The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-09-30
BRANDS ARMENIAN
STORIES AS FAKE
Ambassador Bernstorff Denies
Massacres by the Turks
American Minister Is Or
dered to Investigate.

Washington. Sept. 2S.-Ambassador
-M~orgenthau, at Constantinople was to-
day instructed to inquire int reported
outrages against Armenians in Turkey
to ascertain if any victims are Ameri-
can citizens by birth or naturalization.
so far nothing has been received from
the embassy at Constantinople to in
dictate that American citizens have suf-
fered, but American mission property
has been taxed and threatened with
~c~onfiscation. The reported murder of
two American missionaries still is I'M
confirmed.
Boston. Sept. 2S.-The German am
bassador, Count Won Bernstorff, in a
letter made public here today, de-
cities in the Ottoman empire were
pure inventions" the Ambassadors
letter, written under date of Septem-
Der %, and addressed to Miriam Sevasly,
of this city, chairman of the executive
committee Of the National Defense
union of America. who asked for a de-
finite statement, was as follows:
In reply to your letter I beg to in
form you that according to recent Of
f1cial n authentic reports received by
the German government and trans
United by this embassy to the govern
ment Of the United States the alleged
atrocities committed in the Ottoman
empire appear to be pure inventions.
Without doubling the good faith Of
Catholics, I beg, however, to call your
attention to the fact that His Holiness
is writing under pressure of the Rus
sian censor.
Yours very truly.
~. Bernstorff."
The reference to the Catholics. or
prj M 70 nf tho r,,o1,,i ~ 500 5000
based on a report recently published, in
which he declared that the extermina-
ton of the Armenian race throughout
Turkey was being carried on under Of
fetal direction by an organized system
of pillage, deportations, wholesale exc
cutions and massacres.
New York, Sept. 27.-A statement
confirming the massacre of Armenians
In Turkey was given out here by Prof.
Samuel T. Dutton, secretary of the
committee on Armenian atrocities. The
statement follows:
"a subcommittee thoroughly has in
vestigated the evidence and has made
a report to the full committee, confirm
lug in every particular the statement
made by the Viscount Bryce regarding
the imprisonment, torture, murder,
massacre and exile into the deserts of
northern Arabia of defenseless and in
nocent ~Armenians, including decrepit
men, Women and children.
written testimonies of eyewitnesses,
whose names are known to the COM
mittee, but which obviously cannot
now be made public, have been exam
ined. This testimony covers the char
acter and position of the authors and
the p~ositiveness of utterance carry abb
Solute convictions.
The witnesses examined include Ar
menians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Italians.
Germans, Turks, Englishmen and
Americans of rank.
Not a single statement can be ques-
toned. These all agree hat from
Smyrna on the west to Persia, and
from the Black sea to Arabia, a propa-
ganda of determination of non-Mos-
lens now is being carried on by the
Turkish government SURPRISING in fe-
rocity and exceeding in destruction
anything done by Abdul Hamid during
his long career CT massacre and exter-
animation.
1.-THE statements examined, many of
which are in possession of the commit
tee, cover hundreds Of towns and cities,
in which, in many instances, all of the
Armenians hav been killed outright,
often after horrible torture, or sent to
the desert to die Of starvation, and
that, too, with diabolical cruelty.