4d. from Canada, and £13,645 19s. id, from New Zealand, the bulk of the latter.imount being paid over to the Save the Children Fund for their kitchens in Russia. In addition, stores to the value of £29,022 1 is. gd. were purchased in London with donations received from Lady Forster’s Australian Fund for Stricken Europe.

A grant of Stores to the value of £100,000, made by His Majesty’s Government in 1921, was handed over to the Disposals Committee of the Russian Famine Relief Fund, and in the same year the Australian Government gave frozen meat to the value of £50,000 for the relief of the Russian Famine.

In addition to the work of the Main Committee, the sum of £ I2>727 7s- >°d. was raised by the City Committee, under the Chairmanship o f the Lord Mayor of London, to which must be added gifts in kind received by that Committee to the value of £837 10s.

I t will be seen, therefore, that the work of the Fund falls under three main heads, according to the donors’ allocation of their subscriptions. These heads arc General, Russian Famine, and Near East Refugees Appeals, the two latter of which have constituted the more important of its activities. In the following sections the principal allocations of its funds under these heads will be shown.

GENERAL FUND. f"

Friends' Relict Committee.

Payments amounting to £14,057 were paid to the Friends’ Relief Committee for their relief work in Central Europe.

Save the Children Fund.

During the period under review the sum of £16,642 19s. id. was paid to this Society for, their child relief in various parts of Europe.

Armenian Refugees.

Relief in this direction has taken the form of support o f the Armenian Refugees’ (Lord Mayor’s) Fund, to whom payments have been made totalling £1,025 9s. 6d.

League of Red Cross Societies.

An appeal was made by the Fund in 1920 in connection with the anti-typhus campaign of that organisation, with the result that £>5,949 ?s. 6d. was paid to them, and certain other money allocated under their advice. A grant of £10,000 was also made to this organisation by the City Committee.

Baltic Provinces.

In 1920 a grant of £200 was made to the Baltic Red Cross. Grants to the total amount of £1,250 have also been made to Lady Muriel Paget’s child-welfarc mission for use in Latvia, Lithuania, ana Esthonia.

Stores to the value of £1,450 6s. 6d., purchased with donations received from Lady Forster’s Australian Fund for Stricken Europe, were also given to this mission.

Poland.

A grant of stores to the value of £1,219 6s. 3d. was made in 1922 to the British Committee for Relief in Poland. The stores were purchased out o f donations from Lady Forster’s Fund.

Russian Refugees.

During 1921 and 1922 payments amounting to £10,000 were made to the British Committee of the Russian Red Cross in Great Britain (old organisation) for the relief of Russian Refugees, and stores to the value of £4,515 3s. 7d., purchased with donations received from Lady Forster’s Australian Fund for Stricken Europe,

^ftvere given to Lady Rumbold and Col. Procter for the relief o f the Russian Refugees in Constantinople.

In addition a part o f the Government grant referred to above, valued at £20,000, was also utilised for the relief o f the Russian Refugees in that city.

Universities Relief.

The appeal to the Universities o f the United Kingdom for the relief of professors and students in the Universities of Central Europe and Russia has been made by a separate Committee known as the Universities Committee, which has worked in conjunction with the European Student Relief Movement of the World’s Student Christian Federation.

The Council has paid over to that Committee during the period under review :—

For Central Europe . . £11,086 7s. n d .For Russia .......................................... £21,173 " s- *d.

Stores to the value of £3,287 4s. 9d., purchased with donations received from Lady Forster’s Australian Fund for Stricken Europe, were also granted for their work in Russia.

British Subjects in Russia.

Grants have been made from time to time towards the relief of destitute British subjects in Petrograd to Mrs. Violet Froom, who has for some time devoted herself to this work with the approval of the British Government. A further grant of £600 has recently been made for the establishment of a home for a number of these people.

British Subjects in Smyrna.

Grants amounting to £100 have been made to the Acting Consul General in Smyrna, for the relief of the destitute British subjects who remained in that city after the great fire and the consequent evacuation of the British Colony.

RUSSIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND.In the Autumn of 1921 an appeal for the famine-stricken in

Russia was launched under the name of the Russian Famine Relief Fund and the major part conducted under the chairmanship of Lord Emmott. As a result of this appeal, committees were rapidly formed all over the United Kingdom and funds were opened by them and in the Press. Amongst these must be specially mentioned the Manchester Fund, which so well supplemented the efforts already made by the " Manchester Guardian ” in support of Dr. Nansen’s relief organisation, that over £100,000 was raised in that city and district. An amount approximating to £40,000 was received from the Glasgow and Edinburgh Committees in response to this appeal.

In .he firs, instance, -he funds so " j ^ through Dr. Nansen and by the Friends Relief Ç ^ . t t e c S umt Buzuluk, in .he province nf Samara since they had been t t t e t o organise relief quickly owing to their having wor . ^ ispot ; and a Disposals Committee was set up for the purchase and shipment o f supplies.

In |anuarv of 19». Sir Benjamin Robertson ^ C S . I . the lndian Famine Expert, visited Russia at the request - 'f 'h e lund and with the consent of I lis Majesty's Government and n pcetedlthe wo k at Buzuluk as well as the relief being carried on b> the Sax c Children Fund in the province of Saratov. The report which he ™ dc " n ™ return was entirely satisfactory. He stated that the work ot he British Societies in'.lie field was eflicien.lv and economically carried out, and that the supplies sen, ,0 Russia reached .he famine arc,„ the loss by pilferage amounting to less than one quarter of one per cen .

As a result of his recommendations, the three British Relief Societies .hen appealing for Russia (the Russian Famine Relief Fund fhe Save t h e Œ e n f L | , and the Friends’ Relief C om m ,,^agreed ,0 co-operate in ,he All-Dri,ish Appeal, in order » avoid competition in appeal and overlapping in the administration o f relief, and to place their work under his general direction, l'nder ' ^ arrangement the Save the Children Fund undertook to administer adult ratio area on behalf of the Russian Famine Relief Fund, that fund contributing a proportion of their expenses in that connection.

In addition, therefore, to the assistance given ,0 the Friends’ Relief Committee, whose unit was feeding in Juncr* >9“ 1“ maximum of 257,000 souls in Russia, the fund was directly responsible for the feeding at one time of 2,7,000 adults in the Saratov district where the funds subscribed provided the enormous number of 16,361,489 actual rations. In addition to this a grant of stores valued a (26,759 3S. 6d., originally purchased for adult feeding and found unnecessary for this purpose after the harvest of 1922, was made to the Save the Children Fund for child feeding.

In February of 1922, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, at the request of the British Societies, made a tour of a number o f cities in the I mtcd Kingdom, whereby the appeal was greatly stimulated.

The thanks of the Council arc also due to the Editor of “ Punch,” by whose courtesy a cartoon and appeal appeared in that paper.

The very greatest gratitude of the Fund is due to Mr. Laurence Webster, the chief administrator of the Save the Children Fund, and to Mr. Arthur Watts, of the Friends’ Relief Committee, for the most able manner in which they undertook and organised the work of relict in Russia. When it is realised that the Saratov area was two-thirds the

X, size of England and Wales, and the Buzuluk area the size of Lancashire and Yorkshire combined, it will be appreciated what immense care and labour this work has entailed.

ic various bodies under this head aiA The principal payments summarised as follows :—

£ d.

69,073 18 466,395 9 i

Dr. Nansen’s Organisation . . 18,497 o oUniversities'Committee 21,173 11 *

In addition to these payments, the balance of the grant of Government stores, approximating ,0 £80,000, and the gift of frozen meat (£50,000) from the Australian Government, were shipped to Russia by the Disposals Committee.

Stores to the value of £18,550 10s. 8d., purchased with donations received from Lady Forster’s Australian Fund for Stricken Europe, were also shipped to Russia.

The work of the Save the Children Fund there has now been completely liquidated, and their staff withdrawn.

The Friends’ Relief Committee have also discontinued famine relief, and arc confining their activities to orphan relief and agricultural and medical reconstruction work on a small scale.

In these circumstances the Russian Famine Relief Fund is now closed, but the Imperial War Relief Fund will be glad at any time to receive and pass on donations for the Friends’ present activities in

NEAR EAST REFUGEES FUND.

n the Autumn of 1922, while the situation in Russia was still an us one, the civilised world was appalled by the calamity which hadovertaken ,he Christian population of Asia Minor, consequent on the retreat of the Greek forces and the burning of Smyrna. A terror- stricken horde of over a million starving and destitute refugees had poured on to the shores of Greece and the islands of the Ægean.

The assistance afforded to these sufferers by the Greek Government, whose finances were crippled by ten years of war and now by a military disaster, were in no way adequate to deal with this huge problem, and the appeal was one which the Imperial War Relief Fund could not ignore in spite of it;

An appeal had already been made by the Save the Children F u n * i it was decided, under strong pressure from Mis Majesty'»

All-British Anneal for this new distress." by the Lord Mayor of

iort of all the leaders of

Government, to initiate........................ , ,This was launched from the Mansion House by the - London on the 10th of October, with the support of all religious and political thought. In the following February a Nationa Appeal for the work of the All-British AppcaUnd ofthe BridshRed Cross Society in the Near East * "influential person!

. ...cr the names of the i influential persons m the country. A powerful appeal was also made to the Church of England by the Archbishop of Canterbury in his address to Convocation. Once again “ Punch gave its support by a cartoon and appeal, as a direct result o f which the Fund received a sum of over £5,000.

While the Friends’ Relief Committee felt themselves unable, owing to their other commitments in Europe, to take an active part in the work of relief in Greece, it was arranged that the funds collected by he Imperial War Relief Fund in this appeal should be administered by the Save the Children Fund in the feeding of adults, as had been done in

Kitchens were immediately opened in twenty-three centres in Greece and the neighbouring islands, and by the end of 1922 the Imperial War Relief Fund was feeding in this way 15,000 adults. 1 his number it was found necessary to cut down later to 8,000, when the feeding in Western Thrace was undertaken.

For this purpose, and for the purpose of feeding adults andchildren in other areas mentioned below, the sum of £13,430 5s. nd .has so far been paid to the Save the Children Fund.

The sum o f £9,000 was also paid to the All-British Appeal in

The balance in hand is being devoted to the continuance of the present feeding programme, the great necessity for which is stressed in the concluding remarks under this section.

Western Thrace Settlement Scheme.

The National Appeal issued in February laid special stress on the reconstructive settlement scheme which had been organised in Western Thrace by Col. J. Procter, the Deputy Fligh Commissioner for Refugees of the League of Nations. Under this scheme, arrangements were made, in conjunction with the Greek Government, for the settlement on the land of a number of agriculturalist refugees from Asia Minor and Eastern Thrace. These were housed in tents on the sites of their future villages. The Greek Government supplied ploughs for breaking up the land, seed for the crops, fodder for the cattle, and material for building the villages. At the request of Col. Procter, the All-British Appeal undertook the feeding of these

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^refugees until the harvest. Mere again the Save the Children Fund "prov ided for the children, and fed the adults on behalf of the Imperial

War Relief Fund, who were responsible for 4,600. A grant of £ 1,000 was also made to the League of Nations for the purchase of tents for these refugees. About 5,000 in all will be self-supporting in September, but there remain still some 4,000 in this area who will need

Constantinople Refugees.

In March, 1923, the Imperial War Relief Fund was approa Mr. Lawford Childs, the League of Nations representative in Constan nople, for assistance in regard to the 20,000 Greek refugees in that city who, housed under appalling conditions, were dying of disease at the rate of more than a thousand a week. As a result, the Imperial War Relief Fund, in consuita':on with the All-British Appeal, made a grant with which the League were able to take over the San Stephano Camp. This camp housed at first 2,650 refugees, but owing to the liquidation into it of smaller and insanitary camps this number rose to 4,543 by the end of June. Conditions were improved so rapidly that where in March there had been a death rate of eight or nine a day, by the end of April the rate had fallen to two or three.

The cost of this work to the Fund was £1,250, and in addition a grant of clothing valued at £700. Its success has been entirely due to the devotion and energy of Mr. Childs and his assistants.

There is no doubt that this prompt action prevented a disastrous epidemic in Constantinople. There was no machinery and no funds, either Greek or Turkish, for dealing with the avalanche of refugees. The Greek doctors, who were nobly endeavouring to stem the tide of disease and death, were dying in the attempt. Touching on this wider aspect, General Sir Charles Flarington wrote to Mr. Childs, “ It seemed as if nothing could save us from an epidemic. I was very anxiousfor the safety of the forces under my command. Only those who live here can realise the danger o f an epidemic to which we have been exposed. To those who have worked to avoid it I express my deep

On the conclusion of peace with Turkey, representations were made to the Greek Government for the removal of these refugees to Greece. As a result the whole number of some 17,000 arc now being taken away. Of this number, the All-British Appeal has undertaken to support for as long as possible the 4,000 from San Stéphane 'rL are being removed to Western Thrace where it is sincerelv he British generosity, having saved their lives, will c through the winter.

British Refugees from Smyrna.

The destruction of Smyrna caused the eva< colony there, which numbered some 3,000 Bri

unfortunate people were transported to Malta, Cyprus and Mitylcnc^^ without possessions of any kind, a few even reaching England, where some arrived wearing newspapers instead of underclothes. The bulk of these refugees were in a small way of business, and had already been living from hand to mouth as a result of their losses during the

In the winter of 1922, the All-British Appeal was approached by the British Refugees from Smyrna Relief Committee, on whose behalf ii was decided by the Imperial War Relief Fund to make a special appeal. As a result of that appeal the sum of £5,762 2s. 2d. was paid to that Committee, and used principally to relieve the distress o f those refugees who had reached England.

Out of this sum, grants amounting to £600 were made to the British Refugees in Malta and Cyprus who, although they were receiving a subsistence allowance from the British Government, were sadly in need of clothing.

An amount o f £60 was later especially subscribed for the education of the British refugee children in Malta.

Clothing to the value of £238 was also shipped to the British refugees in Malta and Cyprus.

British Relief Committee in Athens.

When the refugees began to pour into Athens and the Pirxus, the British residents in Athens immediately formed a committee for their relief, under the presidency of the British Minister. This committee began to feed a number of refugees in the Stringos camp, which was eventually taken over by the All-British Appeal.

In addition to a grant previously made by the All-British Appeal, the Imperial War Relief Fund has recently granted the further sum of £1,000 to this Committee for the purpose of liquidating their commitments and settling the refugees originally under their care into productive employment.

vX certain amount of the clothing sent to Athens was also distributed to this Committee.

Anglo-American Relief Committee, Salonica.

Payments amounting to £215 js. tod. have been made to this Committee, for the purpose of buying tools and seeds for their agriculturalist refugees.

Clothing Appeal.

At the end of 1922, appeals were made by Dr. Nansen, the High Commissioner for Refugees of the League of Nations, and by the All- British Appeal, for gifts o f second-hand clothing for the refugees.

« The response to these appeals has so far been the receipt by the . nperial War Relief Fund of clothing to the value of (, 11,044 7s. lid.

Shipment o f this clothing, to the weight of over 66 tons, and comprising 202,682 various articles, has been made to the Save the Children Fund and League of Nations representatives in Athens and Constantinople, and to the British refugees in Malta and Cyprus.

The distribution of the clothing sent to Athens, which was valued at £13,000, has been effected in such a way that it has come into the hands of the most needy amongst the refugees.

In view o f the approaching winter, and the great destitution of the refugees, there is still a very urgent need for gifts of this description.

The situation amongst the refugees in Greece is still a very serious one and it has been aggravated by the withdrawal in July last o f the American Red Cross, who were feeding nearly 500,000 souls. The influx of a million refugees into a country whose population is only five millions, is a burden which even a prosperous nation would find difficult to bear. While a certain amount of relief may be afforded by the flotation of the international loan for their settlement, which has been sponsored by the League of Nations, the measures contemplated by it can only touch a part of this grave and tragic problem. It musi also be borne in mind that the proceeds of this loan could only be used for actual settlement purposes, and could in no way contribute to the emergency feeding o f the people.

The outlook for the coming winter is serious in the extreme. Reports from the administrators in the field are coloured with pessimism for what the approaching rigours of winter will bring with them. The majority of the refugees arc scantily housed, and still more scantily clothed. The advent o f cold and hunger may well result in a repetition of the terrible epidemics which mercilessly assailed them in the winter months of last year. The privations of the interval will make them even more easy victims.

Especially in Salonica are the conditions likely to be desperate. In that city and its environs there arc over 70,000 refugees herded together, of whom about 75 per cent, are children and whose numbers arc swelled by some 2,500 arrivals every week from other parts. There is no foreign relief in the city, and the Greek Government, which is doing all that is financially possible, is only able to give a daily grant of the value of about three farthings to children under twelve and to the decrepit over sixty-five years of age. It has only been possible for the All-British Appeal to open a kitchen there for the feeding of some 6,000 children at a sacrifice of other refugees who have so far been fed in other parts of Greece. It is not a question of closing down elsewhere because there is no need, but because the need in Salonica is so much more desperate than in other centres.

But while the situation is tragic, the proposed loan gives liortfc that the problem of ultimate settlement is not insoluble. Its material™ sation would not, however, decrease in any way the need for charitable help for the refugees during the coming winter, when the settlement schemes would lie initiated. Whereas the work of the Imperial War Relief Fund has in the past been largely of an emergency nature, there is an opportunity here not only of crowning the work already done by a satisfactory achievement, but of participating in a reconstructive effort which would be of enduring value both toGreecc and to Europe as a whole.

But the continuance of relief means more than this. It means that for many thousands of sufferers only continued assistance can keep open the door of ultimate settlement. Without the refugees there can be no settlement ; without food these thousands cannot survive until their settlement is achieved. The future holds for them a threat and a promise : on the one hand, a threat of starvation, disease, death,—an irrevocable climax to the unutterable terrors and sufferings through which they have already passed ; on the other, a promise o f a new life in Greece, if their mere existence can be assured through the coming months.

And it is to England and the British people that they look, old men. old women, little children, for the food that is going to save them yet. The Council is certain that those subscribers, out of whose liberality life has been given to so many of these wretched beings, will once more find the means of sustaining them for a little longer.

A xncnditnrc.

The Council has done its utmost to cut down the cost o f its appeals to the slenderest margin compatible with the ultimate success of its efforts ; and it will be seen from the accompanying Receipts and Payments Account for the year 1922 that this object has been satisfactorily accomplished.

In their activities for that year, the expenses of the Fund were only Four and three quarters per cent, of a total of cash received and gifts in kind distributed amounting to over $400,000.

In conclusion the Council wishes to take this opportunity of thanking all subscribers most warmly for the generous help that "they have given, and trusts that their continued generosity may be relied upon in its present undertakings.

G E N E R A L REMARKS.Policy.

The policy of the Imperial War Relief Fund has always been to promote as far as possible the utmost economy both in appeal and in the administration of relief. In view of this, the Council has refrained from administering the funds by special units, so long as it has been satisfied that the relief effected by the Societies to whom grants have been made has been effectively and economically carried out. The Council has therefore come to the conclusion that the interests o f the subscribers to the Fund have best been served by the action that it has taken, and that the despatch of units maintained out of their donations has been unnecessary. At the same time insistence has always been laid on the fact that relief afforded by the funds of the Imperial War Relief Fund should in every case be administered under the direct supervision of British workers.

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Major Johnson,High Commissariat for Refugees. League of Nations.Geneva.

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Dear Major Johnson,

I am sending you herewith a copy of the Report of the Imperial War Relief Fund, which I think you will like to see.

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Yours faithfully,

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6th March 1924.

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Dear Major Johnson,

Philip Baker has suggested that

you ought to have copies of our weekly notes, as he

thinks they would be valuable to you. I am therefore

sending under separate cover a complete set from the

beginning of the year, and will see that one is sent

to you each week in future.

Yours sincerely,

Secretary.

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Fro.n the Press and Publicity Department of the All British Appeal

(Imperial War Relief Fund and the Save the Children .Fund).

7th January 1924.

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Storm and cold in Greece.

Tho following urgent telegrams have been received from Dr.

Konnedy.

Athens , 29th Doooraber.

Western Maoodonia now covered with snow hard frost at nighu refugees at Sorovitch Vortekop Coznna still in tents. cannot emphasize too strongly urgent need more blankets clothing Prosent supply exhausted end December. Forood reopen kitchen Vortekop where also will issue clothing many entirely desti-

Athens, 3rd January.

Severe storm intense cold Maoodonia causing groat suffering rail communications with Salonika broken Volo telegraphs today suffering consequent storm appalling Several deaths following outbreak typhus more clothing blankets soap imperative Am forced increase number fed camot promise any doorcase two_ months we are only foreign organisation giving general relief our funds only sufficient help one tenth destitute mostly womon and children flour donations from Dominions exhausted.

Clothing. A further shipment of now and old clothing and material to the value of £1,936 is being made to Grcece this week. This consignment consists of 67 bales and 10 cases, weighing nearly 7 tons and comprising 19,054 articles.

A letter has comc from the British administrator at the Piraeus in which ho writes

"I can assure you that novor were supplies of clothing more needed than at the present time, more particularly so in tho Salonika district, whore the c b M is intense and tho refugees' sufferings are hard to witness. I wish it wore in my power to give the donors of clothing to understand tho extent of good their generosity ensures. Perhaps you will try to convoy this to them and to assure them that they arc winning the deepest gratitude of our poor refugees."

Refugee sottlemont loan. The following reports appoarod in theDaily Telegraph of the 2nd and 3rd instant:-

Athens.

"The Bank of England has ciblod Mr. Henry Morgonthau that it has revoked its decision to underwrite the £5,0C0,000 sterling loan, under the sponsorship of tho League of Nations, to help the Greek Government to care for its Asia Minor refugees. Mr. Morgonthauwho is chairman of tho League Commission hero, will probably ro-

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a lready advanced Co50.000 r.md promised a f u l l ,.1,000,000, dux Mr Horponthau d ec la res t h a t a t l e a s t £10.000 COO are necessary to*help the Greek Government with i t s 1,000.000 of *aicx Minor re fu g e e s . The es tablishm ent of new homes in Greece fo r these refugees was to have boon one of the g rea t achievements of the League. The Morgenthau Commission has boon in Athens seven weeks but has not s ta r te d work y e t . Tnn_ .n , n

I t i s understood here t h a t , in s p i t e of the Leaguo soonsorship of the loan , the Banl: of England decided th a t B r i t i s h ,Amerioor. and F-onch in v es to rs would not bo a t t r a c te d imacoount of the d istu rbed p o l i t i c a l condit ions in Grecco. T h e loan was to have been guaranteed by Greek S ta te bonds and the Bank 0 England was tak ing Greek bonds fo r the £1,000,000 s te r l i n g which was being advanced."

Athens. £ Jan.

"The M inis te r of Finance gives a c a te g o r ic a l denia l to a rep o r t t h a t the pro jec ted Greek Refugees' Loan had come to nought owing to the r e fu s a l of Greek bankers to au thor ise i t s i ssu e . Mr. Morgenthau. the former A m e r i c a n Ambassador to Turkey, who i s chairman of the Greek Refugee Settlement Commission, a lso denies the r e p o r t ."

This d en ia l i s confirmed by a l e t t e r rece ived by the Fund in response to enouir ios a t the Greek Legation, s ta t in g t h a t a c a té gor ie a l d en ia l o f the r ep o r t has been given by the M in is te r 01 Finance the Governor of the National Bank of Greece and Mr•Morgenthau h im self . Ir. a l u t t e r addressed to ^ e Secre ta ry oi the Im peria l War R e l ie f Fund from Athens on the 12th December.Ur. Xorgenthau s ta te d t h a t h i s Commission haa a lready assumed the purchase of a la rg e amount of g ra in , s e e d , animals and lamb^r, and th a t i t s a c t i v i t i e s wore well uhder way.

R'inort s from the f i e l d . The fo llowing ex trac ted repor ts have boon rece ived from the Adm inistra tors a t P iraeus and volo.

P i r a e u s , 12 Deo.

Volo and L a r i s s a . I have ju s t returned from a to u r through Jho fczisfcsxx Volo md L a r is sa d i s t r i c t s , .vnere I îound a l l t h e k i tchens working w e l l . I r e g re t to have to r e p o r t , however t h a t the cond i t io n s of the refugees themselves i s in many cases dep lo rab le , i : wade many house to house v i s i t s in order to s a t i s f y myself fu l l y to t h e i r cond it ion , and the scones I v i tn e s sed can only be des- c rib ed as heart ren d in g . Malar&4, which has always been prevaien ir. those d i s t r i c t s , has claimed th e g rea te r number as i t s v ic t im s , and there are but few fam il ie s which have not got a t l e a s t two or th ree members s tr i ck e n w ith i t . Morally and phys ica l ly run down as they a re , th ey have not the necessary rese rve s tren g th to f a l l oacK upon when t h i s d isease a ttacks them, and numbers are dying o i t fo r want of proper nutrim ent and medical c a ro . I t i s r.ard to r e a l is e how p a th e t ic arc some of th e scenes which moot one s eyes. small example, chosen a t random: i t ib the case of ch ild ren with swollenstomachs such as the one whose photograph I enclose . This cond i t io n i s not brought on by m alaria . Only i f fed on a milk d ie t and l ig h t food can these ch ild ren be kept from dying. In a lew words the s u f fe r in g which I foresaw was in s to r e fo r the poor refugees during the w inter months has commenced in earnest and wo s t i l l have the worst p a r t of the w inter before u s . I dread to tninic what i t w i l l be l a t e r on. Such was the impression caused on mp by f in d in g myself in the midst of such misery and s u f f e r in g , t h a t l

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really bogan to foar that I had boon stricken with malaria myself, ar.d^t was only by moans of generous doses of quinine that I manàged to escape.

•,Va are doing what wo can to alleviate their suffering so far as our limited means will permit, but the evil is on such a largo scale that one fools almost discouraged and at a loss whore to commence. Suitable medicinos in particular arc badly required, especially quinine , iodine, castor oil, cotton wool and bandages.

LIilk. TÇg bénéficiai effects of hot mill: ration daily is already plainly apparent on those babies to which I am giving it. Mrs.Night, the wife of the British Consul at Volo, has appealed to me for a supply of Milk. She is superintending a Milk Station for about 500 children under ono year of ago, at Volo. The American Red Cross supplied the milk and when they closed down thoy left a quantity which finished this month.

Prisonors of war. The numbers of our refugeos over hero have suddenly been increased by the arrival of about two thousand five hundred Greek prisoners of war from Turkey, two days ago. Theso mon are in nearly every case natives of Asia Minor, and consequently met v/ith the hardest treatment at the hands of the Turks , vzho looked upon them as traitors. For the most part they ore all in a wretched condition and ir. immediate need of assistance. I witnessed numbers of them landing from the transports which brought them over, and the scone was most pathetic. Crowds of wonran and dhildrcn refugees themselves in almost every instance, had been waiting on the quayside for hours, in the hope that they might perhaps meet or gather some nows of some husband, son, brother or gather who is missing and whoso fate is unknown to them, à ü I watched them, I could not help wondering whether people at home over realised to its fullest extent how deep and awful is the misery into which theso unhappy people have beon plunged, for ono must see for oneself in order to beliove......"

Volo. The near approach of winter makes the position somewhat more critical. VYoakoncd, as thoy have boon by fevers till now, the refugees are nowhere near a fit state to meet the colder weather. Besides largo numbers have no moans of support, and I am daily pressed for relief, which I cannot grant, with my present rations. Sorao cases are more than pitiful, take the following, that of Panayota Kostoura. of Aidin, as typical: During thefirst fighting that occurocd about this town in 1919, her mother- in-law was killed by a shell and her fcfoblo fathor-ih-1 aw was burnt alivo in the fire that destroyed the greater part of Aidin.Her husband lost most of his property at the same time. After tho final disaster in 1922, she. herself, Kostoura, her son a boy of seven, and her mother fled to Smyrna, arriving there at the same time as the Turks. V/ith a number of other refugees they hid in the bog Orthodox Comotcry, where thoy were shortly after discovered by a party of looters, who robbed them of their money and all objects of any value. Panayota's husband was carried off and sho was knifed in the back for having hidden some valuables on her person. She lay whore she had fallen until a landing party of British sailors carriod her off to safety. I ,«ay add sho was pregnant. On arriving at Volo sho was lodged in an old fowl house iwhore sho still lives) and there gave birth to a child which died forty days later from exposure. This woman has suffered from stone for some time past and is quite unable to work. Sho is burdened with her aged mother and little boy. (Jharity has so far kept them aliv?. Tho boy is just recovering from malaria and is in an appalling state. He is anaemic and has a swollen spleen and presents much tho same appjarance as the two boys shown in enclosod photographs.

^ GENERAL BUILDINGS, ALDWYOH, LONDON, W.C.2.

Prom the Press and Publicity Department of the All British Appeal

(Imperial War Relief Puna and the Save the Children Fund).

Weekly Bulletin - No.60. 14th January 1924.

CONDITIONS AT VOL3. The following short report on the conditions at Volo has been supplied by Mr. R.G. Tristram, the British Relief administrator in charge there.

Numbers. Official figures estimate the refugee population of Volo at 10,200 and that of Larissa at a little over 2,000.Housing. Of the former figure mentioned above, some 6,000 are lodged in warehouses and old Military Barracks; the balance have been put into the basements of Schools or private houses. Most of these dwelling places, while providing spme sort of shelter from the inclement weather, are damp and draughty, the basements of schools especially so: thefloor of the latter is bars earth and the only mode of entrance is through a square hole, over which an old length of cloth or a couple of sacks are drawn in a pitiful endeavour to keep the wind out. At Larissa by far the greater number are quartered in private houses ; conditions are similar to those in Volo.

I may add that a small village was started, early in summer, on the outskirts of Volo, to accommodate 1,000 families (a room to a family) or roughly half the refugees in the town. It was intended to have everything ready by the end of September, but so far no more than 500 rooms are approaching completion and at best cannot be furnished before the middle of January.Health conditions. The big epidemic of Malaria last summer has left in its wake large numbers of cases of kidney disorders and anaemia. The disease was particularly hard on the children whose swollen bodies and pinched and pale faces show but too clearly the extent of their sufferings. On the whole the refugees are in a weak state of health. Of the children especially, one may say that they are slowly rotting.Tkhir systems have been undermined by disease and the lack of the amount of food necessary for development. Doctors fear that most of the tising generation will only grow up as consumptives. In spite of the foregoing, the good that is being done by our feeding cannot be doubted. For instance, Miss Owens of the American Near East Relief Society, who passed through Larissa and Volo, congratulated me on the comparatively flourishing state of things in the two towns. At Patras, where she is stationed and where no relief exists apart from the N.E.R. Orphanage, the vitality of the refugees is reduced to a very low point and deaths from hunger occur frequently. And it must be remembered that Patras has not suffered much from malaria.

GREEK APPRECI AT ION ■ An article on the v/ork of the All British Appeal in Macedonia, of which the following is a translation appeared in the Greek nev/s paper PHdS on the 14th December. As readers ofthe Bulletin know, the part of the stores mentioned which were used for feeding adults were supplied from funds collected by the Imperial War Relief Fund.

Since the middle of iks last September, the Save the Children Fund whose philanthropic work has dor.o so much for refugees in the town and camps of Salonika, organised field activities in Western Macedonia under the indefatigable direction of Mr. Sams who is distributing regularly foodstuffs, clothing and blankets in different refugee centres. From November 4th to November 30th he gave out 45,000 rations at Sorovitch, Kozar. and Fiorina district. On November

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8th a fiold kitchon was opened on railroad station Vertekop for the benefit of rofugoos in transit. Those proceeding on thoir journey are provided with a quantity of dry rations. Since the 6th instant 180,000 rations have been distributed in Western Macedonia, half of those are cooked and the rest are given out dry. From November 24th to December 4th a distribution of clothing was made in Sorovitch, Tzatzilar, Servia, Supovon and Dudular. The commodities that the Save the Children Fund is giving out are cocoa, bread, beans, oil, milk, rice, salt and sugar. 600 rations of hot milk are given to the sick at Sorovitch, Kailaria, Kozan and latterly at Tzatzilar. Mr. Sams speaks highly of the military authorities who provide all facilities for the regular transportation of foodstuffs on military lorries.

GENERAL BUILDINGS, ALDV/YGH, LONDON, VY.C.2.

from tho Press and Publicity Department of the All British Appeal

(Imperial War Relief Fund and, the Save the Children Fund).

Weekly Bulletin - No. 61 . 21st January 1924.

Special N o t e . Once more we would remind sympathisers with our work that there' Is the greatest need for every effort during the coming months. The reports, by letter and telegram, which are reaching us, show that the need is very grave and is likely to remain so. The activities of the Settlement Commission are stated by Mr. Morgenthau to be well under way, but he has himself stated that £10,000,000 would be required to complete its work. Of that he has only £1,000,000. No imagination is needed to picture the desperate conditions of theso wretched people, who are still clinging to life in the hope that settlement will come v/ith the summer. It is the duty of British Charity to see that every possible material encouragment is given to them in this figkt for existence. The last lap is always the hardest, and although it is difficult to see that the feeding of the British Relief Societies can be increased, it is essential that its scope should not be lessened. It is condifently hopedthat all those who read these bulletins will do their utmost to seethaif it is not.

Latest reports from the Field. The following XHqçn telegram has been reoeived from Dr. Kennedy:-

Owing to the intense cold the Governor of Macedonia has ordered the refugees in Sorovitoh to return to the coast by special train. The Minister of Public Assistance made a strong appeal tome yesterday for Eastern Macedonia. This is an entirely newarea for ua. I am using reserve emergency fund to meet thesituation at Xanthe. Your bales of clothing are of the greatestassistance but insufficient to meet needs.

The Daily Telegraph, reported a correspondent of the Chicago Daily Tribune, as writing from Athens on the 13th instant: --------------

At Salonika yesterday I saw twenty burials in one hour at Just one of the score of refugee cemeteries around the city. One day last week ten refugees froze to death on the streets of Salonika

a Bnow?to™ - These quarter of a million people are now spend-5 0<m? winter in rude caves and camps for the most part. The

Macedonian and Greek authorities fear they will be dead or doomed by autumn.

Progress of tho Refugee Settlement Commission.

n, -, - The Financial Times stated on the 14th instant that the Bank bas put at the disposal of the National Bank of Greece the

balance of the advance on the loan for refugees.

1110 Morning Post's Athens' correspondent wrote on the 17th Inst.

^«t-+i«™,îff'nMOrP ni:hau*.speakins as Chair nan of the Greek Refugees'?b<mt the refuSee problem, which is one of the

most important now facing Greece, said to me:

iRT\ nnn i Wî îha11 have 42,000 rooms completed for about-1 toto, as well as waterworks and numerous schools. Lou«h 8 - grain, seed, etc., which we are dis-

thflHA the refugees in colonies, and arrangingI taking colonists who have also constituted

c o m m m i t i e s of their own in Turkey and know each other.

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Our intention is to malco these communities collectively rosponeiblo for the tools and implements provided by us. ‘.Vo want to demonstrate for the next six months V/hat can be done with £1 000 000. Then we sir. 11 ascertain how many refugees are still loft. About 500,000 had been already absorbed by the Greeks, and about 90,000 more by the Government in one way or another. How about 500,000 require assistance for permanent placement, without counting those who have arrived since September 1.

It appears that 85,000 agricultural families remain to be permanently established, of whom 45 000 will bo established in the former homes of the oxoh.ærgod Thurkish population.

Clothing. The following communication has been received from a sympathiser who visited the Now Hibe-nia './har f in order to see for himself how the gifts of clothing are doalt with.

"’Then one considers, " ho writes, "how many of us cannot afford to replace old 'things1 by new ones, and in how many directions one can usefully bestow any surplus of now or old, the answer to the winter v.ppeal of the All British Appeal and the Imperial War Relief Fund shows a very wide and admirable generosity. This has not flagged during December, but the many calls of Chi*istmastide have resulted in a decrease both of clothing and of donations. Until the last weok the goods have continued to pour into t .c New Hibernia iVharf by London Bridge, whore space and export labour have boon put at the Fund's disposal by the owners, the Proprietors of Hay’s Wharf. They come in bulk from collecting centres such as lianohostor, Huddersfield, Nottingham and Leiotieibor, or from spécial local collections such as that which Hampstead lately made. They oomo in sacks which represent the collections or the handywork of girls' schools, 'omen's Institutes or Red Cross Dettachnnnts and so on. Large parcels come from manufacturers or '. holosalo dealers.The greator number of parcels, large and small, come from families or single persons. To those who know not the life and rorlc of the riverside it is curious to dive do\m into the arched chambers of the wharf below the levol of tho river at high tide and to be led through stacks of every kind of overseas cargo. To a Froe Trader tho walk would bring a feeling of contentment like a happy dream: toa Tariff Reformer it would bo a nightmare. The Imperial ",'ar Relief Fund is undisturbed by any British politics, and at the other end of tho voyage political interests will not defloct it from its bénéficient course, unless a Greek Govornment should rescind the docroc by which ail relief goods, food, clothing etc. are admitted free of all duties. But the goods are not ready for shipment yet. In the chambers allotted to the Fund tho walls aro lined with pens, such as one might see fit a oattlo-show. Into those the contents of the parcels arc sorted; one for instance will be full of mon's great coats, another of women's drosses and skirts, another of children's underclothing, another of socks and stockings. Every gift and donor is carefully noted by an expert clerk. Apart from tho quantity xz tho quality is surprising. It is rare indeed that anything is oast aside as useless and one might pick over these heaps all day before saying, 'Well, there was not much sacrifice in sending that thing!'One is tempted to think that husbands must have sent tho contents of thoir wives' wardrobes, and wives have ransaakod their husbands' drawers. How could all those things have been voluntarily spared?For the old olothes are good, and tho oldest are clean. Tho undergarments aro freshly washed. Eveidently trouble has not boon spared over sacrifices made.

Always a balle is being made up by export workers out of one or another pon, say a bale of men's sxiits, or women's jackets. Each garment is carefully folded, for it will bo sovroly creased in packing* It is laid on cords between two specially made wooden frames set

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tf lrt by the width-off a bale. When a certain hel^U^_La-reaohed between tho frames, preeeuro is applied by human and other weight until a compact bundle, weighing about 1- cwt is tightly corded and brought out of tho frames. It is wrapped in water proof paper anà then again in canvass. The canvass is sewn up and tho finished bale goes on to a staok of others like it and waits till a ship is due to sail from the docks. Then a mountain of bales goes by road in vans or starts down the river in a barge or lighter. A few weeks later tho shipment will arrive at tho Piraeus. So well are the goods packed at tho wharf, that so far, no single complaint has been received of damage through water or other causes. Then the trouble begins! how to distribute the articles most usefully: howto give least pain by refusal. There are ill-clad backs and limbs enough round the Piraeus already to absorb everyone, but appeals from Salonika, Volo, Dedeagatoh and elsowhero must be net in some degree. However, this roll of new material can certainly stay for the women's workshops outside Athens, whore it will ho made_into serviceable garments and give to the vromen and girls the distraction from their misery which oan be found in useful occupation." That bale of blankets must go to Salonika where so many are still enoamped in the open air. That oase of boots should go to the villages of Mr.ce- donia where the refugees are trying to work on the land in anything that remains of the footgear in which they left their fields in Asia Minor so many months ago. Yet vzhen all is distributed many thousands will be left hoping that the next shipment may bring soma thing for them."

GBNB11AL BUILDINGS, ALDWÏOH, LONDON, W.C.2.

Prom tho praae and Publicity Départirent of tho All British Appeal

(Imperial V.'ar Relief Fund and tho Save the Children Fund).

Weekly Bulletin - No. 62. 28th January 1924.

"THE NEXT TWO MONTHS THE MOST CRITICAL EBBIOD."

Three Important appeals.

Mr. Henry Morgenthau, late American Ambassador in Constantinople and new Chairman of the League of Nations Greek Refugee Settlement Commission telegraphed yesterday to the All British Appeal the following urgent appeal from Athens:

The Greek Refugee Settlement Commission, which is precluded by its statutes from making any charitable expenditure appeals urgently for charitable assistance for the refugees. There are half a million without warm clothes, fever-sodden and inadequately fed. The bulk are in Macedonia and Thrace where severe winter conditions now exist. Many are in tents and housing accomodation is inadequate. Blankets and warm clothes would be most welcome and would save many lives. A further statement is being sent by mail.

Mr. Morgenthau asks earnestly that all possible support should be given to his appeal by sympathisers in Great Britain.

The following telegram dated, Salonioa the 24th instant has been received from Dr. Kennedy:

Mow making food distributions Western Macedonia in eightynine different villages also twentythree kitehens in eperation stop Owing frequent snowfall transport difficult but distributions fairly well maintained stop Still another hundred villages this area unvisited stop Next two months most critical period stop Bitterly coldSalonioa today cannot over emphasise need clothing canyou make special blanket appeal.

Dr. Nansen's thanks and fresh appeal.

The following letter from Dr. Nansen appeared in the Times of the 28th instant:

Sir,

Upon my departure from England to the United States in October last you were good enough to let me make in your colunrnthe appeal that I had made orally at meetings in London and theprovinces on behalf of the Christian Refugees from Asia Minor and Constantinople. May I ask for the same hospitality for an expression of my thanks on behalf of those unhappy people for the response of which I learn upon my return? These thanks are the least return that oan be made for the generosity of the British Empire which has steadily continued to feed 35,000 out of a million adults and children. It has collected and shipped to Greeco many tons of excellent clothing, blankets, boots, and good material to be worked up into garments by the refugees in the workshops established for them in Greece.

I thank the British people and I urge them not to relax their

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generous efforts during these winter months. I am satisfied that the Greek Government oannot do more than it does for this million of new Christian subjects and that external charity must continue. Money for food and the children’s milk is urgently needed, and I also beg for the means of sending quinino and other medical stores for the many thousands who will otherwise become so saturated with malarial poison that they will be unfitted ever to take the chances that will come to them of supporting themselves. The need for clothing and warm materials is practically unlimited, and I trust that the shipments may not be reduced.

As before, donations of money should be sent to the All British Appeal, General Buildings, Aldwych, London, W.C.2, and gifts in kind to the fund at the New Hibernia Wharf, London Bridge, S.E.l.

I am. Sir, your obedient servant,

FRIDTJOF HANSEN, the League of Nations' High Commiseionor for Refugees.

Lysaker, Norway.

Reports from the field.

From Mr. Sans, Salonika.

The refugees in the tents here at Sorovitch are suffering considerably this cold weather but we are doing what wo can to help them. The chief need is for coal and wood and to-day I am trying to get the local authorities to make a special issue of fuel.

Went across Lake Ostrova by boat to a small village - Callartsa - where conditions are none too good, made a blanket and clothing issuo and arranged re kitchen. It is these out of the way places which get neglected if one doesn't go round and see for oneself.

From Mr. Fernie. Piraeus.

We still have crowds of hungry men, women and children hanging round the kitchens in the hope of receiving the few spoonfuls of food which may remain over after the numbers who are provided with cards have been served. It is really sad to have to turn them away hungry, yet it cannot be helped.

From Mr. Trlstam. Yolo.

With the advent of winter, the situation has assumed a very serious aspect indeed. There has been a heavy fall of snow, followed by severe frost, in these parts, and the plight of the refugees can hardly be imagined. Such clothes as these unfortunate beings possAs are worn through by this timo, their shoes can no longer be bo called, reduced as they are to bits of leather that hang on, as it appears to me, by miracle alone. In the course of my rounds to the kitchens I have noticed, here women barefooted but for clogs, there a little gUrl shuffling along without stockings in a huge pair of old shoes, she confesses to be her grandfather's, borrowed to enable her to fetch her food without treading on the ice with her naked feet; again, a pitiful group of scantily clad children crowded up against a kitchen door, bogging for admittance to the shelter of the kitchen, which is already filled to its utmost capacity by earlier comers.

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/-s. a -rieit to the ’warehouses, provides one with aa meh.-jaa&erialfor pity. A oo3.d.-dampy atmosphere, the result of stono or oarthern flooring and ill construo bed doors 53 immediately noticed on entrance. Prom one or moro cornors volumes of. smoko rivio cowards the ceilnng and spread out on all sides. This is caused by the burning of wood, which being gathered in the fields, is domp amd 'ourzs br.clly.I may here rantion that a substantial proportion of the babies that are brought to tho Baby Welfare Station suffer from aore eyeo as a consequence of this smoke<• On tho whole such attempts at warmth are not attended by much success, so most ox the inmates are o ont ont, to wrap themselves up in old sacks and odd blankets, lio on the floor and wait patiently for mildor weather.

The little work that there wan 5n the fields has now completely ceased; further, shippers of tobacco havo now found it to their advantage to ship the leaf unmcipulatod, thus closing the only door to employment of a flew hundred refuge en in Volo. And as if anything else wore lacking, raaloria in its chronic form is in full swing, both in Vole scad Larissa. 'Ehe quinine sent me last summer by the British Red Cross came to an end in November, tho Government issue is fjoanty and also appoars to bo of poor quality, so the disease progresse? unchecked. Typhus has also made itsappearance in Vclo. there have been fifteen cases within the past five days, of which fo.ir have already proved fatal. The latter disease ia undoubtedly the result of overcrowding in warehouses and the complete lack of soan and a change of clothing by the refugees

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r GENERAL BUILDINGS, ALDWYCH, LONDON. ÏÏ.C.ki -

From the Press and fublioity Department of the All British Appeal

( Imperial war Relief Fund and the Save the Children .Fund) .

Weakly Bulletin - No. 65. 4th February 1924.

REFUGEE SETTLSi&KT COMMISSION' S A£?EAL.

In confirmation of the telegram from Mr. Morgenthau, which vas issued in last week's bulletin, the following letter has now boer. rooeived

"Despite the great efforts made by the Greek Government and people, a very large number of refugees are still without adequate shelter, few of them have warm clothes , and most of thorn are inadequately fed. ,

The bulk of the refugees are concentrated in Iiacedoma and western Thrace. Those tracts are now in the grip of winter; the country is under snow; bitterly cold winds prevail ; and tho distress is intense.

The conditions under which the refugees necessarily live at present aggravate greatly the rigours of the climate. They are miserably clad. Thoy are housed in buildings which it is impossible to v/arm, and they are unable to purchase fuel except in the smallest quantities. Many arc «till in tents.

The members of tho Commission have ascertained these fates by personal inspections, and have had them verified by the reports of indepdndont authorities. In Salonica ton deaths wore recently registered in one day, due solely to cold; numbers havo also died elsewhere of cold and exposure.

Tho mortality among tho refugees is deplorably high. -he distress is tho more severe, as tho refugee population contains an unusually largo number of women and children, who have no breadwinner and as malarial fover prevails throughout Macedonia and Thrace to on alarming extent.

Tho Commission estimate that the number in need of relief is not loss than 500,000. This figure is supported by the statistics of tho Greek Government. .

Gifts of blankets, underclothes, and v/arm clothing oi any kind, used or otherwise, would be very greatly appreciated, and would undoubtedly save many lives. Rvon thin cotton undercloth.s would be of value , as tho vast majority of tho refugees" have no "change of garments.

Arrangements have boon made under which all gifts ox dotting will be distributed through tho agonoy of tho Refugee Settlement Commission's Staff, of the British Save tho Children and Imperial War Relief Funds. .

The Commission, it should be explained, are precluded by their statutes from devoting any part of the uums at their disposal to charitable purposes ; those funds arc reserved strictly for tho establishment of the refugees upon a productive basis.

Thcsyfell, however, that it is incumbent on them to place the verified facts’before the charitable public in England and they are confident that tho response will be immediate and generous."

Note: This -qppe-.l will be issued as a leaflet by the Imperial WarRelief Fund. :ifid requests for copies should bo sent to tho Secretary at the above address.

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r* URGENT TEMPORARY MEASURES.

The following telegram from Dr. Kennedy was roooivod on tho 1st February

"Have authorised Volo station give relief as urgent temporary measure at Karditsa. Larissa refugees desperate plight owing intense cold. Am opening new station Xanthc where Sams describe8 situation critical. Twelve thousand additional refugees in town alone who have again become destitute owing to cessation tobacco industry. All stations telegraph to-day for clothing blankets extra rations."

LOSS OF CLOTHIIIG SHIPMENT.

The sinking of the s.s. Maid of Spotsai on tho 26th January through a collision at tho mouth of tho English Channel means the loss to tho refugees of 97 bales of clothing and material, valued at £<i ,000, which had just been shipped from London. This loss is all the more to be deplored as this consignment was an especially good one, now material being included to the value of over £600.

although tho consignment was fully insured, it is sincerely hoped that, in view of the bad weather conditions in Greece, sympathisers will respond quickly to this emergency so as to enable this grave deficiency to be mot.

SEVERS WEATHER IK GREECE.

From the Morning Post 2?th January.

Since Thursday unusually severe weather has prevailed hero.Snow has fallen in the city, and the surrounding mountains arc entirely covered. The temperature fell to 19 degrees Fahrenheit, and was much lov/er in Northern Greece - 12 degrees at S:JLonika and 4 below zero at Vodena, causing numerous deaths to refugees, and much damage to vegetation. It froze in Athens all day on Saturday, a phenomenon only thrioo observed since 1847; namely, twice in 1858 and onco ir. 1898.

The snow is over 5ft deep at Marathon, and has interrupted the ra ilwaynbetweon Salonika and Athens. The Continental express could not got beyond Kfcourka, 18 miles from Athens, whoro the snow reached the carriage windows. Thu train had to romain all night in a snowdrift.

FEARS OF LIALAPIA EPIDEMIC.

From the correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. Athens. 20th January.

A fever plague is threatened ir. Greece. M. Vonizelos has boon informed by th> Greek Health Minister that a groat part of the Asia Minor refugees are inoculated with gcrrrs of the most malignant Anatolian malaria fever, and are communicating this dioec.sc to all nativo Greeks with whom they come in contact. The Greek Government to-day appealed to the American Charge d1Affairs for twenty tons of quinine.

M. Dioxides, Minister of Health, declared thnt a widospreai outbreak of malaria, with appalling fatalities, would occur with tho beginning of tho warm weather. IIo expressed the opinion that zve n a'iundant supplies of quinine cannot entirely avert the threatnnoü outbreak. Scores of refugees are already dying from malaria, aggravated by hunger and exposure.

THE REFUGEE SETTLEMENT LOAH.

Pross Association. Athens. £Qth January.

From conversations which ho has had in financial circles, Mr.

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Morgenth.au, tho Chairman of tho Commission, hopos that a £2,000,000 refugee lorm will be subscribed in Greece, and half-a-nillion by Greeks in America. Of tho £1,000,000 advanced by tho Bank of England, £250,000 only havo boon dovotod to tho noods of refugees in tho cities many of whom are earning a trifle, while- tho balance of the Bank's advance will be devoted to refugees in llacedonian and other outlying districts who are in dire misery. This sum of £750,000 will bo spent in providing them with shelter, agricultural implements, seed corn, and stock.

Mr# Morgonthau proposes to lead a campaign in favour of tho refugees in American next summer. Ho v/ill himself give lectures on tho refugee situation, calling in the aid of the cinema to impress its horrors on the public. Dovoting himself heart and. soul to tho refugee cause, the ex-Ambassador to Turkey is, by his disinterested efforts and generosity, winning the general gratitude of the people of this country.

Northern Echo. 28th January.

The Governor of the Bank ôf England has written to the Governor of the National Bank of Greece, M. Diomodo, congratulating Groeco upon having obtained a Government which possesses incontestable authority under M. Venizelos, and v/hich Britain is ready immediately to recognise. „ ,

Ho adds that ho is confident of the success of tho loan of £6,000,000 for refugees. ?. Diomede will go to London in May to negotiate this loan.

Owing to pressure on spaco several reports from tho field must bo hold over until next week.

GENERAL BUILDINGS, ALDÏ/YCH, LONDON, W.C.2.

F r o m P r e s s and Publicity Department of tho All British Appeal

(Imperial War Relief Fund and tho Save the Children Fund).

Weekly Bulletin - No■ 64. 11th February 19 24.

LATEST TELEGRAM.

Dr. Kennedy wires from Athens on the 7th instant;Extremely wintry weather in Macedonia. Roads blocked and relief difficult. Australian flour and clothing very welcome increasing food issued to our utmost capacity. All children's rations being supplemented by milk and cocoa extra during severe weather. Have assumed responsibility five hundred Bulgarians Western Thrace.

TYPHUS NOW SPREADING VOLO. ADDITIONAL THREE THOUSAND REFUGEES ARRIVED SALONIKA THIS WEEK. MORE EXPECTED PROM BLACK SEA AREA.

LOST CLOTHING SHIPMENT.

Arrangements have been made to advance immediately the sum of £2,200. for which tho clothing on the Maid of Spetsai was insured, for the purchase of food and clothing in Greece for tho refugees. No time will in this way be lost in applying to their needs the value of the gifts which were included in that shipment.

A further shipment of 48 bales valued at about £950 was made from London during the week-end.

DESPERATE NEED IN MACEDONIA.

Mr. H.'.V.H. Sams reported last month from Salonica; -Owing to the extremely cold weather which has prevailed dur

ing the past fortnight the outlook for many of the refugees in Western Macedonia, especially in the outlying districts, daily is assuming a more serious aspect. For instance at Sorovitch, tho main centre from which agricultural refugees arc sent further inland to the villages, 300 Greek and Âxxxi Armenian refugees have been temporarily sheltered for tho past 30 days in two lightly constructed wooden barracks and in ordinary tents.Since tho severe cold which sot in about ten days ago the sufferings of those poor unfortunates has greatly increasjd for many of them are insufficiently clothed and have so little bedding that it is practically impossible for them to keep warm at night. In addition to tho hard frosts a bitter north wind blows constantly during tho day. How the women and children survive such conditions of living is difficult to say.

The situation in the more remote villages calls for special attention as owing to difficulties of transport at this time of year tho inhabitants have but very interrupted communication with the larger con- Itrès. On a recent visit to Kromsa - a small village about four hours on "~ horseback from Sorovitch - our local representative found tho refugees in this lonely spot in a most pitiable condition. All the inhabitants about 130 in the village wore sick and practically all were in a state of semi-starvation. In every house the same distressful scono presented itself - men, women ar.d little children, miserably clad wore sitting and lying huddled on the floor trying to keep warm. Theso people hadoriginally been prisoners in Asia Minor and consequently when they arrived ! in Grecco they came without any possessions except their clothes (if sue)» , terra can be applieà to the rags they wore). A kitchen has now boon

established in the village and a clothing and blanket issue will soon bo

'.ïeokly b u l le t in 64/ r .

A HOST MOVING RTr?V. h■Vo giro i t in hor

The following communication e n t i t l e d "A walk a monest t-ho Homo« o ? k o f o°f h3f ?.?=” " = = 1''”» from J o ï S s o ÜworK-r 01 tho Swodish Woman1s m issionary Sociotv own words:

2S-.SÎ îï.not only nas l o s t th o ir homo l u t , v ,„ tho I r h ^ M l U ' î M S t y have boon through those awfully l o s t yea rs , did thoy lu s t y°a j horo f l ï d a safe ground, when thoy f le d from tho sword. v/o foci do-n thnr.kfni

W0 | h in*v.lbout how* throu§h tho kindnoes of tho European and ’ ? l iv o s of thousands and thous.ar.ds have boon kout

through the so years'. And tho f r ien d s a t homo ask perhaps i f i t not But wrU£ ‘o t 01V' v fS pooplo not now arc able to support ' thomsolf.Saked l i f - nomo S t h t th0USands of ■•wn had saved only th e i rSf i t i l l " 'no woik T ’ PlQC° s ,whcr= to l iv e and, the worst

¥ ^ £■ S i - î i ^ ’s - ^ L î ï

1 " " H t y ' s e o ==™motho1r 8h = ^ ï t -5 ro a î to g ™ ° Z a? Ü t

ïh^T ; . b0 -r‘ the Su tor.ts too, i t was a l l in so r ic e ord r th a tto s»=h iâo hlESuï f ’"ltfcrat t e fool ashmod!

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I th ?rk \ v, Hormankc-o, so -about ono an hourI th in k i s j u s t a g a ther ing of the poorest of the poor.from the c i ty ,

S d SmelancoficSlooking % £ hungry

fa t he

and so u n s i f f i c i e n t drossôd l i t t l e ones l i t ? ' ? tho a iu l t s are s ta rv in g . I t i s hard

; o .os s ta r v in g Vat they d o n 't understand to car-, so much. i s hard -oo, to soo mon s ta rv in g as I have seer, sev era l time

?nT*vhavh" f fc r îr'lvS b*on 8iok or thoro i$; no work, ta l i : about that h .■ i s hungry, h is family i s th a t too • soon thorn trem beling from woek-

ro t so much the f uux • woo’f [ind s iok looking answer " i t80 much t t 0 ±ov;jr th a t makes me mad but tho hunger. I saw

.vhon I asked thorn what 's the m atter ,

most of thor

ar.d^he should care fo r them but I ha’. anâ hunger. So many such poor t so much tho fever th a t makes m.

another so t and cry as ch ild ren , and"- tn-jy sa id " I • m so hungry. "

Toouîd’' ? - ! ,a \ n ? ? t '14 1,:“ : 8l0lt for T0sk"- !” lootedcould h irdly Jit. ^o-day ne had put tho ir only blanket

the ground, he fount! i t warmer so, but in the nightolfl"fliri-v > ,, ,.........’u'x " h ono blanket and under them only anol* d l r t y L u -- Amonest ' ot her s a t th roe c h ild ren shivering", so

Their mother to ld me with t e a r s she had i«k too , he had b jooiko b e t t e r and •••ont to work, but he had not turned back again.

t have happened to him but Th.- same th in g happened the

around him and lay they must have both enough o

i r t y bag. Amongst th« otho pal'- , t h in and n ea rly naked l'h one b igger boy. ho had b th e town, hoping to f ind I t was now two wo :ks ago. Something ™ how to got to know anything about th a t?

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Tho father had boon sick for a long time and thon the first daj h, could go outside tho door, ho wont to tho town to look for work and did not com2 hack again. Kay be they have faintod or fallon down

d-'ad. To-day when I wont through I founa ir. ono plaoo throo children under ono blanket. The doctor had even boon there. Thon tho girl came to me and with tears rolling down her chocks. shu asked

for some money for a broad : "Wo are so h u ngry,In another place sat two women both s i0J J 00^

Tho ono had got a little soup in a dish and in childish manner sho looked at it and said "I take only so. ono spoonful each time so that I foci not tho hunger so much, and that tho soup m ay bo durable." But sho could hardly spook for weakness. And so in many cases, tho food, that easily ono could oat at onco, must food 2persons in the day. And thon tho lack of klothcs and bods. Oh,tho cold day I visited the village and saw the many sicl. o:ntho floor, in only some rags 1 '.Voll, thoy froze but all as., broad. And when I in ospocial poor cases gave some help how I try to hide it but it is not possible, and then all came and each ono can't understand that she or ho can't, got a little help too. .

Yostorday I went in some t e n t s , whoro the people wore living just on tho cold and wet grounds. Some of these people live on what they got from tho soldier. When the soldiers have had thoir

breakfasts they gather what is loft in their dishes ond th. , ^ 0S° of all comc and get this foo d . In ono tent I entered I found 3 children ono of 13 years in high tovor. tho both snollcr pala with malaria faces. Their mother had throo weeks ago boon sont to a hospital and they had not boon able to find out what had beco a

o h if you could have soon their utter poor condition. I gave a poor wïman who lives in the next hut a little money and asked

her to take care of the children till they get well again. Ofcourse I had to give her a little money for herself too but that she would not have done it without paying, but her family is hungry too and wo could not expect that they would bo able not to take of

the food of the other children. ___An Armenian said a day: "Well, it is hard now but o u r ^

people are brave and klever and as soon as it gets a little warmerthey will know to go and gather some grass and ^roon and o..u thvir food." And that he said as tho most natural thing in the world.

Gifts of monoy should bo sont to tho Eon. -Treasurer, All

British Appeal, General Buildings, Aldwych .London W.C. of clothing and material etc. should be addressed to the Appeal

the. Hew Hibernia Wharf,. London Bridge , S.E.l.

zA fter Eighteen ~l/o/\Ms.^ 1—TIT

ÏN the A utum n o f 1 9 2 2 a million Christian refugees sw arm éd to the shores of Greece before the T u rk , of w hom over 800,000 were destitute.

In January, 1 9 2 4 , eighteen m onths afterwards, the following urgent appeal was m ade by the League of Nations Refugee Settlem ent C om mission, w hich was appointed to adm inister the forthcom ing international loan for settling the refugees into productive work.

“ Despite the great efforts m ade by the G reek Governm ent and people, a large num ber of refugees a re still w ithout adequate shelter, warm clothes o r food. T he bulk are concentrated in W estern T hrace and Macedonia which a re now in the grip of winter. T h e c o u n try is u n d e r s n o w ; b i t te r ly c o ld w in d s p rev a il , a n d

Distress is Intense

T h e conditions under which they live aggravate the rigours of the climate. M A N Y A R E S T I L L I N T E N T S . T h e m em bers of the Commission have ascertained these facts by personal inspection an d have h ad them verified by independent authorities. In S a lo n ic a te n d e a th s w e re re g is te re d in o n e day , d u e so le ly to co ld . N u m b er., h a v e a lso d ie d e ls e w h e re f ro m c o ld a n d ex p o su re . T he mortality among the refugees is deplorably high. T he d istress is th e m ore severe, as the refugee population contains :i large num ber of W O M E N A N D C H I L D R E N w i th o u t b r e a d w in n e r s and th rough out M acedonia and Thrace M A L A R I A L F E V E R P R E V A I L S to an alarming extent.T he Commission estimates that

'The number in need o f re lie f is not less than 500,000

This figure is confirmed by the statistics of the G reek G overnm ent. T he Commission is precluded by its sta tutes from devoting any p art of its funds to charitable purposes, a:; these funds a re reserved strictly for th e estab lishm ent of the refugees upon a productive basis. I t feels, however, th a t it is incum bent upon it to place the v e r i f ie d fa c ts before the charitable public in England, an d it is confident that the response will be immediate and generous."

It is hoped that the international loan will be floated in a few months’ time, but in the interval the Commission is powerless to help the starving refugees.

I t is for this in te rval th a t w e ask Y O U to help them . Your charity will be rew arded not m erely by their gratitude, but b y the knowledge that w h a tev e r is given now is the only m eans w hereby th e ir lives can be saved and th e hope of final and defin ite se tt lem en t a fforded to them .

T h ey have suffered long enough. A re they, th rough lack of Y O U R generosity , to be left to die a t last w ith se tt lem en t in sight ? T ow ards this final effort, w e earnestly ask you to G IV E S O M E T H IN G , money o r clothes, H O W E V E R L IT T L E .

N othing is too sm all to be o f

J'altte in their F ight fo r L ife

Donation» o f money should be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, Imperial War Relief Fund, General Buildings, Aldwycb, W.C.2. Gift* of clothing to the Imperial War Relief Fund 0/0 N ew Hibernia Wharf, London Bridge, S.K. 1

G3IÎ3RAL BUILDIirOS, ALDWYCH. V 0.2.

From the "rests and Publicity Lepartment of the All British Appeal.

( Imperial War Relief Fund and the .-jave tho Children Fund.

..eekly bulletin - lie. ci: 18th February 1924.

iA specimen of the new leaflet is attache!. Further

copie:’ will gladly be supplied by the Secretary of the Imperial Vvar Relief Fund.

GRAVE SITl'ATIûi: AT SALONIKA.

The following appeared in the Morning Post of the 15th instant :

Athens, 12th Feb.

The British Consul-General at Salonika hay sent an urgent appeal to tho Foreign Office or. behalf of the refugees in his district. He shows that unless speedy help be forthcoming many will die of exposure and starvation before the land settlement schemes can mature. The situation has been aggravated by tho recent severe weather, when 45 degrees Fahrenheit of frost were registered in Macedonia and the Voder.a waterfalls froze. During this weather eighteen thousand refugees were, and still are, under canvas. The Consul-General found terrible conditions at the Lembet camp, owing to the sudden influx of refugees from the pontus. Infant mortality is specially high. The Greek Government and private Greeks are doing their best, but the problem would tax the resources of a Great Power.

RHP CRTS FRCiv'l THE FIELD.

The following telegram, dated Athens the 14th instant has been received from Dr. Kennedy:-

Hare just arrivei from inspection Saloniea conditions refugees outside city especially children owing intense cold barefooted bogging for warmth stop Children drinking ration hot cocoa and milk on the post highly appreciated opening kitchen 500 Xantho and arranging three kitchens aval la for destitute widows and children Have receive.; appeal

from Minister Public Assistance for help arrival new batch refugees and prisoners war from Asia Minor.

COl'D IT I OK S AT XAilTHE.

The following report dated Gumulijina the 28th January has been received from Mr. !i W.H. Sams :

The present number of refugees ir. X ant he and in theneighbouring villages I s ,000 of v/hon about IT- ,000 are in the towni-ts< L S3 li thoi (ho } i 'ror: isi >. Minor thure are 8C0families - . : pie - fron the nt ts and bout tr ini ■Most ■' tfc Pontus people are now installed in the villages.

the refugees in . rovernmor.t gives 10okes of graii per p- rsoi p« moi th, nd this is th nly ood issuemade. ei 1 » d ir; a Is listributi Cor ti ! n g . .closing down of the American Hvd Oror-s activities in Western Thrace

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.Veekly Bulletir. 6fi/£.

in August of last year the refugees have not received any food issues from either the government or any relief organisation beyond the grain issue mentioned above. Turing the Christmas ar.d 17ew Year holidays the government rade grants of money varying frcrr. 50 to £CC drachmas to the most necessitous oar.es ir. thc town. There are no more funds tc make similar grants in the future.

îâar.y refugees from Salonica and elsewhere flock to X ant he as reports have beer, circulated that there is always plenty of work in this district, but now that the tobacco factories are having a slack season numbers of those people who came .and expected to be employed are without work. This state of affairs will probably last for the nex^ two or three months or ever, longer. These refugees who arrived sorno months ago and were employed during the picking season will no doubt have made sufficient money with which to carry or., but the later comers will probably suffer some hardship until v/ork begins again. It is the latter class of refugees for which assistance is r.ow asked.

The majority of the refugees are living in houses, mosques and other buildings in the town, but there is also a considerable number accommodated in new "maisonettes" which have beer, constructed nr. the outskirts of the town. These places ore very well built,£00 have already been erected and it is hoped to build on this spot mother .ICC. The cost of these 500^houses is being paii out of a fund raised by the collecting of a 3f'■ tax or. the local tobacco crop for last year. Some three million drachmas were thus collected for the above purpose. The government is also pushing forward the construction of houses for the refugees in eight villages in the neighbourhood.

The refugees in Xantho have the advantage of being housed in fairly good buildings and most of the places visited wore substantially constructor! . clean and dry. Sonv, of the people lack a sufficient Quantity of bedding an?, there being in several oases only two or three bl-ir.kets tn a family of from four to six members. i:r. one case ;vas found a family of fi persons living ir. •?. small space walled in by three blankets and a few old sacks.

CCNIITIOUS AT 7CL.0.

The following report dated January :>:th has been received from Mr. Tristram:-

An appalling amount of suffering is being caused by another full of snow or. Tuesday, followed again by severe frost which still continus. For th.- past f->ur day ■ the thermometer has been regist r- ing from 8/lC degrees below freezing point during the day. I have again taken photographs of some children at the Kitchens ; unfortunately the camera cannot depict the agony of walking about in summer jclothes and worn ones at that, ar.d wooden clogs : r. this ■-■cl:- . One must be or. the spot to realise what is being endured. It speaks much for the straits to which rhe refugees are reduced that the latter she ! I venture forth on the ice bound roads and in the face of a piercing northwest wind to fetor: I: Lr food 5 sue} '.’ire.

l o n a t i o n s o f mono y shoulit be f i u n t t o t h e Ho:. . T r e a s u r e r , A l l B r i t i s h A .p pea l, ' ï ' - n . - r u l B u i l d i n g s , Al. iwych ,

? i f ' : s ■- f c l o t h i n # &c. s h o u l d b a d d r e s s e d t o t h e App a l i t IIib r n i a

r*GENERAL buildings, aldy/yoh, m. c. ?..

From the Proas and Publicity Department of the All British Appeal.

(Imperial Tar belief Fund and Have the Children Fund).

Bulletin - No. 66. 8£th February 1924.

LATEST REECRIS.

The following telegram dated Athens Slat has beer, received from the administrator at the Piraeus:

95C prisoners war arrived Piraeus from Asia Minor all in wretched condition requiring immediate relief stop Reported cases spotted fever Corfou stop Conditions S'llnnica still critical Administrator asking increase rations opening another milk station Salonica city.

A MOST GENEROUS DO MAT I ON.

The Imperial War Relief Fund has received a cheque for £1 000 from an anonymous donor ir. Edinburgh. This donation is being put to immediate use, and arrangements have beer, made whereby an "Edinburgh" kitchen shall be opened in Greece where with this amount 1,000 adults car. be fed for over four months.

REPORTS PROM THE FIELD.

From I/.r ■ H.’.'.H. Sams : -

Refugees at Drama and Cavalla. The present number of refugees in the Prefecture of Lrama is 105.CuC of whom about three fifths have come from the Pontus and the Caucasus districts while the remainder were formerly inhabitants of Eastern Thrace and Asia Minor.

There is a considerable number of refugees ir. the two chief centres of this area. Drama and Cavalla, the figures being as follows

Drama 18,000 Cavalla 22.COOIt was stated that in Drama there are h,000 widows arid

orphans who ure in need of assistance, while the number of this class of refugee in Cavalla reaches R ,000.

During the past 15 months the Government has expended a sum amounting to 600,000 drachmas for the refugees in this Prefecture.'.'nod is being supplied for the erection of houses for the refugees ir. the villages. _

The most necessitous of the refugee!.? in this area are those originating from the Por.tus and the Caucasus the total number from those t vo districts reaching 4C ,000. Ir. the whole area therf* 180 villages and in most of these refugees are now living. 't is estimated that about 20 000 of these people are in need of help of some kind. The Irefect is of the opinion that of any total number of rations divided between Drama ar.d Cavalla three parts of this total should be assigned to Cavalla. No food is be ins 1st t by loaal authorities to tne refugees ir. the towns of either Drama cr Cavalla, and the only foreign relief being giver, at present is medical treatment ir. the two hospitals

GENERAL BUILDINGS, ALDWYCH, V,".0.2 j ^

Frof^he Press and. Publicity department of the All*British Appeal.

(imperial '.Tar Relief Fund and Save the Children Fund) .

TToekly Notes - No. 67. 3rd March 19£4.

EASTER APPEAL TO CHURCHES.

The following letter, accompanied by the latest leaflet (After Eighteen months) has been iddrossod by LORD CECIL, the President of the Imperial ',Var Relief Fund to the clergy of the Church of England and ministers of other denominations all over the world :

Dear Sir,

In bringing to your notice the Final Appeal of the Christian refugees in Greece which is explained in the accompanying leaflet . I would like to draw your attention to two facts : -

Only private charity can now save the lives of many of the 500,000 refugees who are now destitute, and Only that charity can make possible a great deal of the work of the Refugee Settlement Commission, which it is hoped will be enabled by an international loan to make the refugees self-supporting at the end of the summer.The appeals of the British Relief Societies for the last

eighteen months have made the condition of these people familiar to you. It is perhaps oven more tragic now when, through lack of private generosity, they may yet bo cheated of the settlement which is in sight.

I do, therefore, very earnestly ask you to do what you can to nuke certain that the work of these societies is not cut short before that season. By the time this letter reaches you thoir funds will be gravely diminished, and I sincerely trust that you will be :;bl:; to appeal to your congregation if not for money then at any rate for clothing. or to send a personal donation reinforced by those o1£ other sympathisers in your community. Further copies of the leaflet v/ill gladly bo sent, if desired, by the Secretary of the Fund.

I fool sure that the generosity which has alroady bo on shown by the Christian congregations of the Empire will not dotvr you once the facts are realised, from doing your very utmost for the list time on behalf of your suffering fcllow-men.

Yours very truly,

President of the Council.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY1S SUPPORT.

In this connection Lord Cecil has received the following letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury:

I trust that your forceful appeal, coming as it does from or.c who has pro-ominontly the right to speak to us ,md to stimulate our endeavour, may result in such substantial aid as may really alleviate the sufferings of those unh ippy people and enable them to take advantage of the offer made by the League of Nations Settlement Commission.

Wookly Kotos V I[ 2.rLATEST TELEGRAM.

Tho following tolegram was sont by Dr. Kennedy from Athens on tho 28th February:

Cold weather with high winds still continues refugees still in tor.ts at Sorcvitdh where• wo have established with new marques damp with laundry kitchen school bath house and temporary shelter for sick stop Ministry relief makes another special appeal for Chios Samos and Mityleno whore there are 25C00 women and children

REPCRT3 FROM THE FIELD.

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Sqlonica. Tho following facts regarding tho camp at Lembothave boon brought to tho notice of His Majesty's Government by His Majesty's Consul Generali at Salonika who xrisitod it lately. Lembot camp, which lies about 4 miles from Salonika, is it appears at present the worst station in the district. From conditions prevailing there tho state of tho other camps may be fairly guagod. It contains about A,000 refugees, housed in stone huts. Under the auspices of tho Anglo-American Relief Committee, which had to cease operations last year owing to lack of funds, it was considered one of the best regulated of the camps and a model of its kind. Had it not boon that many thousands of refugees from Pontus despatched by the Turks without warning last September the camp would have boien evacuated and closed down on tho departure of tho Relief Committee. His Majesty's Consul General reports that not only are tho refugees xx±£ here insufficiently clothed and fed, but they ?j-o suffering a great deal from dysentery and malaria. There is a small and very inadequately equipped hospital containing 21 bods whore patients arc attended to only by a fow inexperienced Greek nurses. Besides these nurses there is a smallstaff of doctors, of whom he saw only one in the whole camp. A small and wholly insufficient quantity of food is issued to the women and children by tho Government. The men got nothing except what they filch from the women and they are too far from the town to sock work easily. The Government rations are to a certain extent supplemented by a soup kitchen run by tho Save the Children Fund but the resources of this fund aro very limited.. There is no milk kitchen and no dispensary or proper supply of drugs. In some of the larger sheds the refugees are picked as many as a hundred together. The mortality has naturally been very high. His Majesty's Consil General says that in his opinion the refugees can only bo kept alive by assistance from abroad.

?Iote: Tho All British Appeal is only able to relievo 150C refugeesat this camp.

Mr. A. T. Fernio writes from tho Piraeus- or. tho 14th February as follows

"I havo just returned from Salonica. The refugees, most of whom are living outside the city, are all in a deplorable condition.The cold there is even worse than it had been in Athens end Piraeus, andin many cases tho poor people have not even the doubtful consolation of a tent to creep under, and are out in the open. Half naked, quitebarefoot for the most part, it is indeed heart-rending to eoe humanbrings shivering in tho bitter cold and praying for a little fire to warm themselves at or some sort of clothing, even if only a littlo.

Most of the children get tho hot ration of milk and cocoa which

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wo are issuing -it tho different camps in the morning. I wish thepeople at homo could boo thoso poor little childror. on joying a hotdrink or. tho spot, whore it is distributed. I should 11 ko to givethorn a ration of broad along with tho milk and c o c o a in the mo lining. In fact tho rofugoos both at Salor.ica, Volo, Larissa and hero aro crying out for an increased ration of b r o a d , and tho Greek authorities havo put this mattor before mo several times

Donations of money should bo sont to the Hon. Treasurer, All British Appeal, General Buildings, Aldwych, London, W.C.2.

Gifts of clothing, material etc, should bo addrosaod to tho Fund at tho Now Hibernia Wharf, London Bridge, S.E.l.

jaissm/.WM* Oeneva, £ôh u th I0«4,

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enolonlng ooploB o f your vroekly notoe on the Oreek

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>. Baring B ro th e rs & Co. Gerald Miller


A l d w y c h , L o n do n , W .C .2

19th Mar.eh ,1924- - 'X .

Dear Major Johnson,

I wonderîT~yoü could let me have, say, 40 copies of the Report, G 91.M.30.1924.11., on the work of the Refugee Settlement Commission. I want this for my ^Council and for one or two people who are interested.

Thank you for your letter of the 12th instant telling me you have arranged for the publication of our Byron appeal in the Secretariat’s office. It is very good of you, and I hope something material will result. I am sorry to say that the response here to this special appeal has so far been disappointing.

Yours sincerely.

Secretary,

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APPALLING STORIES

GREEK REFUGEES.

B RITISH CUAItlTABI-K RI lLll il ' .

I M P E R I A L W A R(Registered under the Wi

R E L I E F F U N D / F T

H.M. THE KING

Messrs. Baring B ro the rs 4 Co. Gerald Millbr


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The Secretary of the Imperial War Relief Fund presents his compliments and has pleasure in enclosing a report of the meeting held at the Mansion House on Thursday last, the 8th May, which he is enabled to send by the kindness of the Proprietors of the Daily Telegraph.

He also encloses a copy of the leaflet which was distributed at the meeting.

12th May 1934.

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A re These Facts Realised?O

5 That out of the million refugees who poured into Greece in the autumn of 1922 there are still 500,000 Christians, living in squalor and desolation, hunger and exposure, to a degree unknown anywhere else in the world to-day.

5 That the League of Nations Refugee Settlement Commission is doing its utmost to settle them into permanent occupations with the funds at its command, but that THOSE FUNDS CANNOT BE USED FOR CHARITABLE RELIEF.

5 That private charity only can therefore now save the lives of many of these wretched people, until the Commission is in a position to settle them.

5 That more than 500,000 of the original million have already been setded or absorbed into the population of Greece, owing to the work of the League of Nations and of the Greek Government, which latter has spent over 900,000,000 drachmas on their relief, and is still doing its financial utmost to help them.

5 That in Salonica to-day the British Feeding centres are now the sole aid, as the Government and other organisations are unable to continue there.

5 That refugees, under the exchange of populations, are continually arriving from Turkey by boat and rail.

5 That 100,000 are waiting to come from the Black Sea, and 80,000 are expected from European Turkey.

5 That in spite of the fact that during the past eighteen months the British Relief Societies have given over 16,570,000 separate rations, THEY ARE ONLY ABLE TO RELIEVE LESS THAN ONE-TENTH OF THOSE IN DESPERATE NEED.

5 That it only costs One Penny Halfpenny to keep a refugee alive for one day.

We implore your helpDonations o f money, which are urgently needed, should be sent to the H on. T reasurer, IM PE R IA L W AR R E L IE F F U N D , G EN ERA L B U IL D IN G S , A LD W Y C H , W .C.2, which is co-operating w ith the Save the Children Fund in the All B ritish Appeal.

G ifts o f clothing should be sent to the Fund, care o f New Hibernia W harf, London Bridge,S .E .t.

(Refistertd under the War Charititt Act, 1916.)

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Gerald Miller

T e le g r a p h ic A d d re s s : ANTIFAM, ESTRAND, LOI

T e le p h o n e :CITY 5 21 4

Major T.F.Johnson League of Nations GENEVA.



1st July 1924.

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Dear Johnson,

You would be doing me a great favour If

you could arrange for forty copies of the Report

of the Refugee Settlement Commission In Greece

(Document G.2?4.M.87.1924) to "be sent to me for

distribution to my Council and others Interested.

Yours sincerely,

Secretary.

- A Geneva./yv-

July 5th, 19 4.

Dear Miller,

With refererioe t your letter of the 1st

July, ea'ing un to let you have forty ooplee of the

Report of the Refugee Settlement Ooinmlenlon, I have

pleaourr i; informing yo1 the the Document in question

hae now heon dé ;patohed.

Your:, aânocrely,

Aooiétant High Ogmmisaioner for Refugeoa*

Gerald Miller Keq,Imperial War Relief Fund,

General Build1nga,

Aldwyoh,london W.O.r.

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GORDON STREET,

Fi~m the Press and Publicity Department of the Ai: (Imperial v/ar Relief Fund and the Save the Chi!

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Weekly Notes - 93-

GREEK R3FUGE3 LOAN.

The following letter from the Greek Minister for Finance who is" j at present in London appeared in the Financial News of the 25th September: -

In connection with my statement which you were kind enough to publish iin your issue of Monday, for which I beg to tender my best thanks, a fev .•friends have asked me whether the conclusion of the Refugee Loan will ord | u." the means of extending ordinary relief to these poor victims of an appall-1 ing wholsesale expulsion from their homes.

I deem it necessary to state at once that there should be no confur ion |between establishment and relief, nor between mere installation and fullestablishment. j

In addition to the advances of £3,000,000 which it has hitherto obtain-* ed from the Bank of Bngland and the National Bank of Greece, the Greek St’te | has already spent in favour of the refugees about £5.000,000, whereof a sur- ; rtnntial sum has been defrayed in relief work. This amount wbuld have been even higher, but for the assistance rendered by charitable foreign societies |■ mon g which a leading role has been played by British organisations anr. in- ;otitutions, and I wish to mention here, in a very particular way, the Imperial ',7ar Relief Fund and the Save the Children Fund. Greece is deeply igrateful for this assistance, without which it is quite .certain that themisery and distress would havo been by far greater.

There are to-day in Greece about "1,000,000 homeless refugees. For their Installation a 'sum of over £8 ,0 0 0 , 0 0 0 will be noces^-ry; for their full establishment a sum much higher would be required. Jo expect, hov.'ovor : ■ that, following this installation by the State, the refugees themselves will 1 help out and complete thoir establishment by their own work.

In the meantime relief work for theso unfortunate beings, who hcivu tc pass a third winter without a fixed roof, is absolutely indispensable. The | State will contribute out of its own Budget, and quite independently from th.- loan, what it can afford. It is estimated that for the current year a 9sum of £600,000 will bo expended. I havo no doubt that internationalcharity, and pre-eminently British philanthropy, which always takes a load- BIns part in such circumstances, will continue their superb v/ork of human solidarity and self-help by giving all possible relief to theso unfortun : multitudes of sufferers. Yours etc. Em. J. TS0UD3RCS.

The statement M. Tsoudorcs refers to in as follows"The League Council has granted its approval to the increase of the

amount of the international loan for the refugees from Asia Minor from£6,000,000 to £10,000,000.....77o arc entitled to issue £10,000,000 cither |all at onco or in instalments, and we intend to float, for the timo being,an instalment of £8 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0....

The loan will be taken up in several countries, but presumably iJ.. -'11'M be issued with the intermodiary of a British banking group. As to the d a t e I cf the loan, it would bo premature to make any definite statement, but It is I ixpoctod to be floated within about two months.

Up to the present the financing of refugee settlement has absorbed £8,000,000, of which £5,000,000 has boon supplied by the Greek Treasury. £2,000,000 by the Bank of England and £1,000,000 Yu .3 been -ranted recently - 1

of Greecc. This latter amount will cover the require- 1-lents until tho issue of the loan has taken placo."

Donations of money for the’SJ refugees should bo addressed to Sir Llaurlc,■ - K. C. • ho ... All A !o. G Lon 3

G o rd o n Square, Ï/.C.1. , a n d r.iftr, c. clothin- arterial etc. should be n o n i t o A ■ ■' V: . , Loi . ;■ , S.E.l.

Telegraphic Address

Major T. F. Johnson, League of Nations, Geneva,Switzerland.

26, G o r don Street,

G o rdon Squ are, W.C

4th October 1924.

COPYRECEIVED IN

R2GSSTRY

Dear Major Jonnson,

I wonder if you would be so good as to let me have 20 copies of the League of Nations Report No. A.30. 1923. 12. These are asked for by our Manchester Committee, and if you could let me have them^ould, I know, be put to good use.

Yours sincerely,

Secretary.

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From the Press and Publicity department of the All British Anneal.(Imperial War Relief Fund and the Save the Children Fund).

Weekly Notes - 94. 6th October 1924.

NEW LEAFLET:

Attached is a speclmon of a new leaflet "Are These Facts realised?" (No. 2) Just issued by the Save the Children Fund, copies of which will gladly be sent upon request to the- above address. If you require a supply, please specify (No.2).

AN INDEPENDENT TESTIMONY.

The following telegram dated from Athens the 29th September has been received from a lady who was the Secretary of Lady Forrter1r Fund for Stricken Europe.

Just returned throe weeks inspection tour Macedonia

Salonica Athens condition refugees indescribable saw thousands

shelterless suffering malaria eye skin diseases following

widespread insanitary conditions 170,000 additional refugees

due by December no housing accommodation available Impossible

settle before spring Severity winter will aggravate suffering

unless further relief soon forthcoming SCF kitchens feeding

40,000 found them efficiently economically managed increased

feeding large quantities clothing blankets medical supplies

urgently needed immediately Personally convinced'conditions

largely due unsound economic basis treaty providing for exchange

populations Think heavy obligation or. signatories treaty assist

mitigating undeserved suffering of victims longstanding

international problem.

ü OTû : As the Imperial War Relief Fund's Autumn appeal is beingissued on the 13th instant, the next number of those notes will be sent out on the 20th instant.

Donations of money should bo addressed tc Sir M' urlce Bonham Carter ur tis:i Appeal, 26, Gordon Street, Gordon Squ-re, WrC.l.

■ ■ c ’ ‘ ! ■; . ' : ■ . t.h All r >, -,Api al, N Vfiv rf, London :?rV; ■ , J. .

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A re these Facts Realised ?

T hat out of the million refugees who poured into Greece in the Autumn of 1922 there are still 500,000 living in squalor and destitution,

hunger and exposure, to a degree unknown anywhere in the world to-day.

T hat to this 500,000 a further 200,000 are being added by daily arrivals of new refugees under the Exchange of Populations in no better state than were their predecessors.

T hat although the League of Nations Refugee Settlement, Commioai»» - ia doing its utmost to settle them into productive

occupation with money advanced on, and to be raised by, an international loan, those funds cannot be used for charitable relief, and therefore for m any m onths private charity only can n o w save the lives o f m any thousands o f these wretched people.T hat in spite of the fact that the British Relief Societies have given over 21,500,000 rations (of which 13,000,000 were for children), they are only in a position to feed less than on e tenth of those in desperate need.

T hat these are the present conditions, as revealed in recent telegrams from Greece :

" C ondition Chalkis refugees critical. Starvation and s ickness ram pant. C hildren m ere sk e le to n s , all ragged and living in ruined barracks, w arehouses and tents.”

“ M alaria very p revalen t a n d still increasing. M any m em bers of our ow n personnel laid up.”

“ M uch sickness am ong refugees now arriving a t Sorovitch. Nights a lready cold, and great n eed b lankets for sick refugees in tents.

“ Situation Salonica daily m ore serious. 8 ,0 0 0 n e w arrivals at p resen t o n b ea ch a t M ikra quaran tine station."

“ E ye d isease very p revalen t am ong children w ho are also em aciated and badly clothed."

“ O f 170,000 refugees still to arrive, 1 2 0 ,0 0 0 w ill rem ain at S a lon ica in ten ts for th e winter."

T hat it only costs one - penny - halfpenny to keep a refugee alive for a day.

T hat for the sum of £5 five refugee children can be fed for four months.

WE IMPLORE YOUR HELP

t i l lA L I, R B L IÉ F A D M IN IS T E R E D FR O M B R IT IS H K IT C H E N S U N D E R * - t i l E SU P E R V IS IO N . O F BR1Ÿ1SH W OR KER S .

T h e A rchbishop o f C ante rbury i " I trust that your forceful a p pea l. . . . may result in such substantial aid as may really alleviate the sufferings of these unhappy people.”

V iscount Cecil t “ It is the stark appeal, from a depth of hopelessness and suffering well-nigh impossible to envisage, of one fellow-being to another. . . . The distress and suffering is as great as ever it has been, and the need for charity perhaps more acute with every month that passes.

T h e Bishop of L o ndon i “ Their destitution is almost beyond imagining ; their agony of mind and distress of spirit appall ing. . . . It has astonished me that for the sum of five

Eounds a family of normal size can e kept alive for four months by the

careful and economical administration of the British funds."

Bishop G ore t “ I am sure that no more worthy and no more urgent an appeal is being made than this, for the reason that there is no greater mass of suffering and distress in the world."

T h e L ord M ayor of L on do n(in 1922) : “ If a man, woman or child came starving to your door in even a tenth of the tattered and hollowcheeked distress of these refugees, you would not have the heart to turn them away. Does it cost so very much more trouble to put a donation in the post ? "

Heads of th e Scottish C hu rches t“ The fact that the sufferings of the refugees are largely the penalty of their Christian faith adds to the claim of their sheer need upon all Christian

D r. F r id t jo f N ansen i “ I appeal to you to show these helpless victims that the charity of Christ still lives.”

W H E N Y O U H A V E R E A D — A N D R E S P O N D E D T O - T H 1 S A P P E A L , P L E A S E PA SS I T O N . . T O A F R IE N D .

D onations of m oney, which are m ost urgently needed, should be sen t to T H E D U K E O F A T H O L L , S a v e th e C hildren F und , 2 6 G o rd o n S treet, G o rd o n Square, L o n d o n , W .C .I ., which is co-operating w ith th e Im perial W ar Relief F und in th e All-British A ppeal. C heques an d postal o rders should be crossed " W estm inster Bank Ltd., G rea t Po rtland Street Branch.” G ifts of clothing and b lankets should be addressed to the S ave the C hildren Fund, c/o M essrs. D avies T urner & Co., Shortt’s G ardens, Drury L ane, London, W .C .2.

(Registered under the W ar Charities Act, 1916)

REMITTANCE FORM

T o the Hon. Treasurer,Imperial W a r Relief Fund,

26, Gordon Street, 1924

Gordon Square, W .C .l.

fnr f ■ s. d. towards the work of the I enclose_______________ — ------ Ior *

Imperial W a r Relief Fund among the refugees in Greece.

Cheques or Postal Orders NAME----should be made payable (Mr.. Mrs.. Mi»» or Title)to the IMPERIAL W A RR E L I E F F U N D , and ADDRESS --------------- --------------------------------crossed “ Baring Bros.

w i l lYOU NO t OPEN

THE DOOR

'T W O years ago a million refugees swarmed into

Greece as a result ol the Turko-Greek war. Ol these, about 500.000 have become settled through the efforts of the Greek Government, the Relief Societies and the

remaining wu.uuu arc suu destitute, and their numbers are being swelled by a furtherinflux ol 180,000 Irom Constantinople and Asia Minor under the Exchange ol Populations.

Photograph of Greet Ksfugftt

There are, therefore still about 700,000 dependent on charity. These also it is hoped to settle into productive occupation by an international loan . but for many months the burden must be carried by the charitably - minded, since the loan cannot be used lor emergency relief. The British people have been feeding 40,000 of these people since 1922. It is unthinkable that this support should be withdrawn when the need is

THESE IMPLORE YOUR HELP

I. RELIEF OOODS ARK SENT TO <iRKF.CE DUTY

SEND YOUR HF.I.P NOW- BEFORE IT IS TOO l.ATE. lid. A DAY WILL SAVE A

TH E coming m onths will bring the direst distress to the refugees in Greece. A lready w eakened b y tw o years'

sufferings, the im m edia te future will put a n unendurable strain upon them. Hungry, they arc without proper shelter ; ragged, th ey arc a n easy prey to the d rea d ed mala ria . O ld people must die for w an t of succour ; babies must succum b becausc their starved a n d harassed mothers h ave not the strength to feed them. W ill y ou n o t he lp them to live ?

T H E LIV ES OF M A N Y A R E IN YO U R H A N D Si family of five for f

ALL RELIEF ADMINISTERED FROM BRITISH KITCHENS UNDER THE SUPERVISION . OF BRITISH WORKERS .

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LLT OPEN DOOR

THESE IMPLOREYOUR HELP

Geneva, Ootober 7th 1984.

t~NDear Ur. M l U e j r ,

I have lxw*rorfced our Distribution

Branoh to aend you the dooœaonts aokeâ for In

your lottor of Outobor 4th.

-he modified protocol will tie sont to

you immédiatoly it la ready,

Youra atnoeroly,

Aoalstemt High Coiimiaaionor for ..efugtiea.

Gerald ..iller. tiOQ.,I iperlal Wsr Heliof L'und,

2ô, Gordon stroet,Gordon Square,

London, W*0# I,

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I M P E R I A L W A R R E L I E F F U N D W ~Registered under the War Charities Act, 1 '

Messrs. Baring Brothers ft Co.

T elegraphic Address :

.ANTIPAM. EUSROAD, LONDON. TELEPHONE :

MUSEUM 5204 X 26, G o r don Street,

G o rdon Squ are, W.C.l

Major T.P.Johnson,High Commission for Refugees League of Nations. GENEVA.

Dear Hohnson,

11th October 1924.

Thank you very much for the Assembly documents and the copies of Nansen’s report asked for, which have safely arrived this morning.

I should be very grateful if 25 copies of each of the following could be sent to me for circulation to my Committee:

A. 94. 1924. II.

A. Ill. 1924. II.

C.458. :. 167.1924.M .

Yours sincerely,

Secretary.

m jvi*4 [tîîïr

I M P E R I A L W A R R E L I E F F U N D ^ 7 “Registered under the War Charities

A ssociated w ith th e Save th e Child ren F und a nd the Friends* Re lie f Co m m ittee in the All-British Appeal

Patron . . . . H.M. THE KING

T elegraphic Address :

r i S S g & l J SR0AD- «-ON.M.N.

MUSEUM 5204

Major T. F.

League of Natiol Geneva, Switzerland

î "X 26, G o r don Street,

G o r don Sq u ar e, W.C.l

V,9 a »- . c X y 13th October 1924.

Dear Johnson,

You may be interested to see the enclosed

copy of a circular appeal which is being sent out by

us to-day.

Yours sincerely,

(h-suXlAiJJLcLyj K Secretary.

Encl.

iDl i f

IMPERIAL WAR RELIEF FUND.

28. GORDON STREET.

GORDON SQUARE,

LONDON. W.C.1

13th October, 1924.

Dear Sir,

Last Easter I appealed for the relief of the refugees in Greece in the hope that my appeal would be the last for that object.

Unhappily the loan for their permanent settlement has not, for various reasons, yet materialised, while their present condition has been worsened by a further influx under the Exchange of Populations. The general situation is serious in the extreme ; the individual suffering is appalling » and I fear that some months must yet* elapse before the weight of this regrettable burden can be removed from the shoulders of the charitably-disposed.

The enclosed leaflet, which has been prepared by my Society, speaks for itself. The British record of relief is one that will not, I am sure, be dimmed by a lack of adequate response at such a critical time - I do most sincerely ask you to consider what help you can give us in this terrible contingency.

Yours faithfully,

Cju-U.President of the Council.

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Genevr-, ootiober 16th 1924#

My dear Miller, jSI have asked our Uistrloution Branch

to send you the documenta naked for In your

letter of October Ilth, and hope they will reach

you aafely#

Youre alncerely.

Assistant High Commissioner for dei'ageea#

Gerald Miller, ttsq.,ial WtiiImperial W<*r Relief :’and,

26, Gordon Street,Gordon Squnr®,

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From the Press and Publicity Department or^tix^ All British Appeal.(Imperial War Relief Fund and the Save tho/Children Fund).

Weekly Notes - 9 5 . 20th October 1Ç24.

WORSE THAN LAST YEAR.

The following telegram has been received from Dr.

Kennedy. It was dated from Athens the 14th October-

,rThe refugee situation in Greece is daily becoming more acute. It is hopeless to expect any amelioration of the conditions without greatly increasing our help. Refugees continue to arrive in a deplorable state, their influx blocking the SaIonlea and Piraeus camps. There is no means of dealing with the constantly recurring groups of refugees in transit whoso condition is desperate. I shall keep within my appropriation with the greatest difficulty by ignoring people bogging for food, shelter and clothing.Tho weather is already causing suffering to thoso camped in tho open with no protection.There is no money available for tents or blankets.Can you help us as ov/ing to tho exhaustion of resources and the additional impoverishment of the refugees tho situation this winter is worso than last year.”

Donations should be sent to Sir Maurice Bonham Carter, K.C.B.,

tho Hon. Treasurer, All British Appeal, 26, Gordon Stroot,

London, W. C. 1.

Gifts of clothing and blankets should bo addressed to tho All

British Appeal, Now Hibernia Wharf, London Bridge, S. E. 1.

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