Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-25
MILLION SLAIN OR
SENT INTO EXILE
armenian Bureau in Paris Says PEG.
pie Are Being systematically
Wiped Out by Turks.
LANDS AND HOUSES SEIZED

NEW YORK, Sept. 24.--Dr. Sym
bad Gabriel. president Of the Arme-
nian General Progressive association
In the United States. has received
from. Nubar Pasha. diplomatic rep
representative In Paris OF tho Kath-
oJikos. or head Of the Armenian
church, advises in regard TO the mas
sacres Of Armenians in Turkey, in
which It is stated that christian mar
tyrdoln has At no time assumed such
colossal proportions"
The letters containing the advioes
were received By Nubar Pasha from
authoritative sources in Constanti-
nopie and Athens. and contain an APP
peal 20 the United States 20 inter
cede and stop the prosecutions.
DR.. Gabriel said that from information
contained IN the letters and from other
reports he had received, he estimated
that $1,000 Armenians had been put to
death and $4,000 rendered homeless or
exilcd, out Of q populatloa Of 10000.
AnnIhtIation os whole People.
what has occurred IN a few months In
Cilicia and Armenia" wrote Nabur Pasha,
in transmitting the correspondence. is
unbeiievnble The great mareacres 81
Abdul Hand seem insignificant compared
90 the recent aatrocites which are with
out precedent In the history Of our ma
lions martyrOlogy. II Is nothing more
or less than the humiliation Of tho whole
people. But Armenia ~ 20 far away
shat practically nothing has yet been
heard about this frightfu tragedy IN
Europe and America"
letter from the constantinopie source
says that Armenians IN all the cities
and villages OF the province of cilicia
have been deported EN- masse 20 the dcsert
regions south OF Aleppo.
Lands and Houses seised.
Mcslems have occupied tho lands and
houses abandoned by the Armenians, .
tho letter roads.
The deported are allowed 60 carry
nothing with them. They have 10 travel
on foot distances requiring a month or
two OF waIklng in order to arrive at the
desert assigned for their habltation, where
they VIII find no houses, no work, no
livelihood. nothing but their graves
Persons from % to 80 are az the front
Those from ~ 20 90 are employed IN the
military conveys As 20 those who have
paid the required sums for exemption
from military service. they have been
either exiled or imprisoned on some pre-
text So the aged, the women and chill
dren only are deported.
we have also been informed OF CONVEX
sions 10 Mohammedism. the wretched
reputation having no other alternative
Tor saving their lives.
"The villages IN the viiiayets Of Van
and Bftlis have been pillaged and tho
populations put 10 the sword. All the
Armenlans OF Kara-fifsaT nave been
massacred except a few children. who
escaped almost by miracle.
Priests Hanged, Converts PilIaecd.
The courts-martial have been func-
tioning everywhere. Numerous Armenians
have been hanged and others condemned
to ten or fifteen years Of hard labor.
Many have euccumbed TO cruel beating,
including the village priests OF ISurk Even
tho churches ana converts have been pill
LACED and destroyed. Almost all the
bishops have been arrtatsd to be court
martsaled.
IF the neutral powers. especially the
United States. do not intercode az once.
there viii remain very few OF the 1901
900 Christian Armenians In the Turkish
empire Christian martyrdom has at no
time assumed such colossal proportions"