PLIGHT OF REFUGEES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 4 October 1926, Page 5

PLIGHT OF REFUGEES

AMERICANS IN SYRIA. BAD CONDITIONS IN SYRIA INTREPTD WOMAN’S TOUR. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 10.40 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Oct. 3. A thrilling tour of Syria has been completed by Airs. Glanville, in order to get first-hand knowledge or the work of the American Relief Fund, of which she is the Australian secretary, though warned not to go. She was the only woman on the train. Entering the war zone beyond Aleppo, where, under an armed guard, she saw the meuance of some of Syria’s destitute. There were 80,000 whose conditions were even worse than in the refugees’ camp at Beirut, where children were crowded into packing ease houses and were dying like flies. There is no work for the refugees in the war zone, in which, owing to French censorship, she was led to believe all was peaceful, but she saw at Aleppo wire entanglements, trenches and where numerous railway stations had been burnt down. Most Syrians, she said, thought there should be a British mandate. She visited the Australian orphanage at Beirue, where one thousand boys were Learning trades.