Kinney's orphans escape Adabazar. Acorne, 25 Sep 1920.

Burke Library (Union Theological Seminary)

Photographed at the Burke Library on behalf of Shant Mardirossian. Pages carry a Columbia receiving stamp dated 16 October 1922.

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No masthead survives on the captured pages. Identified as No. 38 from Mr. Curt's departure on 17 September and the Batoum letter of 9 September. No masthead, page number or running head survives; the head of the sheet is torn away on all four pages. Identified as No. 38 of 25 September 1920 from Mr. Curt's departure on 17 September, the Batoum letter of 9 September, and the bracketing dates of Nos. 37 and 39.

Massacres in the villages around Adabazar are reported, with Miss Kinney repeatedly preparing to evacuate before a new Turkish Governor arrived from Constantinople and the place quieted. Mr. Curt, Director of the Constantinople Unit, left with his assistant, Mr. Gruenberg, on 17 September to inspect Ismidt, Adabazar, and Bardezag, found over 18,000 Greek and Armenian refugees in and near Ismidt, and moved Miss Kinney's orphans on the Sunday; he found Bardezag quiet under the Kingsburys. A letter from Batoum of 9 September reports Miss Elsie Kimball running a soup and milk kitchen for 8,000 refugees of whom all but 2,500 were already being fed, barracks secured from the Georgian Government for a hospital, a mortality of fifty a day, and an appeal to the Greek government for repatriation. 'Change of Offices' records the Headquarters Staff moving to 25 Rue Taxim, with 13 Petits Champs retained as living quarters. Mr. Flora's soup kitchen at Adana is described at length: a plate of soup for 1.95 piasters including wood, labor and material, beef bought on the hoof and butchered so the best cuts went to the personnel table and the remainder to the soup, and eight piasters an oke saved on wheat by cooking and drying it in the Near East kitchens. 'A New Type of Stove' describes the brick stove he built with kettles set in holes above the fire, which cost forty lira, saved three and a half hours in the cooking and let the native soup makers who had been rising at half past one sleep until four. Wilson Fowle has succeeded Mr. Flora in the soup kitchen, employment bureau, and supervision of labor; Miss Doris Nevin is doing unusually good work with the orphans, and Miss Ruth Henry has succeeded Dr. Dodd as head of the unit, carrying on with the missionaries under continual firing into the city by the Chettes and Arabs. 'Near East Special Gifts for the Week' records four hundred dollars to Bishop Photios of the Greek Cathedral at Pera for his destitute orphans, and the distribution of a special gift of 54,000 dollars turned over entirely to the Armenian Patriarch for orphanage work. 'New Personnel' introduces those who landed in September, among them Milton D. Brown and Clark D. Martin, both formerly of the American Red Cross and the French Commission, and records Frank L. Hinkle as head of supply for the Anatolia area, Miss Janet McNaughton signing a year's contract with her place at Constantinople College taken by her sister Margaret, Miss Clarissa Blakeslee as the first Near East patient in the new American Red Cross Hospital in Stamboul, and Miss Leah M. Janson signing with the United States Navy for three years to join the navy and see the world.