The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-26

~ DAT SUN has obtained detailed
statements concerning oondi-
lions In Armenia, especially a
to the massacre Of Armenian Chris.
tians and the wholesale deportation
Of inhabitants of cities and villages.
These appear to confirm In every
respect viscount Bryce's statement
oAsied to THE Sun that the Turkish
Government was carrying out with
relentless cruelty a plan for e~xtirpat-
ing Christianity by killing or Chris
tians Of the Armenian race"
In a summary Of the existing situa-
non M informant declares the plain
truth to be that the Turks who are
In power to-day have determined to
sxterminate the Armenian race.
"In many cases. he says, local
Turkish officials do not share this
purpose. Private citizens who are
alco Turks do not share 1t. They
realize how their welfare and daily
life IL wrought with that of their
Armenian neighbors, but the high off,
Gals at Constantinople are relentless
in spite OF protest. arguments and APP
peal.
Responsibility for this
OF determination is charged upon En-
yer Pasha and Talaat Bey, the real
rulers OF Turkey to-day. Back OF
them 1t is often charged that Germany
is responsible, at least passively re-
sponsible. I'M il il believed that a
word from her could stop the OUT
RACES. German officials in Turkey are
quoted by word and in deed as en-
couragins the procedure.
Three means of determination are
being NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., massa-
ere and r~ecantation. BY recanting
their faith and accepting Islam alto
gether a good many Armenians have
escaped further persecution. In many
cities, such as Treblzond. in the
north, and Mardin. in the south, there
have been wholesale massacres Of the
Armenians; in other cases. as at
.darsevan, smaller numbers have been
executed; at the last named place a
detail was sent out from the city to
dig a trench, lined up on its edge.
shot and buried in the trench they
had dug.
Deportation has been the novel and
most widespread means OF extermina-
ton. 1t was least repulsive and quite
as effective. In city after city such as
Zeitoon, Aintab. Sivas, ErZroom. Har-
poot and in lesser measure from cities
in the Cilician Plain. Adana, Tar
sus and Hadjin. Armenian men Of vig-
orous age have been drafted into the
army and set to work upon roads.
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forcibly taken from their homes,
forced to march long distances into
a strange country, there to be scat
tered among strangers.
"In these attacks upon the Arme-
mans the leading men, best educated,
most we'll to do, most influential. have
been the first to be seized and the
most harshly dealt with. They have
been tortured with indescribable suf-
fering, their property seized and they
themselves killed or exiled.
-~Sickening sights have been wit
messed along the line OF travel Of these
deported companies. Sometimes the
roadsides have been strewn with
ccrpses; women have left their babies
to die on the way: starving, penniless
broken almost 10 the point OF despdii
they have stumbled on to what seemed
to he certain death a little further
on the way. Women and girls have
been carried off by Turkish soldiers OF
seized by Turkish citizens in the towns
and villages through which tneS
passed.
Large cities and towns where thou
sands have lived have been swept
clean Of Armenian inhabitants. Teach
crs in mission schools and professors
in mission colleges have been arrested
tortured and even massacred. The
whole interior of Turkey is one wild
scene OF terror and oppression.
mo Armenian is really safe oi
knows but that his turn will come
next 1t is impossible to give num-
bers, but it is affirmed that a wlde re