THE NEAR EAST.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1922, Page 3

THE NEAR EAST.

nEUTF.n’a telegrams. • NEAR HAST BELIEF. fUrccivcd tlii« dnv at 9.-T0 am.) LONDON, Nov 1!>. Doctor Bu't, International Commissioner j of tin 1 Nenr Lust Relief lodoinlion. who has arrived from Atliphs. cm route for New York, states two shiploads of food and clothing from Australasia- saved thousands ol lives horn perishing. The refugees paid a tribute to Australians and New Zealanders as ulnongst the most generous people in the world. The Federation is co-opera-ting with the London Lord Mayor's fund in administering 229 orphanages (outaining over 100,000 orphans. I*6tween fifty and one hundred thousand Creek refugees arc encamped without shelter in Athens and Pireuus, mostly women and children. About one third are threatened with death from cold and starvation. He appealed to Australia. and New Zealand to continue relief shipments, because another million Christian refugees probably will lie homeless in the coming winter. Kent a I Pasha, having decreed the explosion ol all Christians from Asia Minor before th- end ol the vear. Lie expected the arrival of a .number of Australasian officials, including Rev. Robertson Orr of Wellington, which would ensuve the Australasian administration of Australasian relief shipments. Dr But estimates there art about 10.000 eligible immigrants, between the ages ol M ~nd 10 among the orphans. He intends to ask the American Governn.w.t to permit the settlement of some thousands there, and v.. also appeal to the Dominions to <xUn<l these orphans the same facilities as artaccorded to Barnardo orphans.