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AMERICAN GIRLS IN NEAR EAST TOO MUCH FOR TURK ' i L iThat the lightness of the Business j Car is united to great strength ; is proven by the splendid service it is rendering everywhere under I widely varying conditions. j The lightness of the car keeps the gas and oil costs down, and its sound construction renders repairs infrequent. W. D.. MacMillan, Jr., 105-107 N. Second Street Telephone No. 2103 WILMINGTON, N. C. Defend Their Relief Stations Against Armed Brigands, Driving Off the Looters With WhipsBig Burly Kurds, the Most Ferocious of AH Near East Tribes men, Driven Off in Rout NEW YORK, Jan.' 29 Dramatic and humorous, experiences are described in the1 stories just received here from three American-grirls who protected the Armenian orphanages in Kars, Arme nia, when the xurKisn iroons capiui-j d that city in October last. The American yoimg women not only had to calm the panic-stricken orphans but to fight off Armenian refugees who f wanted to hide in the orphanages and Turkish soldiers bent on looting the buildings. One of the girls, Miss Elsie M. Kimball, of Mt. Vernon, N. T., put to rout a group of about 20 Turks who were attempting to steal the blankets from the childrens' beds. She attacked them with a whip and being unarmed they fled. Her two companions were Miss Cora L. Beach, of bgdensburg,' X. Y., and Miss Frances Anderson of New Canaan, Conn. All three were workers for the near east relief which conducts the orphanages. Miss Kimball tells in her letter of the panicky situation which existed in Kars when the Armenian defense col lapsed and word was received that the Turks were coming in. "Just imag ine," she writes, "A great mass of 1,000 women, and children huddled together in uncontrolable fear, momentarily ex pected to be massacred by a conquer ing army with absolutely no possibil ity of eacaoA from what they had every reason to believe would be certain death." Miss Kimball had just,managed to quiet them when the Turks arrived at the door of, the orphanages-three vicious looking soldiers. "I ran to them and explained through the interpreter that I was an American woman and this was an American orphanage. Two of the fel lows who were evidently bent on mis chief started toward the building; where (he children were gathered. I 'snatched the arm of the other fellow and begged him to protect the children. Immediately he ran aftej- the two sol liers and dealt them ferocious blows with his heavy whip and his gun, curs ing them all the way to the gate. They w ere loath to go. but he whipped them ;lear out of sight and I thanked him for his help. Then came more soldiers h iid I. repeated my speeches until I was, about worn out when along came a line looking Turkish officer. I explain ed the situation to him and asked that Turkish guards be placed at our gates and. he put two of his men on guard to police the place. The guards drove back all would Ue invaders vigorously and merciless ly with the butts of their guns, their lists and the toes of their shoes. Many of the fellows who came through our grounds from the open field in the back were the wildest looking indi viduals' this - wild country could possi bly produce, and believe me. it pro duces some mighty evil specimens of humanity and in generous quantities. The most treacherous of all are the Kurds, the boldest and most blood thirsty and most ruthless tribe in the near east. The Turkish guards had their hands full in pushing them back. They regarded me with great curiosity, never having seen an American and my goggles interested them exceed ingly. - "The shooting went on all day, nut probably not over S00 people were kill ed altogether in the city and the val ley. 6nce when I was standing near the gate a shot struck within a few feet of. me. It was the closest shave I had that day, though other shots were flying all around. "In making my rounds of the four buildings, I found a Turk rifling one of the rooms of blankets. I yelled at him to 'get out of here qui&k. Heidy.' and to my surprise he jumped through the window like a shot, leaving his loot behind. I had not expected such quick action for I was alone and he was a big, burly man." little later another Turkisn soldier held up Miss Kimball at the point oi iis rifle and compelled her to give him a blanket. "Cora (Miss Beach) was the only A.merican in one of the other orphan age buildings last night with bands of Turks knocking at the. door at :nter vals and prowling about for loot. One rough Kurd took hold of her and said 'gel' (come) but she made him 'gel' instead." Miss Kimball was hastily summoned to the orphanage on one occasion by the announcement that a lot of Turks were trying to drag out through the windows the blankets from the beds of the orphans. "I grabbed my whip and started out for more trouble." she writes. "Sure enough, there was a gang of about 20 Turks, one at each window, reaching through for blan kets. I. was alone. I yelled myself hoarse with 'heideys and other things and made a dramatic dash at them with my whip flourishing in the air. Who would have thought they would have paid the least bit of Attention to me. All but one of them made a get away, some speedily, some reluctantly, but the one kept pulling away at the blanket f while one of the personel clung to the other end of it. The Turk was getting the upper han4 when ' I came at him with the lash right where he ought to be lashed and he gave up the struggle and joined his fellows over the fence. That incident was the most amusing of any that occurred just to see those looters run away from a woman. "Cora had the" nerve to reuse to give up her diamond ring to a loojer who came to her orphanage the first night. She just walked around his gun as cool as you please and still-has her ring." SOCIALISTS ARE AT ODDS OVER PROGRAM OF LENINE li. nt d-t i j t ' T T 1 a ni . ml 1 ms conaiuons L&m uown as jrreceaeni io n.mrance 10 inira Internationale of Moscow Not Approved in AH Countries In Some Countries His Regime Is Denounced as "Barabaric Terrorist" NEW TOKK. Jan. 23. Nieolai Le-nim-'s ultimatum to the socialists of the world, giving them t'hfi "21 condi tions" to which they must ascribe be fore they can be received into the third or communist Internationale of Mos cow, ha3 met with widespread, if . in many cfattes negative, response. It In dicates a decided split in the ranks of the socialist party in many countries, judging by reports from abroad. Lenine demanded, among other things, that socialist organizations must purge themselves of all moder ates, defy all national laws, under mine armifs, sraln control of the press, throw off the allied "yoke," promote a world economic crisis, condemn any lague of nations, aid the soviet gov ernment and abandon for the hlood'and fire of "red revolution" all conservative social democratic programs. Action on the bolshevik dictator's has been taken as follows: , United States National executive committee of socialist party in refus ing to recommend affiliation said: "We concede to the Russian comrades the right to formulate their own Internal policies without interference from any other section of the working class movement of the world. What we con cede to them we claim for ourselves. Kvcry resolution adopted by our party implies or claims this right for the American movement." fEngland Leaders of British labor party and trades union congress, in appeal to the socialist and communist parties of world urge efforts to "re constitute the Internationale on a non sectional basis." Italy Executive committee of Ttal hin socialist party voted to adhere to the Internationale principles and ap pealed to Lenine for aid but he warn ed them they must first eliminate the reformist or conservative element. At the convention of the Italian socialist party at Leghorn, however, the motion for affiliation with the Moscow organ isation was defeated by a -large ma jority. The communist element of the party then quit the convention and formed the Italian communist party. Germany Independent socialists, at a conference in Halle In October, voted to adhere to the third internationale program, the vote being 237 to 156. flreat disorder marked the session and a number of delegates bolted the con ference. A month previously "indepen dent socialists at a convention in Ber lin went on record against bolshcvism France Socialists split into three factions following convention ' at Tours on December 29 at which a motion by 'trie-left wing to join the third inter nationale without reservations receiv ed 3,208 votes, winning by a large ma jority. The central and riarht ermin oppose the elimination of conservative! leaders. Spain Socialist congress voted in favor of the bolshevist program last June but no definite action was taken until September when Marcellno Do mingo ,and his followers pledged "ad herence to Lenine and his rule of the pr'oleterlat. -' - Switzerland Executive committee of t lie Swiss socialist party refused alle giance to toe lenine program. The party approved the' committee's stand but a split followed over the question of joining the third Internationale. Chile A socialist party referendum r6sult$dln majority ;of socialists reg- istering their approval of the Moscow dictatorship but a small minority op poses adherence to Lenine. Argentine Delegates to the national socialist convention on January in, by a vote -in the ratio of three to one. re jected a proposal to accept Lenine's terms and decided not to send envoys to Russia to study sovietism. Sweden Extreme socialists and la borites favor world revolution. Inde pendent socialists in 1919 voted to join the third internationale. Norway Resolutions advocating re ation of a revolutionary regime based on the soviet system were passed at the last socialist congress. Scandina vian workers' congress in session at Copenhagen, however, by a vote of 385 to 15. rejected the Norwegian socialist proposal to enter the Moscow Interna tionale and denounced what It charac terized as Lenine's "'barbaric terrorist regime." Holland Dutch socialists in confer ence on October 27 decided to defer action on the Lenine ultimatum. Belgium Socialists rejected over tures of third Internationale leaders and declared their purpose o" preserv ing independence of action. Austria Extreme socialists after accepting membership in the third In ternationale broke off relations with Moscow on November 8, the social democrats passing resolutions . con demning the Lenine-Trotzky regime as designed to '.'disrupt trade unionism." Mexico "Communist congress of the Mexican proletariat" in Mexico City on September 19 ended in disorder when pians wrre started for the organization of the fourth internationals Pni.h.. vism previously had been indorsed by "ine oi ine speakers. Radicalism re ported spreading in Yucatan where property f opponents nf hniahAviim has been dynamited. The Baltic state S went on rtknisr-A against sovietism whon the social dem ocratic congress at Riga on December 18-20 rejected adherence to the Moscow program by a larffe majority. While the socialists of Strasburg voted ad herence to Lenine, the French agricul tural federation 'announced It would expel all those who pledged allegiance to mm. No official expression of opinion on. the Lenine ultimatum ho a mn m lhovn made by socialist or communist bodies'! in tne lonowmg countries: Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Portugal. .China, Japan, Colombia, Venezuela or reru. Tfm k Gnaiio 757 7--5 5 753 . 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