The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-05-18
'SAGASIAFORESESNF[AI ARMENIAN MASSACRES [
[S0P|UM 10 Be LICENSED ALOHA! SOLDIER BOYS
LIGHT ON THEIR CAUSE AND
MOTIVE.
"Neritas" Corrects Some Loose State
ments and Erroneous Deductions as
Made by New York Correspondent

the extreme credulity with which the
editor of the Advertiser in a leading
article of May 18th, adopts the ex
pacte report of correspondent of
the New York Herald in regard to the
Armenian massacres. One might as
well accept as final the reports once
made to the same paper in regard to
Hawaiian affairs by Charles Nordhoff,
who was sent to this country on a
similar errand in 1893. The New
York Herald has long been recogniz-
ed as an ardent defender of the
"Great Assassin" as Gladstone calls
the present Sultan, at whose invitation
it sent DR.. Hepburn to make white
washing report on the crimes laid to
his charge.
The cool assumption is made that
the facts regarding this matter have
not been known, that-to say nothing
of men like DR.. Cyrus Hamlin and
President Washburn of Robert college
the reports of the British. French
and German ambassadors and consuls
are of no account, and that the testi-
mony of such men as Hon. James
Bryce, DIR. J. Rendel Harris of Eng
land. of Dean Ramsay, of Professor
Lepsius of Berlin, and of others in
timately acquainted with the country
and people of Asia Minor. is not to be
relied on. and that it was reserved for
the New York Herald's emissary to
discover the truth.
The Advertiser says: "The case is
NNhin1, 81, thn 1;fEntt1
ty of obtaining the correct facts upon
which alone history may be correct
ly written" Well how did DR.. Hep
worth go to work to obtain these
facts? He writes as follows: "Our
little company consists of Sivry Bey.
one of the secretaries of the Sultan;
Khalid Bey, who is commissioned to
make report to His Majesty on the
condition of the country through
which we pass; an aid de camp of the
Sultan, Colonel Tewfik Bey, and Lieu
tenant Colonel Rashdi Bey; then Mr.
Sidney Whitman and myself"
anybody who knows anything
about Turkish administration can
judge how much under such environ
ment could be learned about massa-
cres which had occurred two years
before.
1t was not thus that Eugene Schuy-
Ier and Mr. Mac Gohan went to vorl,
when they brought to Iight the simi.
lar atrocities committed in Bulgaria
in 1876
One specimen of character of DR.
Hepburn's information NAV suffice
At Trphizond he asked n "prominent
individuol {" who was to blame for th,
noossocries i'm Trehizond The GENTLE
man renIied. "Do Won remember th,
| Ottoman Ranl, eniSode ot CONSTANT.
nonInp" Dr TIenrvortb renlied. "per
rentIv" "Nevs aies fast ) continuel
the IentIamon "ond what has occurr
ed there hecome known here Two OF
three doys aftervnrd Rohri pasbf
,yns ,yaIl;inr aIonu tnn main street n.
,Trelizor,- when "a .ornIe of v,o,pc
mon ovideutIv tprmhars of +be revo
1utiora,.v committee fred upon him
,Thav ottemnted to dunIicate tb,
moyement which was bcGun i'm Con
/ stontinonIe After Grin~ these fel
/ lows Aed and foupd n hiding nIoce
/ DR. Uen,vortb's informant then ooe,
1 ON to assert that II was the wrath o
| the popuIace AT these Armenian wouI,
/ he assassin. that reused them TO com
/ mence the massacre. i'm which he ad
mits that 500 persons were killed
| DR. Henyortb saws: "Tbis was nj
valuable TESTIMONY from the lips of
man thoroughly acquainted with al
! the nationolities which are congregat
ed in this cosmopolitop citv."
How valuable his testimony is will
he seen when il is understand tha
what is here nresented os tbe cans
of tbe outbreal, in Trehizond reoll,
occurred fen months after that mi
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