SUFFERING IN EASTERN TURKEY.
THE following extract from a circular of the National Armenia and India Relief Association will be of interest to many readers: Reliable information received from Dr. Norton, the U. S. Consul at Harpout, who, under the direction of the government at Washington, visited the Sassun region and has just rendered his report, gives these facts: Small bands of Russian and Persian revolutionists enter a town and barricade themselves. The Turks, irritated by their presence, order the indiscriminate killing of Christians, and thousands of helpless women and children, deprived of their husbands and fathers, plundered and burned out of their homes, appeal to Christendom for aid. The Turkish Government announces that aid is being given, and for a very short time distributes a cent a day for each individual, and then leaves them to starve. The consul says, "Their case is one appealing most strongly to the sympathies of the benevolent." Persons disposed to contribute funds for this cause should forward to Brown Bros. & Co., 59 Wall Street, New York City.