The Washington times., 1915-09-30
TALES OF ARMENIAN
: HORRORS CONFIRMED
Committee On Atrocities Says
100000 Victims Already
Have Suffered.

NEW YORK, Sept. 3O.-Prof. Samuel
Train Dutton, secretary of the com
mittee on Armenian atrocities. has MADE
public a preliminary statement OF the
committee outlining the result OF It's
investigation Of the terrible conditions
existing among the Armenians. The
committee saws that tho reports con-
cerning the massacre. torture. and other
maltreatment Of Armenians Of all ages
ab,ndantly are confirmed by its In
vestigation.
Other members Of the committee be-
sides Prof. Dutton are Cleveland IL.
Dodge. Arthur Curtiss James. Rabbi
Stephen $. Wise. John r. Mott. Frank
Mason North. James L. Barton. William
Sloane. d. Stuart Dodge. and others.
The statement issued by the commit
tee Is as follows:
"A subcommittee has thoroughly in
vestigated the evidence and has just
made report to the full committee con-
firming in every particular the state
ment recently made by Viscount Bryce
regarding the imprisonment. torture.
murder. massacre. and exile into the
deserts of northern Arabia of defense
less and innocent Armenians. including
decrepit men. women. and children. and
their forcible conversion to Islam.
Exterminating Non Moslems.
Written testimonies of eyewitnesses
whose names are known 20 the commit
tee. but which obviously cannot now be
made public, have been examined with
utmost care. This testimony covers
hundreds OF pages, and the character
and position of the authors and the
conviction.
rh., ait itpnc r
menians. Greeks, Bulgarians, Italians.
Germans, Turks. Englishmen. Ameri-
cans. business men. travellers, and Of
,lcials of great variety and rank. Not a
single statement can be questioned as
to the facts reported. These all agree
In the declarations that from smyrna
on the west to Persia. and from the
Black Sea to Arab a propaganda OF
determination OF nom Nj oslems Is now
being carried on by the Turkish gov
ernment far surprising in ferocity and
exceeding in destruction anything done
by Abdul Hamid during his long career
of I.assacre and determination.
The statements examined, many of
which are in the possession of the conf
nittee, cover hundreds OF towns and
cities in. which In many instances all of
the Armenians have been killed out
right. often after horrible torture. or
sent to the desert to die OF starvation
and that. too. with diabolical cruelty
The ostensiblc deportation Of men.
women, and children toward Mesopo-
tamia is usually but torn OF march
ing those starving. helpless. and fire.
mountains 10 be outraged and butcher
ed, sometimes by their guards and
sometimes by the kurds. who gladly
cooperate In the work Of destruction.
American Property Seized.
'lncluded among these refugees and
victims are pupils and graduates from
- American schools and colleges.
teachers and professional men who have
taken degrees in American and Euro
pean universities, men and women who
have represented the brains and enter
prise of the country for generation or
more.
THE plan of procedure. which Ia
Identical in all parts of the country.
seems to aim at the complete elimina-
ton Of all non-Moslem races from
Asiatic Turkey, and already that aim Is
In fair way OF accomplishments SO far
as the Armenians are concerned.
In several places American property
has been seized. Americans searched.
imprisoned and expelled from the coun-
try. their letters and kilograms. even
from United States consular offices, in
tercepted and their lives put in jeop-
ardy. This. however. is of trivial i'm
portance compared with the work OF
destruction going on among the Ar
menians.
''EvidenCc seems to prove that proba-
hli 10 .0G0 Armenians have already been
murdered or forced to the desert. where
only death awaits them unless relief
is secured at once. And all this has
taken place since March, and is now
at, the height of its gruesome fury.
THE committee urges that a national
protest he lodged against these
atrocities