STARVING WOMEN IN THE TOWN OF IGDIR 



"They will be dead in two days," the American Committee manager told the author. 

 In cold Armenia there is no such ghastly exposure of protruding ribs and shrunken bodies 

 as famine produces in India. Old women like these die of exposure and malnutrition before 

 starvation marks their bodies enough to awaken sympathetic aid. 



Photographs by Melville Chater 

 BEGGING FOR BREAD AS THE AMERICAN REUEE TRAIN ARRIVES AT AN ARMENIAN 



STATION 



Among the Armenian refugees are women who have a proud past and who are driven to 



beggary by indescribable conditions. 



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