Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-09-29
100000 Other Armenians Driv-
en- Into Deserts to Die-Ap-
paIIing Turkish Butchery
StartIes the World.
NEED FOR RELIEF URGENT
Appeal Issued to Americans
Philanthropists May Take
Hand in Rescuing Half
Million Survivors.

New York. Sept. 25.--Dr. M. Symbad
Gabriel. president Of the Armenian
Genera Progressive association in the
United States. has received from Nu-
bar Pasha. diplomatic representative
in Paris, of the katfolikos. or head Of
the Armenian church, advices in re-
gard 10 the massacres OF Armenians in
Turkey, in which it is stated that
Christian martyrdom has at no time
assumed colossal proportions"
The letters containing the advices
were received by Nubar Pasha from
authoritative sources" in Constants
aople and Athens and contain an APP
peal to the United States to "intercede
md stop the prosecutions"
Two-Thirds Of Tribe Vanish.
DIR. Gabriel said that from informa-
lion contained in the letters and from
othe: reports he had received. he esti-
put to death and 600. 900 rendered
homeless or exiled. out Of a population
II 1900. 600.
What has occurred IN a eew months
n clilcia Armenia" wrote Nubar
pasha, IN transmitting the c%orrespon-
fence. is unbelievable. The great
~nassacres of Abdul Hamid seem in
llgnif!cant compared to tie recent
ttrocities which are without precedent
n the history of our nations martyr
lom. II is nothing more or less than
ne a%nnihilation OF the whole people.
suit Armenia is SO far away that prac-
tcally nothing has yet been heard
,bout this frightfui tragedy in Europe
md America"
A letter from the Constantinople
'ource SAYS that Armenians In all the
titles and villages of the province of
Sllicla nave been deported enmass
o the desert regions south of Aleppo.
MosIems Take Property.
.sloslems nave occupied the lands
IND houses abandoned by the Ar
n%enians. the letter reads:
The deportcd are allowed to carry
..othing with them. They have to
raNel on foot distances requiring a
MONTH or two Of walking in order to
.rr1ve at the desert assigned for their
i~abitatjon, where they will find no
louses. no work, no livelihood, nothing
Iut their graves.
Persons from Is to IS are at the
ROM. Those from As to so are en-
noyed IN the military conveys. AS to
nose who have paid the required sums
or exemption from military service.
hey have been either exiled or impris-
med on some pretext. So the aged. the
women n the children only are de-
,orted.
Forced to Adopt Relation.
W nave also been informed of con-
erslons to Mohammedanism, the
vretched population having no other
~ernat for saving their lives.
The villages in the Vilayets of Van
nd ;'itlis have been pillaged and the
population put to the sword, All the
AfiaenlnnS OF Kara-Hisar have been
nassacred except a few children who
escaped by q miracle.
The courtmartials have been f,nc.
3Cring everywhere.
Numerous 1Armenians have heen
'~nged and others condemned to 10 or
% years Of hard labor. MANY have
.uccumbed to cruel beating, including
ne village priests of Kurk. Even the
:nufchcs and converts have been pil-
aEed and destroyed. Almost all the
bishops have been arrested to be cont
nartialed.
II the neutral powers, especially the
Jnited states. do not intercede at once
mere VIII remain very few Of the
;.Soo.GoO Christian Armenians in the
turkish empire. Christian martvrdon,
ias at no time assumed such colossal
proportions"
Whole Cities Wiped Out.
"A letter from the Athens sources
lays.
THE city Of De~urtyol. after having
teen evacuated by its Armenian popus
ation has been peacefully occupied by
Turkish families and not by military
authorities. The whole Of the Az.
nacHian inhabitants have been sent
Away turned put Of their homes. and
are naturally suffering from hunger.
Ihe exposure Is something that can
aot be described. Before evacuation.
some nine leading merchants were
hanged on the accusation that they
we're IN communication with he
british fleet and that they were spv-
Ing for the allied forces.
1ey1onn has met the same fate:
zeytoun, and all the houses are occu.
picd by Turkish people,"
M0r