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Show BRINGING THE GENTRY'S TABLET TO THE HOSPITAL In the background is the gatehouse to the hospital grounds. The central tablet is being carried in a sedan chair; the others are on the shoulders of the bearers. On the highway outside and looking over the walls are some of the 25,000 who went through the gatehouse on this special day floods, the worst in forty years, which descended upon Tehchow in July, delayed the completion of some of the new wards, as there were thirteen inches of water on the first floors of the buildings, with the hospital compound a muddy ocean. Fortunately, the floors are of cement, and beyond spoiled plaster and some warped woodwork no serious damage was done. A message written in the early autumn reported not only an "open" hospital, but ten branch dispensaries "open" also in as many important centers. THE PORT SAID REFUGEES MR. STEPHEN TROWBRIDGE, Sunday school missionary at Cairo, has put into English the thrilling story told by the young Armenian pastor, Dikran Andreasian, of the "Red Cross Flag That Saved Four Thousand"-that is, of the flight of the people of six villages on the slopes of Mousa Dagh (Mt. Moses), near old Antioch, to the top of their mountain, which is on the coast; of their six weeks' stay there in state of siege by Turks; of their device to attract the attention of battleships, and of their final removal to Port Said. Our frontispiece gives some idea of the camp at Port Said in which they are now located, and we print herewith a few paragraphs from the marvelous tale. Mr. Andreasian, as pastor of the Armenian church at Zeitoon, had been started with the rest of the Armenian population on the southward road. When they reached Marash the American missionaries succeeded in getting permission for him to return to his home village, not far from Antioch. Soon after he reached Mousa Dagh, the six villages thereon were ordered to prepare for deportation in seven days. Some of the villagers decided it was of no use to resist, and went down to Antioch under Turkish guards. The others went up to the heights of Mousa Dagh, carrying food, arms, and such tools as they had, and driving their flocks of sheep and goats. "The summons from the government had been served July 30. On August 5 the attack began. The Turkish advance guard was 200 regulars, and their captain insolently boasted |
