FAMINE IN PERSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 November 1918, Page 7

FAMINE IN PERSIA.

Horrible conditions of starvation in Teheran, and other Persian cities are pictured in a telegram to the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief from Mrs. Eva B'allis Douglas, who has just arrived from Persia. Mrs. Douglas returned to recuperate from typhus, with which her husband also was stricken and from which he died while they were administering aid to refugees driven out by the Turks. ‘ ‘ln Teheran and other cities,” her message reads, “men, women, and children are prostrated in the streets from exhaustion and are dying. In Hamadan the head's and arms of two children remained to tell the story of bodies that were probably eaten after they died from starvation. People gathered daily at slaughter houses with small vessels to collect blood as it flowed out of the trough. People were grazing in the fields like cattle. Children came to our rest houses with flesh hanging on bones like rags, voice gone, but eyes pleading and imploring for a crust. The memory of their emaciated bodies shall remain for ever with me.”