Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 46, 21 September 1916, Page 5

Turkey

ARMENIAN MISERY. REVOLTING ATROCITIES PERPETRATED BY TURKS. GERMAN EDUCATIONISTS PROBRUTALITIES INFLICTED ON EXILED WOMEN AND CHILDREN. STAIN ON GERMANY'S HONOR. . Press Association—Copyright, Australian, and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.1,5 a.m.) New York, September 20. The most barbarous and revolting ' story ever published of Turkish atroc- , ities against the Armenians is printed in the New York Times, which is in possession of photographs and original documents. • The faculty of German high school at Aleppo, Turkey, lodged a protest with the German Foreign Office in which it was stated: "We feel it is our duty to draw the attention of the Foreign Office to the fact that it is' impossible to cany on \ our school work unless Germany ends the brutalities ,■ inflicted, her on the K exiled wives and,children of murdered Aimenians. Owing to the horrible \ leenes which ' occur daily near the school, our work is absolutely valueless. Girls, boys, and women, practically naked, lie on the ground amid the coffins which have been placed to receive them. Of 3000 healthy peasant women who were driven here from Upper Armenia, only 50 are left, and they have been reduced to skeletons. The good-looking ones have been decimated bv the vice of the gaolers, while the ugly ones are victimised by beatings, hunger, and thirst. Those lining the water's edge are not allowed to drink, and Europeans are prohibited from distributing bread. Over 100 corpses are taken daily from Aleppo All this is witnessed by High Turkish officials. Fifty people who have been reduced to skeletons are living in a heap near the school, They are practically insane, and have forgotten how to eat. The natives declare that Germans are responsible. The educated Turks and Arabs shake their heads ' sorrowfully when they see brutal solciJ iters'drag through the town pregnant women, when they beat with cudgels. The scenes we have witnessed are de',grading to mankind, and unless they fc»re stopped will be a terrible stain on honour for generations to 1 come." -Dr Graetnc/r, in an accompanying letter, says: is not only a ''"T sacre but an 'attempt to exterminate the Armenians in Turkey, laaict Bey's officials cynically admitted tins to the German consul. 01 Ib,OUU Armenians who were driven out ot Charput and Sivas, only 350 reached Aleppo, many of those being driven to the Syrian steppes, where the survivors eked out a miserable existence 1 have seen many corpses floating in tne Euphrates and lying on the steppe.

With few exception, the Germans who witness these things are unperturbed, simply saying that they are afraid to interfere lest, iiiey offend the Turks. The Armenians at, Grfa, on seeing •their compatriot.;, refused lo leave the town, whereupon Count Wolf von WolfskeT i ordered a bombardment. After IdO'o;Armenians had surrendered, ; he did-nothing to prevent all of them Oeirig massacred."