Physical strength instead of motor trucks. In Constantinople the traveller is amazed by feats of strength which the native 'hamals' or porters display when carrying burdens of excessive weight. In most countries motor trucks or horses would draw these four and five hundred pound barrels of lard like that which these four men have on the long pole ? from their shoulders. They are transporting the ? to the American Red Cross warehouses to be used by the Russian refugees who are being fed and cared for on the island of Proti, not far from Constantinople in the sea of Armora