The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-17
TURKS ASHAMED OF THEIR ACTIONS IN THE ARMENIAN MATTER |All News On the Subject Is Being Suppressed By the Censor PAID NO HEED TO GERMAN PROTESTS Behind the Veil It Is Certain That Much Needless Persecution Has
 Been Carried Out-Wreak
 Vengeance on Innocent

Constantinople, September 25.-tCor-
 By virtue of a total suppression of all
 news on the subject, the Turkish gov
 ernment has succeeded in throwing an .tmpenetrable veil over its actions to-
 ward all Armenians. Nothing definite is |obtainable in Constantinople of the fate of this people out in the prov inces but it is known that severe meas ures planned against the Armenians in
 the Ottoman capital were not carried out owing to objections of the Ger man government.
 Concerning the Armenian affair. three separate notes were presented to the ottoman government by the Ger man ambassador ad interim, Prince
 lohe-Langenburg. If the Associ- ated Press is rightly informed these notes had no far-reaohing effect, be- cause under present conditions the German government has been obliged
 to act rather gently. Turkey is still the ally of Germany and the Armen- | ians seem to have alienated the good will of the German government and people to a considerable extent by hav- ing made open cause with the entente powers. Many of them have joined the Russian forces near Van and at Zeitoun and Dort Jul they revolted against Turkish authority. The three notes referred to were but official in cidents in weeks of endeavor to per- suade the Turkish government to take a more reasonable and humane view |of the Armenian affair. One of the notes drew attention to the great in- Justice of making all Armenians suf- fer for the acts of few. The Turkish government, however, seems to have remained adamantine.
 Paid No Heed
 As already stated it has been i'm possible to secure accurate informa- tion in the premises. Turkish officials have either refused to discuss the sit
 uation or have placed all blame on the Armenians; these latter, on the other hand, have either refused to talk for fear of being also persecuted, or have assigned all responsibility to the Turks. A mass of irreconcible statements has
 been the result, ranging. on the part of the Turkish officials, from the ab-
 surd claim that the Armenians were
 being well treated, to the assertions of
 Armenians that in Zeitoun. Dort Jul and other places 50,000 Armenians had been massacred
 That the Turks have in many in-
 stances been guilty of needless severity
 and in some cases have permitted bar
 barous acts of violence, including mur-
 der and violence, seems well estab- lished On the other hand. the Arme-
 nlans in the Van country have been
 accused of similar excesses against the
 Turkish population and the Turks,
 having power on their side have re-
 paid such acts with liberal interest, it is said, in we'll informed Constanti-
 nople circles.
 It cannot be said that the acts of the Turkish government in this con- nection have found the appreciation of
 the advanced Turkish classes in the
 capital who, for the greater part, fa
 vor a policy of conciliation and some of whom even go as far as to advo- cate the establishment of separate Armenian state in Asia Minor under the sovereignty of the Ottoman imperial government. Meanwhile the tendency of
 the Ottoman government to either de- ny altogether that the Armenians are being persecuted, or give it's acts too