The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-16

BY virtue of a total suppression of
all news on the subject, the Turkish
government has succeeded in throw
ing an impenetrable veil over its
actions toward all Armenians. Moth
ing definite is obtainable in Constan-
tinople of the fate of this people out
in the provinces, but it is known
that severe Isl planned against
the Armenians in the Ottoman cap
Ital were not carried out owing to
objections of the German govern
ment.
Concerning the Armenian affair,
three separate notes were presented
to the Ottoman government by the
German ambassador ad interim,
Prince MISUNDERSTANDING. II
the Associated Press is rightly in
formed, these notes had no far
reaching effect, because under pres
ent conditions the German govern
ment has been obliged to act rather
gently. Turkey is still the ally of
Germany, and the Armenians seem
to have alienated the good will OF
the German government and the
people to a considerable extent by
having made open cause with the
entente powers. Many of them have
Joined the Russian forces near Van
and at Zeitoun and bort Jul they re-
VOTED against Turkish authority.
The three notes referred to were
but official incidents in weeks of en-
deavor to persuade the Turkish gov
eminent to take a more reasonable
and humane view of the Armenian
affair. One of the notes drew at
tention to the great injustice of
making all Armenians suffer for
the acts of a few
The Turkish government, however,
seems to have remained adamantine.
AS already stated, it has been i'm
possible to secure accurate informa-
tion in the premises. Turkish Off
Gals have either refused to discuss
the situation or have placed all blame
on the Armenians; these latter, on
the other hand, have either refused
to talk for fear of being also perse-
cuted, or have assigned all respon-
sibility to the Turks. A mass of ir-
~reconcilible statements has been the
result, ranging, on the part of Turk
ish officials, from the absurd claim
that the Armenians were being well
treated, to the assertions of Armen-
ans that in ZeitOun, bort Jul and
other places $4,000 Armenians had
been massacred.
That the Turks have in many in
stances been guilty of needless Sc
verify. and in some cases have per-
mitted barbarous acts of violence,
including murder and rape, seems
well established. On the other hand.
the Armenians in the Van country
have been accused of similar eX-
cesses against the Turkish popula-
ton, and the Turks, having power
on their side, have repaid such acts
with liberal interest, it is said in
well informed Constantinople cir
cles.
1t cannot be said that the ACES of
the Turkish government in this con-
nection Lave found tho appreciation
Of the advanced Turkish classes in
the capital. who, for the greater part,
ia a policy of Cancellation, and
some of whom I've go so far as tc
advocate the establishment of a sep
arate Armenian state in Asia Minor
under the sovereignty of the Otto
man imperial government. Mean
while the tendency of the Ottoman
government to either deny altogeth-
err that the Armenians are being per-
secuted or give it's acts a too obvi-
ously artificial basis and character,
would have but one result, namely
that it is both ashamed and afraid to
let the truth be known. The many
attempts made by the Associated
Press correspondent to throw some
light on the Armenian situation re-
suited in failure because the Turk