Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 24 August 1916, Page 5

Turkey

AMENIANS TORTURED. SHOCKING TREATMENT BY TURKISH SOLDIERS. PROTEST TO CERMANY \ IGNORED. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.35 a.m.) London, August 23.

Professor Graetor and Dr. Niepage, German teachers of Armonian children in Aleppo, protested to the German Foreign Office in October against the Turkish frightfulness, but Germany ignored the appeal and the teachers resigned. They wrote: "How can we teach from the Bible when women, boys, and girls who are almost naked are dying in scores in the neighbourhood, and when two thousand healthy peasant women are driven from the highlands. All that remains of them here is forty or fifty skeletons. The guards ravish tin 1 beautiful women and others die a!: hunger, thirst, and floggings. fkosw lying helpless close to water are uot allowed it to drink. Europeans are not allowed to distribute food among the Armenians. Over one bund red corpses daily are carried, out of Aleppo. All this is happening under the eyes of high Turkish officials. Fifty skeletons are now lying ,in the courtyard near the school. They are aliv?, but all are nude, and no longer, know how to eat. If given bread, they push it away, groaning and awaiting deliverance tlirough death. The Natives say that this is thf' German doctrine. Our prestige is in the laststate. Even Turks and Arabs show disapproval when brutal Turkish soldiers drive Armenians through the town, flogging pregnant women ■More frightful massacres must be expected, endangering Germany's good name."