New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-13
Turk FelOns Butcher
Whole Armenian CITY

Professor Samuel T. Dutton, secre-
tary Of the American Committee on Ar
menian Atrocities, gave out statement
Yesterday made by an American pro-
fessor in one Of the mission colleges in
Turkey which tells OF the Staying Of
Armenans by Turkish chettahs.
The statement is as follows:
Twelve hundred and fifteen Armen-
ians who had been collected in the
barracks were bound together in groups
Of five or six men and sent away at
night under the guard Of the gendarm-
erie by order of the government. At a
place about three hours distant from
the city, on a lonely road leading to
Zileh, all of these men were brutally
slain by the gendarmes and by the men
called chettahs The latter were muir
derers who had been released from the
Turkish prisons all about the country
and let loose for the express purpose
of proving upon the Armenians. They
obtained as a reward for their work
whatever money and other valuables
they might find upon their victims.
One Of the zaptiehs who took out this
party stated to the professor OF French
in our college that he had personally
killed fifty men with an axe and OBJ
tanned from them $50.
After thus dsposing of the stronger
and more influential men of the city
the government gave notice to the peo-
pie through the town crier on July 3
that the section of the city nearest to
our institutions was 10 be entirely
emptied Of Armenians and that every
Armenian man. woman or child must
be prepared to depart in three days.
They came around the next morning
with a large number of carts and
drove the people from their houses.
allowing them only TO take pillow and
one bed covering and a supply of food
only sufficient for few days. This
process of deportation was continued
every day or two throughout the whole
month of July, until the city was en-
tirely emptied of its Armenian popula-
ton, which amounted to about 10000
souls.
"The officials who deported the peo-
pie on the first stage of their journey
reported that at some distance from
the city the men and boys were sepa-
rated from the women and girls and
most, if not all, of the males were
killed and the women and girls were
sent on and gradually taken from the
guards TO be appropriated by Turks ir
their harems or 10 perish by the road
side. The government officer declared
that the destination Of the eXiles was
to be Mosul, city about FIVE or six
hundred miles distant in the deser;
regions of Mesopotsmia. These same
officials declared 20 US that il was prac-
tically impossible that any OF the peo-
pie should ever reach this distant place
and if any Of them did reach that
place II was impossible for them %
survive there in the deserts among nos
tile Arabs and other enemies.
"The town of Samsoun was similarl .
emptied Of its Armenian population
also Amasia. Weir Kopru. Chorun and
all other towns and villages in the VI.
cinity of Marsovan.
THE last of August along the Ana.
/ tolian Railway from Angora to Con
/ stantinople saw as many as $4,000 Ar.
menians scattered in the fields and nj
the stations along the road in a sad
and pitiable condition. without ade.
quate supply OF food and no means o:
shelter At Merkedjie alone. the sta.
ton master told US. there were 10000
exiles. Many were weak from hunger
( others almost dead"