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Show 30 The Missionary Herald January were strapped to the sides of donkeys. Babies lay dead in the road. Human life was thrown away everywhere.' Desperate Choices "Another man on the train said that in one train he was in the mothers begged him to take their children, to save them from such a death. He said that an Armenian, a leading business man in , told him that he would rather kill his four daughters with his own hand than see the Turks take them from him. This Armenian was made to leave his home, his business, and all he had, and started off with his family to walk to whatever place the Turks desired to exile him. "When we reached a station near Constantinople we met a long train of Armenians that had just been exiled from . "Some of our party talked with one of the native teachers from the American school. Among other things he said that an old man was walking in the street when the order came to leave. The old man was deaf and did not understand what was going on. Because he made no move to leave the town, the soldiers shot him down in the street. The teacher said he could buy no food, as the soldiers kept them from buying any. "The crying of those babies and little children for food is still ringing in my ears. On every train we met we heard the same heartrending cries of little children." * The School Situation From various sources we learn of the opening of the Board's mission schools within a few days of their usual dates. Dr. Chambers, of Adana, refers to the necessity of receiving only the former pupils, but says that 150 girls were in the school when he left Adana. In the Orient of October 13, the International College at Smyrna is reported to have opened with 106 students. The girls' school in Smyrna at the same date had 180 pupils. At Talas, the boys' school numbered sixty pupils and the girls' school welcomed 125. St. Paul's College, at Tarsus, opened September 22. At the end of the first three weeks eighty-seven students were in attendance and the faculty numbered eight. Anatolia College, Marsovan, according to a letter of October 11, had fifty students, with eight teachers back; and the Marsovan Girls' School had about the same enrollment. The Gedik Pasha School for Girls numbered about 192 day scholars, the American College for Girls had 180 students, and Robert College 380. At Brousa, the boarding department of the school for girls did not open, but day pupils were received. * After Three Massacres and a Deportation The party of American Board missionaries which arrived in New York by the Greek steamer Themistocles, late in November, was led by Rev. William Nesbitt Chambers, D.D., of Adana. Being of Canadian citizenship, Dr. Chambers was not unhampered in his movements in Turkey, so was chosen to head the party which was coming home from Adana and Tarsus. During his thirty-six years' service in Turkey, Dr. Chambers has seen the massacres of 1895 and 1896, and the yet fiercer and more cruel one of 1909; and did not leave Adana this fall until after the "Great Drive" of September 7, when from 15,000 to 18,000 Armenians were swept out of the city on the southwestern road. On the day after the "drive," the market and business part of the city was closed and deserted; the business men were among the deported. The government soon took possession of the stores and stocks of goods, and in some cases of the money in banks, giving out word that taxes would be settled and debts paid, and "if any remained" it would be kept safe. The American School for Girls opened its sessions, and had succeeded, up to the time Dr. Chambers left, in protecting |