The Red Cross : in peace and war . yrna and a small station near Merisine on the Mediterranean, andConstantinople on the Bosporus. The following are inland and curing several months in the winterand spring must be nearly, if not quite, inaccessible to outside approach:Adabazar, Bardezag, Brousa, Cesarea, Marsovan, Hadjin, Tarsus,Adana, Mardin, Aintab, Marash, Sivas, Harpoot, Oorfa, Erzingan,Erzroom, Van, Bitlis, Funds. It should be distinctly understood by contributors that neithertheir letters, nor any individual contributions came to us; these werereceived by the committees or parties raisin
The Red Cross : in peace and war . yrna and a small station near Merisine on the Mediterranean, andConstantinople on the Bosporus. The following are inland and curing several months in the winterand spring must be nearly, if not quite, inaccessible to outside approach:Adabazar, Bardezag, Brousa, Cesarea, Marsovan, Hadjin, Tarsus,Adana, Mardin, Aintab, Marash, Sivas, Harpoot, Oorfa, Erzingan,Erzroom, Van, Bitlis, Funds. It should be distinctly understood by contributors that neithertheir letters, nor any individual contributions came to us; these werereceived by the committees or parties raising the funds in America. 3o8 THE RKI) CROSS. The letters were doubtless faithfully acknowledged, and the varioussums of money placed in the general fund forwarded to us by contributions received by us directly at Constantinople are acknowl-edged in our report. Although an account of the disposition of all funds is rendered inthe report of the financial secretary, which, after verification, I signed A^/ ^^SMsS ? < M I,. INTERIOR OF GREGORIAN CHTTRCH AT OORFA, WHERE MANY HTJNDREDSOK WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE MASSACRED. jointly -with him, I will, however, at the risk of repetition, take theliberty of adding the following remarks on the subject; It is to be borne always in mi: 1 that the amount of money to bedistributed was never made a concern of ours, provided they wereactually funds to distributed To the question so frequently andkindly asked of us, Did you have money enough, or were you embar-rassed in your operations by want of funds? I beg to have this replyintelligently understood: that we had always money enough in handfor the work in hand. We were never embarrassed in our operationsby lack of funds, holding, as I alwajS have, thnt charitable relief inorder to be safe and efficient, should be conducted on the same reason-
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