TURKISH REFUGEES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1609, 28 November 1912, Page 5

TURKISH REFUGEES.

200,000 PERSONS HOMELESS. . (Rcc. November 28, 0.5 a.m!) Constantinople, November 27. Sir Adam Block, the British financier at Constantinople,'has appealed for funds for the Turkish refugees. He gives a pitiable account, and states that two hundred thousand persons, including barefooted women carrying infants, are tramping the country. Throe doctors belonging to tho British Red Cross are working nt tho San Stefnno cholera camp. The mortality is decreas-

| ing, and the oholera is not of the most malignant form. Herr Buoveller, a German war correspondent, is the first European to dio of cholera. AT THE CHOLERA CAMP. FOREIGN AID. Constantinople, November 26. Surgeon-Major Philip, who was one of Colonel Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, failing to get tho Foreign Red Crescent Society to undertake work at the San Stefano cholera camp, has formal a small body of volunteers to assist Miss Alt, tho English lady who began work without waiting -for others. The Rev. Mr. Frew, a Scottish clergyman, has joined tho band. Several Turkish Red Crescent doctors are now organising cholera camps. Vast shelters nro being erected. Three German war correspondents have been sent to hospital suffering from cholera. ■' The majority of tho dead hove been already buried in shallow trenches, and covered with quicklime. AEROPLANE SCOUTS. (Reo. November 27, 11.5 p.m.) Cohstatinople, November 27. Two Turkish aeroplanes are reconnoitring at Chatalja. TURKISH EXILES. London, November 26. Four hundred Young Turks have been exiled to Koni, Asia Minor. The police are. searching for a member of the Committee of Union and Progress who undertook to assassinate the Sultan and other prominent persons.