The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-09-07
CHeNNKING
l,NATTONS
On the Scene Of the Recent Massscres
In New Turkey--Even the Men
Who in Cold Blood Slew Americans
Are Permitted TO Walk at Liberty.
BY WILLIAM 7. ELLIS.


Francisco. have threaded my way
through camps OF myrinds of stary.
ing Chinese, In the great famine of
four years ago. But no experience
have ever undergone has been so
depressing as visit to Adana, the
center of the Armenian massacres Of
year and a half ago. Throughout
these Investigations in Turkey. AGana
has kept arising as speCter.
Now | have seen what remains to
be seen OF that holocaust Of blood and
fire and piIlage. The heart OF the
city is still In ruins. People are only
beginning TO rebuild. Widows and
orphans bulk largely in the popula.
tIon. A measure Of self support is
coming through the picking Of the
cotton crop, at which a family may
earn as much as % cents a day. 1t
seemed to mo, as | walked about the
streets Of the city and had pointed
out to me individuals as we'll as
nciGhhorhuods which had boon re.
sponsiblc for share OF the five thou.
sand deaths. as II there were Gym.
teal lcer upon the faces of the Turks
who watched the stranger pass
A Pail Upon the Country.
came down through Asia Minor to
Adaua and two days back in the
Taurus mountains was told that
Here the massacres began" The
Christians were harricd through
many villages and into Adana and
Tarsus. The whole region ran blood.
on" cannot enter into conversation
with group Of people without quick.
ly hearing echoes Of those awful days.
J CHANGED TO meet six prisoners just
oI' Of jail whore they had been i'm.
irsoned since the massacr,s, because
they had defended their village
against the Turks who assaulted It.
Some Of the stories Of the defense
Of individual homes and village COM
munitjos are thrilling 10 the last dc.
gr.c. One English speaking young
man told me quietly when / Ques.
toned him that he had not been in
hlana N the time, but I'm nearby
village which had successfully resist.
cd tho attacks Of the Mosloms At
tho last attack, when the Turkish
soldiers and the fanatics came upon
them, the mon of the village moved
In u body outside the walls TO make
lhcrc a last stands for their homes
aud loved ones; for they knew il the
butchers got within tho gates, all
would be over.
The massacre swept like n forest
fire over all this beautiful region 1t
gives a visitor Il creepy feeling 10
have resident point out to him, hero
ard there. an individual who led in
the attacks upon the Christians The
real leaders in the massacre were
never punished To the credit Of
the young Turks. be It said, they
hanged Gtty-six unimportant persons
whom they held responsible On the
spot / find an omluous questioning as
10 whether the party in power has not
been obliged TO make terms with the
rcuCtionarles.
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