THE TRUTH FROM THEIR OWN KIN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2859, 25 August 1916, Page 6

THE TRUTH FROM THEIR OWN KIN

WHAT GERMANS IN ARMENIA THINK OF TURKISH ATROCITIES

AN UNHEEDED PROTEST

Australian-New Zealand Cable AEeociation, London, August 23. Professor Gracter and' Dr. Niepago, German teachers of Armenian children in Aleppo, protested to the German Foreign Office in October last against Turkish frightfulness. Germany- ignored tho appeal, and tho teachers resigned. > _ They have now authorised the publication of what they wrote:— "How can we leach from the Bible when women, hoys, and girls, almost naked, aro dying in scores in the neighbourhood; when two thousand healthy peasant women hare-been driven from the highlands. -AH that remains of them bore are forty or fifty skeletons. The guards ravish the beautiful women, tho others die from . hungor, thirst, and floggings. Those who are lying helpless close to water are not allowed to drink. Europeans are not allowed to distribute food to tho Armenians. Over ono hundred corpses are daily carried out of Aleppo. All this is happening under tho eyes of high Turkish '.officials. Fifty skeletons are now lying in a courtyard near the school. They are alive, but all are mad. They no longer know how to eat. If given bread they push it away, groaning, /and awaiting deliverance by death. Tho natives say thia is the German doctrine. Our prestige in (the East is at stake. Even the Turks 'and Arabs show their disapproval. When brutal Turkish soldiers drive Armenians through towns, flogging pregnant women, more frightful massacres must' be expected, endanger-' in'g Germany's good name." (Rec. August 24, 11.10 p.m.) London, August 24. Twelve thousand Armenians were working in the Bozani tunnel, in the Taurus Mountains, under German supervision. Forty were murdered, dismembered, and mutilated at the end of, June. Subsequently all the men were murdered, and the women aud children eent to slavery. , The Turkish officials admit that the Armenians were ordered to'move on to their emigration, which is' a euphemistic, term for massacre;

THE PRESIDENT'S VETO

UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION BILL DROPPED. Australian-New Zealand Oablo Association. Washington, 1 August 23. Tho Senato has dropped the Immigration : Restriction Bill owing to the President's throat to veto it.

VILLA ALIVE AND ACTIVE

COMMANDS A MOUNTAIN FOLLOWING. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. August 24, 3.30 p.m.) Washington, August 23. General Pershing (tho commander of tho United States Expeditionary Forco to Mexico) reports that Villa, who had been repoited to bo dead, is commanding a small forco in the Durango mountains.