ASIA MINOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1916, Page 5

ASIA MINOR.

THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK. INHUMAN -ATROCITIES. HEARTRENDING DETAILS. London, August 23. Professor Graetor and Dr. Niepage, German teachers of Armenian children at Aleppo, protested to the German Foreign Office hi October against Turkish frightfulncss, but Germany ignored the appeal. The teachers have resigned, and have now authorised the publication of the protest. They wrote "How can we teach from the Bible when women, boys and girls, almost naked, are dying in scores in the neighbourhood, when 2000 healthy peasant women are driven i'roin the highlands, and all' that remains of them here is forty or fifty skeletons? The guards ravish the beautiful women and the others die of hunger, thirst and floggings. Those, lying helpless elose to the water are not allowed to drink. Europeans are not allowed to distribute food to the Armenians. Over a hundred corpses are daily carried out of Aleppo. All is happening under the eyes of high Turkish officials. Fifty skeletons are now lying in a courtyard near the school. They are alive-but all are mad and no longer know how to cat. If given bread they push it away, groaning and awaiting the deliverance of death. The natives sayy, '"This is the German doctrine." Our prestige in the East is at stake. Even the Turks and Arabs show disapproval when the brutal Turkish soldiers drive Armenians through the ■ town flogging pregnant women. More frightful massacres must be expected endangering Germany's good name.