WOMEN SOLD FOR A CRUST.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 17 September 1917, Page 2

WOMEN SOLD FOR A CRUST.

Mr Edmund Candler, writing from Bagdad, quotes the diary of a Jew ambulance tvorker with the Turks: “There are a number of Armenian refugees here (Sabba, on the Euphrates); misery everywhere. How many infants without father or mother dying of hunger, lying exposed on the bare gorund without any covering or shelter from the cold. . . Others on their bed of death wait the cruel end. They are perishing of hunger. The women have no protection, while their husabnds are shot by hundreds on both banks of the Euphrates. Lying with no shelter and nothing to eat, they sell their honour for a morsel of bread.” This, adds Mr Candler, from the private diary of a Jew, one of a race generally antipathetic' to fh£ Armenians, may be read as impartial evidence.