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The information which the Committee received they publicised
from time to time in the shape of Reports or through the
medium of the public newspapers, – whose ready & zealous
services they feel bound to gratefully acknowledge.

Meanwhile the miseries sufferings produced by the indiscriminate
massacres of & Cyprus and the destitution and distress
which the events of the war had entailed on helpless men, women
& children who had been compelled to seek an asylum in different countries from
Turkish ferocity & barbarity, had led to the formation of a
Committee among the Society of friends who without taking any
part in any political question had with admirable generosity &
zeal been labouring by successfully to diminish the afflictions of
the Greeks. The Greek Committee begs to express their
high sense of the kindness with which the Committee of the friends
assisted their views – Many hundreds of Greeks who had been
driven from the southern & western Provinces of Turkey – from
the Archipellago were enabled to return to their homes – others
have been assisted with pecuniary aid in most of the
ports of southern Europe – medicines & hospital serv stores
have were frequently seen sent by the friends at the request of the Committee on board of the same ships which
have carried supplies of military stores & naval ammunition, & volunteers
full of ardor & enthusiasm. The establishment exertions of this

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