iserable. It was not
until eighteen weary hours afterward that they got the meal they
missed. The need will continue to be great for many months after peace
is declared. Factories have been stripped of their machinery. There
is a complete stagnation of industry. It will take months to
rehabilitate these industries and to start the wheels again."

In Serbia more than 4,000,000 people were deprived of their living by
the war. In Poland the suffering has been more terrible than in either
Belgium or Serbia. The population fleeing behind the retreating
Russians were not able to keep up because of the women and children,
the aged and the sick. They were overtaken by the German army and left
in the charred remains of their burned dwellings. Some 200 cities and
15,000 towns and villages were destroyed in Poland. Already 2,000,000
have died of starvation there. In some districts all the children
under six years of age have perished.

Armenia has suffered relatively more than any of the other nations.
Mr. Henry Morgenthau, the American Ambassador to Turkey, said: "One
million of these people have either been massacred or deported and
unless succor reaches them shortly, those remaining will be lost." In
all history there is no record more sad than that of the persecution
and extermination of the Armenians. University professors educated in
the United States have had their hair and nails torn out by the roots
and have been slowly tortured to death. Women and girls were outraged
and brutally killed. Little children perished of hunger. It is said
that probably 1,000,000 of the 2,000,000 Armenians in Turkey have been
slain, or have been driven into the country to starve, or have been
forced to accept Islam.

The American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief reports:

"Men in the army were the first to be brutally put to death. These and
civilians, after being subjected to horrible tortures, were shot. Even
priests were made victims of brutal murder. Women, children, the sick
and aged, were forced at a moment's notice to start on foot on a
journey of exile. Mothers, torn from their children, were compelled to
leave the little ones behind. Women giving birth to children on the
road were forbidden to delay, but, under the whiplash, were made to
continue their march until they dropped from exhaustion to die. A
United States Consul reported that he saw helpless people brained with
clubs, while children wer