ARMENIAN HORRORS
BOLSHEVIKI PLACE THE BLAME ON GERMANY. 'A message sent early in April through! tho Russian wireless stations to the German Ministry foi< Foreign Affairs, Berlin, says:— The offensive of Turkish troops and detachments on tho Caucasian front has been followed by tlio murder of the whole of tho Armenian population. The peaceful population, wom-m and children, have been killed without niorcy, and their property has been, plundered and burnt.- Tho Peace Treaty which wo were forced to sign at Brest Litovsk left tho determination of the future destiny of the people of the provinces of Arda. ban, Kars, and Bahim to the people themselves. The responsibility for all the horrors which tho Armenian population is now suffering in these regions, already occupied by Turkish troops, lies, therefore, with tho Gorman Government, which directly helned Turkey to secure these regions.* Tho People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs expresses the hope of, flJid insists on the necessity for, iivO mediato and energetic intorvontion on tho part of Germany in the Caucastis. For the People's Commiss.iriat for For. eign Affaire, TCniTCHERIN, KARAHAN.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 224, 10 June 1918, Page 5
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180ARMENIAN HORRORS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 224, 10 June 1918, Page 5
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