The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 9

THE KANSAS CITY STAR, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1921, 9 REFUGEES NEAR A CRISIS TWO WEEKS WILL TELL FATE OF 130,000 IN TURKEY. France Has Decided to Quit Feeding Wreckage of Wrangel's War and Rash to Mustapha Kemal's Banner Result, ca CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. hundred and thirty thousand friendless, homeless, refugees from Crimea, them diseased, some poverty: formerly soldiers of General Wrangel, some civilians who had fled from soviet domination, are spreading the poison of discontent and hatred along the banks of the Bosporus, These refugees constitute today the greatest, most delicate problem before the allied nations. And that is saying much, for the allies are confronted in the cockpit of Europe -now shifted eastward from the Balkans to Asia Minor with four other immediate problems burdened disaster. the most pressing is these refugees.

withal MUSTAPHA KEMAL ANOTHER MENACE. The second in importance is the everbolder conduct of Mustanha Kemal. The action the irredentist aspiraton necessity of taking joint tions. Then there is the constantly increasing menace of the spirit of Bolshevism, and the clash of allied interests in the near East. What will happen to these refugees? Repatriation is impossible.

They would not go back if they could, for they would be going to almost certain death under the soviet dictatorship, which they have fled to escape. They are starving and unclothed. They are restless, nervous, apprehensive. hundred or more, rather than taco, an uncertain future under the charitable arm of relief assocations, with the promise of EL more or less precarious existence, have chosen to "desert" and accept service in the legions of Mustapha Kemal, Turk. WRANGLE'S TROOPS ARE SCATTERED.

Thirty thousand of Wrangel's troops are encamped at Gallipoli. Twenty thousand more are at Tehaldja. Seventeen thousand are at twenty-five hundred have found quarters at Salonika. Another thirty thousand are scattered through various parts of Greece and Tunis, according to the American Red Cross. Near Constantinople there are seven thousand civilians.

Hospital cases numper two thousand, of whom the wife of Baron Wrangel, a sufferer from typhus, is one. Through all this horror, there are still ten thousand unaccounted for, while, confined to narrow, cramped, unsanitary quarters on board filthy vessels anchored in the Bosporus, are five thousand more who fled with Wrangel from bolshevist excesses in Crimea. Adding to the restiveness and fear is the impression caused by France's announcement that after February 1 she will refuse either to feed or support in any way these unfortunates. Near Gallipoli announcement has created that consternation which is the forerunner panic. Refugees recently attacked their Senegalese guards, killing twelve of them and wounding scores before they could be cuelled by machine guns, REFUGEES RESIST DEPORTATION, Efforts to deport the refugees to Serbia or Rumania are resisted stubbornly -and the Wrangelist soldiers openly threaten to mutiny if they are sent to Crimea, which would be impossible anyway, in view of the soviet government's stand.

Moscow. feeling herself happily rid of trouble, would rather see the 130,000 foisted upon the allies as unruly wards. soviet wants to put on the entente the burden of feeding and caring for them, and the soviet is especially desirous of seeing whether or not the allies can suppress the disorders, partially due to the taint of bolshevism that runs through the former Wrangel army, which is bound to increase every day henceforth. Wrangel, the anti-bolshevist leader, is himself a virtual prisoner, confined aboard the steamer Lucullus. LACK OF FUNDS HITS RELIEF.

In this situation the American Red Cross and the near East relief associations are doing their utmost to alleviate the suffering. But they are handicapped for lack of funds and the fear that France will carry out her threat. As it have no co-operation from entente officials, According to Maj. Claffin Davis. a minimum of $25,000 a day is required to feed the refugees.

Major Davis has left on a trip across the Caucasus to investigate conditions regarding repatriation. Although the present sanitary. conditions are described as satisfactory, medical officers fear an outbreak, possibly an epidemic of cholera or typhus in the spring. They are endeavoring to forestall such an event with what care they can take today of the weakened and diseased thousands thrust upon their limited facilities. CONSTANTINOPLE, CITY OF DREAD.

Constantinople--always a city of turmoil--is more than ever today a city of dread. There is no employment for thousands. Robberies and other crime on a vast scale make the city unsafe day and night. The local population is suffering almost as keenlv as the unwanted guests. Two and a half million of people are crowded into the narrow confines here, and a natural result has been the skyrocketing of prices, placing everything but the barest of existence above the means of all but the most affluent.

Within two weeks the refugee situation will have reached its most dreadful aspect. That is, unless France reconsiders her decision to refuse salvage to the wreckage of Wrangel's war, which she herself provoked and supported until its collapse. The alternative is that Great Britain or America shall take over the responsibility of sustaining the burden and control over these refugees until normal conditions return. If neither of these things happens, the hunger-mad Russians will assuredly break from their concentration camps and flock to the armies of Mustapha Kemal, where they can at least be a8- sured of food and clothing. And it is significant that Great Britain had hopes to use these very soldiers AS mercenaries against the Turkish If the announcement is correct that after the per cent wage cut by the American Woolen Company the pay is still double what it was before the war, even though working hours are shorter, the problem of industrial readjustment is not yet upon the edge of solution.

Prices of textiles have come down; they have come down heavily. But obviously if in spite of high costs they are driven down by the irresistible pressure of the law of supply and demand, rather than eased down by lower production the new prices are neither 80 costs, sound nor so permanent, as they should be to restore and maintain economic stability. Prices of anything can come down anywhere at any time because the bottom of the market falls out. But for prices to reach a normal level and stay at a normal level, raw material, wages and overhead costs must travel down the same hill by the same road to the same journey's end. Otherwise the consuming public must stand prepared to be whipsawed again when the surplus supply has disappeared and the high production cost again determines the price of an article in a market which cannot obtain enough of that commodity to satisfy the consumer's demand for it.

What workers as well as other consumers with a limited purchasing power need more than anything else now is an adjusted wage to put less price, which means more value, into what his or any other man's dollar buys. leader. SOME WAGES STILL DOUBLE. Pay of Workers Blocks Return of Normal Price Level, From the New York Herald, Greatest Sale of House Dresses Aprons Ever Held in America! We Bought 25,000 Garments--the Entire Surplus of the Largest Manu996 facturer of Aprons in the United States. Every One of Fine Quality Fast Color Gingham; New Styles, Best Workmanship! On Sale Beginning Tomorrow in the Immense Room Formerly Occupied by Toyland! The manufacturer of these goods has always sold to jobbers only--never to retailers.

Consequently with most jobbers overstocked with high priced merchandise, which was not selling, it left this manufacturer with no outlet for his product. He had to keep his four factories running and he made us a proposition if we could use 25,000 garments. We bought- -at prices so low as to be ridiculous-at prices that bring you the greatest values in many years. We could not buy goods of like qualities today at these prices--we doubt if an equal opportunity will ever occur again. Every Apron and Dress of genuine, fast color ginghams, in beautiful patterns and colors.

Brand new spring styles very carefully made. Illustrations are taken from the garments--every one is exactly as pictured. Thrifty women will buy in half dozen or dozen lots. Scores of extra salespeople to serve you quickly. PLEASE SHOP AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE.

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