The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-26

trines hat Mahomet himself never
even suggested. f'or example, the ig-
norant Mohammcdan believes that IL
he kills eleven Christians he will. for
that reason, have "A sure and safe o
to Paradise. Understanding this basic
fact 1t is not at all difficult to under
stand further why Armenian Chris
tians are massacred,
But 1t is not the average Turk VII
carries out these wholesale murders.
! When officials of the Turkish Govern
ment decide upon "A massacre of Ar
menians they send word to bands Of
savage m"ountaineers. the Kurds. who
are more ruthless than any others.
And the Kurds descend from their
Businesses only too glad to carry out
the orders to STAY and MAIN and raw
! age their religious opponents.
at Is my belief" Mr.. Uhrlaub on
tinued, that agents Of Russia IN
doubtedly are engaged In helping to
stir up the present attacks on Ar
menian Christians. Russia has "A class
of secret officials whose business Is
to stir up trouble whenever they be-
lieve II will prove an advantage to
their country. And in the existing sit
uStion they would unquestionably see
great and far reaching advantage in
arousing all Europe and all OF America
as we'll in an effort to protest against
the Turkish massacres, atrocities and
deportation Of Armenians.
at is a very complex matter. all
this situation regarding Armenians in
Turkey. into ii enter many. many
phases of open and secret govern
mental ambitions and aspirations. Tn
derneath 1t lie many reasons for this
action or that of which the world at
large scarcely dreams"
Statements that the individual Turk
is not engaged In prosecuting Arme-
mans and hat the cruelties result from
action of the higher Government Of
ficials seem to be borne out by a
letter just arrived in New York,
written by a Turk residing In the in
terror Of the Ottoman Empire and adj
dressed to his son. who / now in the
United States. This letter is as fol-
lows:
81 am returning the check you sent
me. for we cannot cash IT here, there
being no Raya CChristians) here any
more. In fact. may your head and
that of the State live long. We 30 not
need any money just now. The in
habitants of our village are all Mos
lens row., for all our Raya n~eighbors
were driven away by night. no one
knows where. Their houses are row
occupied by Kur1 and Cherkez Bashi-
baZooks. each with their one or two
Raya slave girls. No one knows
where they came from; they must
have been waiting at our doors for
some time. as no soone were the Raya
driven away than they poured in like
swarming bees.
Times are bad. my son. The Raya
was everything to us, and the thief
Cherkez is by no means a fair sub
stitute for us. All the elders OF the
village realize this, although there are
few who sympathize with this un.
happy people. ! am only taking my
chances To write 10 you the way they
were treated.
1T being the harvest time, the poor
Raya had not a handful of already
ground flour in their homes and were
nving largely IN vegetables. II there
were any who had bare subsistence at
hand they were not given the chance
10 take anything with them. Some
We're taken out from bed and not given
the time to dress. so many tmostly
old women and children. went ha!f
naked and ba%refooted. We hear many
of them died before the end of the
first day.
| There is no more business activity
here. Everything Is in an a%narChicaI
state. The wheat stacks, still in the
= field, are constantly being set on fir,
] 10y the B~ashibazook. | tell YOU, when
= the winter comes we ourselves vii
have to starve, for as YOU know w
all live on Raya's crops. Further,
more, many of the Muslem farmers
have not been able to raise any Crul
$ this year, for whoever can hold a sticE
= is taken to war