While Germany Looks On! 800, 000 Armenians Massacred by the Kaiser’s Ally. Turkey, since May Last

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While Germany Looks On! 800, 000 Armenians Massacred by the Kaiser’s Ally. Turkey, since May Last

While Germany Looks On! 800, 000 Armenians Massacred by the Kaiser’s Ally. Turkey, since May Last

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IIii II _ IFAE 7777777l)M Y HAVE BEEN MASSACRED SINCE I AST VAS AR4ESIAS HREtI.t CS ItES4U~II BY TIHE FRENCH BEING EMBARKED.

WHERE THE WHOLE OF THE ARMENIAN CHRISTIAN POPULATION-FROM 1600 TO IOA.M SOULS– WAS DROWNED IN THE BLACK SEA IN ONE AFTERNOON : TREBIZOOD.

SHOWING THE WATERS IN WHICH FWROM I TO 10 1M ARMEIIAN CHRISTIAMS WERE DROWNED BT OAT-LOADS IN A S ~NLE AFTERNOON: THE PORT OF TREBIZOND.

J I I SAVAED BY THE FRENCH : ARUENIAN REFUGEES RESTING ON BOARD OUR ALLIES SHIP AND DRYING THEIR CLOTHES ON LINES.

ARMED WITH A BROWNING PISTOL: A REFUGEE ARMENIAN GIRL iL_

I. — BENT ON EXCEEDING THE HORRORS PERPETRATED BY ABDUL HAMID: ENVER PASHA. __I

LORD BRYCE OUN THE MASSACRES. “SUCH ilnormation as has reached me from many quaerers goes to show that that which the noble Earl (Lord Cromer) thought incredible, that 8oo,ooo people had been destroyed since May last, is unfor- tunately quite a possible number. The massacres are the result of a policy which, so far as can be ascertained, has been abso- lutely premeditated for a considerable time by the gang who are now in possession of the Government of the Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put It into practice until the moment came, and the favourable moment seems to have come about the month of May That was the time when orders were issued and these orders came down in every case from Constantinople. … . In some cases the Governors, being pious and humane men, refused to carry out the order, and endeavoured to give what pro- tection they could to the unfortunate Ar- menlans. In two cases I have heard of the Governors having been dismissed for re- fusing to carry out the orders. The massacres, nevertheless, were carried out. The procedure was exceedingly systematic. The whole population of a town was cleared out. Men were thrown into prison, the rest of the men and the women and children were marched out of the town. When they had got some little distance they were separated, the men being taken to places where the soldiers dispatched them by shooting or bayoneting. The women and children and older men were sent off under convoy of the lower kind of soldiers to their distant destina- tron, which was sometimes one of the un- healthy districts, but more frequently the large district which extends to the east of Aleppo, in the direction of the Euphrates. They were driven by the soldiers day after day ; many fell by the way and many died of hunger. No provision was given them by the Turkish Government, and they were robbed of everything they possessed, and in many cases the women were stripped naked and marched along in that condition. Many women went mad and threw away ma n he

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trest children, being unable to carry them farther. The caravans’ route was marked by a line of corpses, and comparatively few seem to have arrived at their destination. The facts as to the slaughter in Trebizond were vouched for by the Italian Consul, who was there at the time. Orders came from Constantinople that all the Armenian Christians in

Trehod were to be kiled. Many of the Mussulmans ried to save their Christian neighbours and offered them shelter in their houses ; but the Turkish authorities were implacable. Obeying the orders which they had received, they hunted out all the Christians. gathered them together, and drove them down the streets to the sea. They were all

LORD BRYCE ON THE MASSACRES.

put on board sailing boats, carried out some distance into the Black Sea, and there thrown overboard and drowned. The whole Armenian population of from Sooo to loooo was destroyed in that way in one afternoon. After that any other story becomes credible, and I regret that all the stories contain similar elements of horror, intensified in some cases by stories of shocking torture. Nearly the whole nation has been wiped out, and I do not think there is any case in history, certainly not since the days of Tamerlane, in which any crime so hideous and upon so large a scale has been recordvd. I would like to add that what little I have heard confirms what was said by the noble Earl, that there is no reason to believe that in this case Mussulman fanati- cism came into play at all. So far as I can make out, these events have been viewed by MYussulmans with horror rather than with sympathy; at any rate, they have never shown approval of the conduct of the Turkish Government. It is of some importance, in view of the excuses which the German Gov- ernment have already begun to give for the conduct of their friends and Allies, to remem- ber that there is no ground for the suggestion that there had been any rising on the part of the Armenians. There is no excuse what- ever upon any political ground for the Turkish Government’s action. It was simply an attempt to carry out the maxim once enunciated by the Sultan Abdul Hamid that ” the way to get rid of the Armenian question was to get rid of the Armenianss” It has been carried out far more thoroughly and with far more bloodthirsty completeness by the present heads of the Turkish Government than ever it was in the time of Abdul Hamnid. There are still, I believe, a few cases of Armenians living in the mountains and de- sending themselves as best they can, and about 5ooo Armenians have been taken to Egypt by a French cruiser. The whole race, therefore, is not yet extinct. I am sure we all wish that every effort should be made to send help to the unfortunate refugees in the mountains.”

NURSING A REFUGEE BABY: A FRENCH NAVAL ELEC. TRICIAN TAKING A YOUNGSTER TO ITS MOTHER.

~I. BEAT ON EXCEEDDIG THE HORRORS PERPETRATED BY ABDUL HAMID TALAAT BEY.

The civlhsed world canrot but be aghast at the new records- of Armenian massacres by the Turks, whose orribe butchery of an unfortunate people must be with the connivance of Germany, or, surely, that country would have stopped it. Indeed, is it not on record, in the words of Lord Cromer ?-” Just before I came to the House. I read in an evening paper an extract from a letter addressed by the notorious Count Reventlow to a German newspaper, and it was so very remrkably characteristic of German views on this subject that I will read a small portion of it : If the Turkish authorities take vigorous measures against unreliable, bloodthirsty, riotous Armenian elements, it is not only right, but even their duty, to do so Turkey can always be assured that the German Empire wsil always be of opinion that this matter only concerns Turkey.’ I do not suppose that there will be any trustworthy evldence to prove the conmplhcty of the German Government, or their agents, in these massacres; but when we consider the commanding influence of the German Government at Constantinople, anyone who knows the East will be of opinion that the German Government cannot be acquitted of a vast moral responsibility, unless it can be shown that, knowing of these practice.,

tbey took most vigorous and most energetic steps to stop these proceedings. N wonder it has been written : ” Abdul amid is said to have eaterminated a million of his Armenian subjects. It seems to be the ambition of Talaat Bey and Enve Pasha to outdo him.” At the beginnin of his speech Lord Cromer said : ” The country has been shocked by accounts of renewed Armean ma sacaes which appear to have begu again on an even greater scale than these which herrihed the whole civilised world a few years ago. I read in one paper that the number victims amounted n 1 0,o. The figures ear incredible, and I hope are very much ggerate . . . On the other hand, we know from the report of Lord Bryce what was the of the Gesma Aty toin Belgium, and we also know from the scathing indictment of the French Government what has been the conduct of the Gersns in France.” With regard the phetgraph which shows refugees on board a PFrech ship and drying their clothes on lines set up by the sailors it may be noted that, in the background,
is seen the dark entrance la eaplaneshoed, used to shelter the refutees.

undefinedSaved from a People of Whom 800, 000 Have Been Massacred since Last May: Armenian Refugees Rescued by the French Being EmbarkedundefinedWhere the Whole of the Armenian Christian Population—From 8000 to 10, 000 Souls—Was Drowned in the Black Sea in One Afternoon: TrebizondundefinedShowing the Waters in Which from 8000 to 10, 000 Armenian Christians Were Drowned by Boat-Loads in a Single Afternoon: The Port of TrebizondundefinedSaved by the French: Armenian Refugees Resting on Board Our Allies’ Ship and Drying Their Clothes on LinesundefinedArmed with a Browning Pistol: A Refugee Armenian GirlundefinedBent on Exceeding the Horrors Perpetrated by Abdul Hamid: Enver PashaundefinedOur Allies, the French, as Saviours of Armenians: Babies and Other Refugees Aboard a French ShipundefinedNursing a Refuged Baby: A French Naval Electrician Taking a Youngster to Its MotherundefinedBent on Exceeding the Horrors Perpetrated by Abdul Hamid: Talaat Bey

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