The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-05
TSALES OF ATROCITIES
BEYOND BELIEF

Ambassador MOrgenthau has been
leading in a campaign for the relief of
the persecuted Armenians for the past
several weeks, while recently ViscOunt
Bryce, formerly British ambassador to
the United States, has sent to the As
sOciated Press a plea that America try
to stop the slaughter Of Armenians.
"The civilized world, he says in his
plea, Especially America, ought to
know what horrors have been passing
in Asiatie Turkey during the last few
months, for If anything can stop the
destroying. hand of the Turkish govern
pEant IL sill, ,Sbe an expression Of thu
opinion OF 'nouttal nations chiefly the
Judgement Of humane America. : j..
"Soon' after the war broke out be-
tween Turkey and the allies" contin-
ues the viscount, "the Turkish govern
ment formed, and since has been carry
ing ont with relentless cruelty, a plan
for extirpating Christianity by Killing
off Christians of the Armenian race.
determination Is Deliberate
Accounts from different sources agree
that over the whole of eastern and
northern Asia Minor and Armenia the
Christian population is being deliber-
ately exterminated, the men of military
age being killed and the younger wom'
en- seized for Turkish harems, compelled
to become Mohammedans and kept with
children in virtual slavery.
tThe 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 muir
dered en- route.
Helpless Women Are Drowned
"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 out to sea,
threw them overheard and drowned
them all, men, women, and children.
his was seen and described by the
Italian consul.
"The roads and the hillsides are
strewn with corpses Of innocent peas
ants.
1--WE can all try to send aid to the
miserable refugees now in Russian ter
ritory, but what man can stop the mas
sacresf Not the allied powers at war
with Turkey.
"Only one power can take action for
that purpose. 1t is Germany. Would
not the expression of American public
opiuion, voicing the conscience of neu,
Etral nations, lead Germany to check the
Turkish government"
In addition to the official informa,
tion forwarded by Ambassador Nor
genthau and the plea issued by Wis
count Bryce, Nubar Pasha, the diplo
matte representative of the Katholik os,
the head of the Armenian Church, has
forwarded statements to America whicn
declare that 100000 Armenians have
been killed since the war broke out
while 100000 are homeless and in tho
greatest distress, out Of total popu.
lation of 100000.
The Dedeaghatch correspondent Of
the London Times says that the "mo,
dus operandi is to send from each Ar,
mepian village day by day as many
persons as an train can carry.
"When they arrive at KOnish, or
some adjacent station, they are turned
out and an escort supplied over the
Taurus mountains. Once on the other
Sue 'nty are supplleu WIN enough
food for few days and told to con,
time their journey to the neighborhood
or Mosul, as they will now be in per.
feet safety. But in point of fact the
region is heset by marauding bands of
Kurds or Bedouins who rob and pillage
these helpless men, women and children
so that those who are not actually slain
die of hunger and thirst Not one ever
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