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ARMENIA AND THE NEAR EAST
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through pretty quickly, and were allowed to go ashore. Only
the Jew and his wife were detained and had to remain on
board. He was even refused permission to speak to his
father, and could only shout to him from the deck. It was
a sad spectacle to see these two left forlornly behind as we went
ashore. True, they hoped to get permission to land, but
there were big tears in the lovely Jewess’s dark eyes. Why
these unfortunate people, who presumably could do no harm
whatever, were refused permission to land, it is difficult to
understand ; but it shows how the Turks avail themselves of
every pretext to keep all who are not Turks out of Turkey.
CONSTANTINOPLE AND REFUGEES.
An Armenian deputation arrived punctually at the hotel
in the afternoon. In addition to Armenians resident in
Constantinople, who had not fled when the Turks took over
the city in 1922, there were now 5,000 Armenian refugees.
These lived in camps outside the city, but many of them had
work. The problem of the moment was to send some
eight hundred of them to Armenia. The necessary visas
had been promised by the Armeno-Russian Government.
The first contingent, to the number of 350, was to go as soon
as these promised visas had been obtained. Nearly 11,000
dollars had been received from American sources to trans
port and otherwise assist these 800 refugees. The depu
tation wanted me to help to get the whole matter arranged.
And, of course, it would be a good thing if the remainder of
the 5,000 refugees could be transferred to Armenia as soon as
possible.
Tuesday, June yth.—The French boat we were going by was
not to leave till the following day, so I had time to see the
Russian refugees who had come from Varna in Bulgaria.
This affair is a tragedy. There are many Russian refugees in
Bulgaria, mostly from Wrangel’s defeated army, who first
came to Constantinople, some of them being afterwards
transferred by us to Bulgaria, where they could more easily
sret work. Some of them had returned thence to Russia.
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