MISERABLE ARMENIANS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIV, Issue 1, 4 October 1926, Page 5

MISERABLE ARMENIANS

AUSTRALIAN WOMAN'S VOYSSE OF IMSPECTfOK DREADFUL CONDITIONS IN SYRIA DISCLOSED (Received 9.10 a.m.) ( LONDON, October 3. A, thrilling tour of Syria has been completed by Mrs GlanVille to get firsthand knowledge of the- work of the Armenian Relief‘Fund, of which she is 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 xhetiace of some of Syria’s destitute eighty thousand Armenians. Conditions were even worse in the refugees’ camp at Beirut, where children, crowded into packing-case houses, were dying like flies. There was no work for the refugees in the war zone, in which, owing to the French censorship, she was led to believe that all was peaceful; but she saw at Aleppo wire entanglements, trenches and numerous railway stations burnt down. Most Syrians, she said, thought there should be a British mandate. She visited the Australian orphanage at Beirut, where a thousand boys were learning trades.