Sufficient food has been one of the great questions of the city. All food supplies have been _requisitioned for the troops. But now it is arranged to have wheat' brought in from the interior. This can be ground in the local mills. As an illustration of how food is being taken for the troops:—the American School for Girls ordered eight bags of flour. A cart was bringing it to the school when it was pounced upon by the authorities and all carried off. After a vigorous protest four bags were returned to the owners.
There are many poor who are already very hungry and before winter iso they will be in a starve ing condition. Yesterday Mrs. Hall and I called on a Moslem family where the father is a paralytic. The two sons who were able to work have been taken as soldiers.
Besides, there is a mother and four small children. They live in one room in a fig orchard. There is no work to do now even if they were able to work. This is but one case at our very doors, where the little children ery themselves asleep for hunger. We are trying to help some of them. But as bread is the chief article of diet, this doesn't last long. Fruit will be cheap this winter as it cannot be exported.
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