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Dodd counts 12,000 refugees at Adana. Acorne, 28 Feb 1920.
Location
Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
Year
1920
Item Detail
William S. Dodd's report on the Adana district opens the issue and puts the problem mostly outside the city. He counted about 12,000 refugees in Adana and as many again beyond it, a hospital of forty beds, a refuge home of ninety girls, and an Armenian Union orphanage holding 1,700 children in buildings meant for a third of that number. Figures from the Caucasus reprinted here are larger again, with 82 orphanages, 20,934 orphans, 3,959 hospital beds and 410,476 people given bread or flour each day. Fire nearly destroyed the Konia headquarters and hospital on 13 February.
Context
The Acorne was the weekly bulletin of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, produced in Constantinople for private circulation among the Committee's own staff. By January 1920, it printed a thousand copies a week for station directors in the field and for supporters in America.
Issues ran to four pages of short field dispatches and unit reports: orphan care, medical work, refugee feeding, education and workshop programs, with operational notes on supplies, rations, transport and exchange. Personnel notices recorded arrivals, transfers and departures. The bulletin took the title Near East Relief with Vol. II, No. 42 on 23 October 1920.
No complete run is known to survive. NERHS holds seventeen issues of Volume II, drawn from the Harry Pratt Judson records at the University of Chicago, the Martin Weaver Documents at the Mennonite Historical Library, and the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary.
These five issues run from 31 January to 27 March 1920 and cover the Adana district, the massacre at Marash and its aftermath, and American relief in north-west Persia. They reached the University of Chicago through President Harry Pratt Judson, who headed the Committee's Persian commission.
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Holding Institution
University of Chicago (Office of the President)
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Attribution
University of Chicago, Office of the President. Harper, Judson, and Burton Administrations. Records (1869–1925)
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Notes
Masthead: 'The Acorne. Vol. II–N° 9. Edited by Near East Relief. 13, rue des Petits-Champs. Constantinople, 28 February 1920.'
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Document Contents
'Near East Relief at Adana', signed William S. Dodd, Director, on a district where the relief problem lies mostly outside the city: about 12,000 refugees in Adana and as many again beyond it, a hospital of about forty beds and a refuge home of ninety girls, an Armenian Union orphanage of 1,700 children in buildings meant for a third of that number, a French camp of nearly 2,000 under canvas and a Greek camp of over 500, industrial work transferred from Tarsus to Deortyol under a Port Said Charities Fund grant, 200 children at the Harouniye orphanage, and the repatriation of Sheik Murud where eight villagers had been killed; 'Individual Remittances'; 'Fire at Konia' on the near destruction of the headquarters and hospital on 13 February with about a thousand liras of damage; 'Lost'; 'Armenian Central Committee', providing for 9,000 orphans; 'Figures from the Caucasus' from The Near East News — 82 orphanages, 20,934 orphans, 26 hospitals, 3,959 beds, 36 soup kitchens and 410,476 people aided daily with bread and flour; 'A N. E. R. Supply Base' on Oulou Kishla, a village of about 300 handling fifty trucks and twenty-five arabas a day; 'Personal Notes'; 'Transportation in a Relief Organization', a comic verse signed Caris E. Mills.