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This issue looks back on the destruction of Hadjin and the flight of its Armenian population during the Franco-Turkish conflict, then follows survivors into the Caucasus famine. It describes the Aleppo “Well House,” where eye clinics treated thousands of patients, and a Sidon orphanage holding 300 girls with widespread trachoma. Appeals for a Constantinople research laboratory, flour campaigns, and vocational work at Bardizag place medical relief within the American fundraising effort.
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The New Near East was Near East Relief's monthly publication that reported on the organization’s work and mobilized financial support from American readers. Its articles preserve evidence of field conditions and institutional decisions, but they frame that evidence through Near East Relief’s own appeals for support.
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Masthead: Vol. VI, No. 5 (Total No. 45), February 1921. Published by Near East Relief, New York.
* “Enriched Through Sacrifice” opens the Lenten campaign with an appeal for personal giving and service.
* “The Fate of the Hadjinlees” recounts the siege and destruction of Hadjin and the return of a small group of survivors.
* “Two Hundred Thousand Wrongs” prints a cable about refugees and famine between Kars and Alexandropol.
* “The ‘Well House’” describes Arthur S. Tenner’s former hospital in Aleppo, which maintained 20 beds, three clinics, and an average of 5,373 treatments each month.
* “The Place Where the World Began” describes a Sidon orphanage with 300 girls, nine teachers, two nurses, and a serious trachoma problem.
* “Shall We Have the Laboratory?” argues for a research laboratory connected to the Constantinople trachoma hospital.
* “Pay It With Flour!” reports a Syracuse campaign that translated donations into barrels of flour.
* “The American Public Cares” records Christmas appeal receipts and gifts of food, including 20 tons of beans from Los Angeles.
* “At Bardizag” describes boys managing the orphanage kitchen and preparing stores in the cook’s absence.
* “Armenia’s Call” closes the issue with a poem that urges aid for Armenia.