ALEPPO

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 151, 30 June 1928, Page 15

ALEPPO

i'"More exeitingithan a story-book" ':|tfould be a true ■ description,.of a piece "c£ work done through the aid of the 1 lieagua of Nations. ' : k It is a story of lost children finding •homes, of small boys:saved from sla-v----rijery, of young, girls rescued from degradation, of imprisoned women set free. ;; The story is laid in Aleppo, in Syria. fThore, for more than five years, has ;i|been a League of Nations house, set up fend kept going "bj the League with the' ijfull support and sympathy of the iFrench authorities, who administer this, j^nandated territory. , ■■'■':■' . ' '■ '■'•■•'■ ■■ ■ When the house was ; first brought; •;fnto use, sqven long years had passed .■:£ince these poor people, the Christians' jof Atmenia^ had been deported - from yjthoir own country into'the land of the .IJMoslems. -Though a great number had -■[become xesigned to their hard.fate and. i-jhad settled down, many of them just" :j«tayod where they were, friendless and Unhappy, either becausVthey were kept. j)by force oi because tliey believed'that "jull their own people were dead and (that there ivas no place to which1 to ■feo.-. ■ .■■;•.■•. ••, • ■ ■.■■■ ■■• ■ .;' Then there filtered through to them ,'jthe wonderful news that there was at; .last, in Aieppo, a haven of security, yjwhere thoy : could find protection from pursuers and a home where they could vbe cared for until they could either 'get into touch' with their own relatives jor take care of thomselyes. No persuasion was 'used to entice jHiom.aw.ay. They had to .decide for themselves whether they .would leave ithe houses where they: were detained Sor not, and they often ran a considerable risk in doing so. But, the first •tßtep taken, they know that they had ,t riends ito .help them on, friends whom they could-trust.and by whom they Beyer be abandoned. ,\ ';.„ No attempt was made to break up 'friendly relations or to disturb family ;;li£o where thoy had been treated kindly. Only thise were rescued who could • siot adapt themselves to their alien suri.roundings and so wero profoundly un:'iappy and disheartened. ,' "This," says the Danish lady who ■las been the guiding spirit of the work, ;'.*' accounts for the comparatively small »;iiuinber rescued." v But more, than 1600 people have been "jrescued^bne f6r' every week-day of Jhose five lyoars! . .'.' . . •