Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-08-05
Families Are Torn Apart and
Sent To Widely Separated
Sections Of Empire
MAY NOT MEET AGAIN
SEND YOUNG MEN TO WAR
Ragged and FOotsore People
Herded Like Cattle Along
the Highways
(By Henry woody

klOlIeu lTpSS oldIl Correspondent
Dedeagatch, Bulgaria, July 29.-(De.
layed) Atrocities thar rival the out.
RACES of Abdul Hamid are being in.
flicted on the two million Armenians
in Turkey by the Young Turk govern
ment. Official circles in Turkey are
using every possible means to prevent
the news from reaching the outside
world. | have come here from Constan-
tinuple to cable story Of conditions
as they were told to me by sources in
the Ottoman capital whose reliability
cannot be questioned.
Thousands of Armenians nave been
deported from their homes in Asia
Minor, their property cOnfiscated and
their families broken up. Young Ar
menans have been hurriedly drafted
into the army and rushed to the CALI
poll peninsula to meet quick end in the
trenches of the Dardanelles. Wives,
mothers and young children have been
left helpless in the streets or transport
ed to strange cities and abandoned to
the mercies of tine Mussulman pOpula-
tOn
Massacres Expected.
nus lult NJ WuultSNlt ultSsdtTts
have been reported to Constantinople
But the critical moment for the Ar.
menians will come when the Turks meet
with serious reverse at the Darda-
nelles, If that should occur, or when
the Armenians themselves become en-
bOdened by the successes Of their local
reyolts and attempt a general move.
ment OF rebellion.
So critical is the situation that Am
bassador Morgentnau, who almost
single handed is fighting to prevent a
wholesale slaughter, has felt obliged to
ask the cooperation Of the ambassa.
doris Of Turkeys two allies. Baron
Won Wangenheim, the German ambas.
sadOr, and Margrave Pallavicini, the
Austrian representative at CONSTANT.
nOpIe, have responded az least. to a
degree of joining with the American
ambassador in trying to convince the
Turkish government that q renewal of
the atrocities Of the former Turkish
regime would be a serious mistake.
Families Left Helpless.
Tne order for the present cruelties
was issued early in May and executed
with all the extreme genius Of the
Turkish police system. At Brousse, in
Asiatic Turkey, the city which it is
expected the Turks will select for their
capital If Constantinople falls, investi-
gated personally the manner in which
the decree was s'carried out. There, the
police at midnight swooped down upon
the homes of all Armenians whose
names nad been put on the prescribed
hSt sent out from COnstantinope
These men were arrested and the min
ute't search made of their homes for
possible revolutionary documents. The
Young Armenians were then ordered
INTO the army; the older men were de
ported into the interor,,while the WON
'1 and children, who were not carried
OH were-left to shift for themselves
Iu thousands of eases, the deporta
,'on has been carried out on suen Q
naSIs that families will never be united
Simultaneous with these arrests
throughout the empire, the Constant
'oNl' police arrested the alleged lead
''' ot an Armenian society who vert
'Osa-ed with plotting the establish
.uoNJ OF an Independent Armenia. Nine
'e'h OF these men were hanged in frm
UT 'h' ministry Of war. Among then
was o man who had been the cashie
VI. q turkish branch Of the Singer Sew
"I Machine company.
Families Are Scattered.
Az the Armenian town of Seitounl
-'I' inhabitants, the young Arme
'.'u, refused to enlist in Turkey
"w''' A Turkish military force wa
Ty against the city, but 800 Of tn
r,,, 'I., were killed An uyerwhelminl
"I'Ish force was then sent aud whei
''' '.ly fell. the Turkish military off
a"'' carried ont to the extreme deqre
.''N system Of deportation and disper
Tl l. Twenty thousand Turks fron
.iI',e We're taken to Ieitoun and es
bIU'hel N houses that FOR generation
s.Ns'1 10 the Armenians. while tn
"eI owners were scattered to tn
,leLlN ends of the empire. one por
o. being sent to the sandy desert
AN 'u' mead Of the Persian gulf and IN
terror '"' "'''sues III 'ne u
H. helpless Beaten to Death.
ina, witnesses from the Interior con
20 Oonstantinople described the prC
mo,.n .n Of these ragged, miserable A
u''n' o,.an' herded by soldiers In grour
o,Is'ug from 50 to several hundre,
M. men who could not maintain N
,bsy were beaten by the soldiers unit
a'ed in their tracks, these ey,