MILLIONS OF GREEKS.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1918, Page 6

MILLIONS OF GREEKS.

DIE BY NEW KULTUR. DUMPED INTO SIU LIKE ' GARBAGE. ' ' New York, Dec, 3J. . At least one million Greeks, men, women, and children, have perished as the result of organised massacres and deportations by "tlic Turco-TeUtohs" in Asiatic Turkey, according to a statement by Lazaros "George Macrides, soit of a leading merchant of Trebizond, mado public through the Armenian' and Syrian Relief Committee here to-day. Maerides, who recently arrived here, says he was one of a* party of 2000 Greeks who were rescued by the Russian fleet that bombarded the town- of Ordou late last August, and took the refugees aboard. He taken to Ordou, he said, when the Turks -raided Trebizond and seized his father's storo along with those: of other Greek merchants. "Those of us who were between th|s ages of 16 and 60 were drafted into the Turkish armv," said "Our women and children and the older men were placed temporarily in homes and orphanages until the opportunity offered to dispose of them in the approved Turco-Teuton fashion, which in this instance turned out to be- by wholesale drowning. i "The unfortunate survivors of deportation were towed out for several miles into the Black Sea. and then calmly dumped overboard just like so much garbage. None of them survived. German efficiency has simply organised the natural brutality of tho'JTurk and made it many times more effective than ever before. I should think that at the most conservative estimate rtt least 1,000.000 of my fellow countrymen have perished miserably through the organcruelty of this Turco-Teutonic alliance, . The only hope of the future lies in America."