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Show 1916 Micronesia 31 its old pupils, numbering about one hundred and fifty, although the teachers did not dare open their doors to the many new girls and children whose friends hoped by sending them to the Americans to keep them from having to go on the road. At the American Board's hospital, Dr. Haas and his corps of nurses have been doing Red Cross and relief work in the way of feeding and caring for the sick and the exiled who have been going through the city, and were about to devote more space to surgical work for the military forces. Asked as to the attitude of the Turkish citizens toward the unfortunate Armenians, Dr. Chambers told an interesting incident. On September 7, as the houses were being systematically cleared-women, children, old people, sick, all swept out and driven relentlessly forward-an elderly, respectable-looking Turk stopped on a corner beside one of the hospital staff, who was watching proceedings. He began to speak, half to himself, half to the stranger. "Allah cannot accept this," he said. "This is not of Allah. Perhaps the men are traitors, who knows; but not these children and women and old ones. No, we shall see what comes to us for this. It is not Allah's will." * MICRONESIA News from Kusaie and the Marshall Islands News from our devoted missionaries in Micronesia is very infrequent, and the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Delaporte, of Nauru, in the Marshalls, and Mr. and Mrs. Woodward, of Abaian, in the Gilberts, are in this country on furlough reduces the number of persons who could send us information, should opportunity arise. The Misses Elizabeth and Jane D. Baldwin, of Kusaie, have succeeded in sending a letter to their brother in New York. Mr. Baldwin writes: - "The letter from my sisters came OLD NATIVE CHURCH, ABAIAN, GILBERT ISLANDS Seats 700 natives. Pastor and daughter in lower left-hand corner |