On May 19th, $2,500 received from this Armenian Committee was cabled to the Ambassador with the request that it be distributed to Armenian sufferers of all denominations with the co-operation of the Armenian Patriarch in Adana, the Reverend Kevrok Arslandan. On May 28th a further remittance of $1,500 was sent with a like request. This included a second remittance of $1,000 from the Armenian Committee, making a total of $20,000 sent for the relief in Turkey. On June 16 an additional $5,000 was received from the _Christian Herald_, and was cabled to Turkey on the same day with instructions to distribute it in the same manner as the remittance of the 13th of May. The last dispatch received by the State Department on June 3rd, and transmitted by the First Assistant Secretary of State to the Red Cross, reads as follows: “Mr. Peet makes the following statement: “‘Relief work prosecuted in nine centers where thirty thousand people are now supported. Present endeavor to rehabilitate refugees thus making possible to earn livelihood and reduce list. Permanent provision for orphans also required. Generous help now will (word indecipherable) thousands dollars relief and put thousands of people on feet again.’ “I have great confidence in Mr. Peet’s judgment, as he is eminently qualified by his long experience to speak authoritatively of such matters and the Relief Committee at Adana, although international in character, is largely composed of American missionaries headed by the British and United States Consuls, which furnishes an unquestionable guarantee that the relief funds will be fairly and judiciously expended. So far, the subscriptions from England and America have been comparatively small considering the enormous number of widows and orphans who, for the moment, are entirely dependent upon public charity, and I am sure that if the generous American public more fully realized the great distress prevailing in the Adana and Aleppo districts it would respond more liberally to the appeals which are being made. “LEISHMAN.” [Illustration: ARMENIAN ORPHANS FROM MASSACRES OF 1894-5, IN SCHOOL SUPPORTED BY SECOND EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF AINTAB. (By Courtesy of the National Geographic Society.)] CALABRIA AND SICILY TWO MONTHS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE BY ERNEST P. BICKNELL, National Director, American Red Cross.