Middletown transcript., 1915-09-25
IDDLETowN. DEL, SEPT. rs, 1915
A TWIN BARBARISM

invulnerability above 1000, ,0O0help-
less civilians; the number of killed
was more than 100, some of the
estimates being $50.
The giant Zeppelins lowered over
the English capital and crashed
bomb after bomb on a terror
stricken population, blotting out
life and property.
One bomb crashed through the
roof of bus near Trafalgar Square,
killing fourteen persons. The bus
was blown to pieces. Only few
pieces of the mangled bodies of the
passengers were found. The piece
of leg, supposed to have belonged
to one of the bus victims, was
found great distance away.
A whole block of buildings in the
heart of London was burned. Other
big blazes occurred in widely
separated sections.
An explosive bomb ripped through
a six-story tenement in the centre
of the city, shattering the building
from top to bottom and killing a
dozen or more men, women and
and children as they slept.
Several bombs fell near three
hospitals in cluster, the central
one Of which was the Opbthalmic
Hospital, full of wounded soldiers.
All three buildings were rocked to
their foundations and not pane of =
glass was left intact. The patients
had to be moved into the street,
where they lay for hours on their
cots, while the damage was re-
paired. - Exchange.
The above is taken from the pres
descriptions of the latest massacre b,
the brave German Zeppelin air assissin
of unarmed civilians.
All Germany, officials and people, i
hilarious with joy over the cowardl
deed, shouting it's delight at the crue
slaughter of these women and children
just as they did when their under-se
assassins murdered at one awful bloy
115O passengers on the Lusitania-11
Americans among them-all as innocen
non-combatants as the 40 babes tina
among the other victims persisted a
their mothers breasts
These sea and air butcheries, whic
have been systematically carried on b
the Germans ever since they bega
their wicked war of world conquest
are the work of the civilized (?) men
ber of this "Twin Barbarism. Let L
view from the pen of ex-Ambassadc
Bryce, a picture of the uncivilize
Twin, the Turk:
''Soon after war broke out be-
tween Turkey and the Allies, the
Turkish Government formed, and
since has been carrying out with
relentless cruelty a plan for ex-
tirpating Christianity by killing off
Christians of the Armenian race.
Accounts from different sources
agree that over the whole of East
ern and Northern Asia Minor and
Armenia the Christian population
is being deliberately exterminated,
the men of military age being
killed and the younger women seized
for Turkish harems, compelled to
become Mohammedans and kept
with children in virtual slavery.
The rest of the inhabitants, old
women, men and children, have
been driven under convoy of Turkish
soldiers into unhealthy parts of
Asia Minor, some to the deserts
between Syria and the Euphrates.
Many die or are murdered en- route
and all perish sooner or later.
In Trebizond City, where the Ar
menians number over 10000, orders
came from Constantinople to seize
all Armenians. Troops hunted
them, drove them to the shore, took
them to sea, threw them overheard
and drowned them all, men, women
and children. This was seen and
described by the Italian Consul.
Some in the country escaped by
protesting to accept Islam, and a
quarter of a million escaped over
the Russian frontier. but perhaps a
half millionwere slaughtered or de-
ported, and those deported are fast
dying from i'll treatment, disease OF
starvation. The roads and the hill.
sides are strewn with corpses OF
innocent peasants.
We can all try to send-did to the
miserable refugees now in Russian
territory; but, what man. can stoI
the massacres? Not the alliec
powers at war with Turkey. Only
one power can take action for thai
purpose. 1t is Germany. WoulC
not the expression of American
public opinion, voicing the con
science of neutral nations, leaC
Germany to check the Turkish
Government? p Exchange.
Germany, upon Americas plea "che
the Turkish government" Impossib
for Germany herself is playing t
same brutal game of indiscrimin,
massacres of men, women and childr,
old and young, and would, if her mi