Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-03

take place daily near our school build tngs before our very eyes, our school work has sunk to a level which is aIr insult to all human sentiments. How can we masters possibly read the stories of Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs' with our Armenian children, how can we bring ourselves to decline and conjugate, when in the collrtyards opposite and next to our school build l the starving con1patriots of our pu- pills?
 Girls. boys, and women, all prac- tically naked. lie on the ground | breathing their last sighs amid. the dying and among the collins put out "Forty to effty people reduced to 1 skeletons are all that is left of the 2,Oo0 to 5000 healthy peasant women | driven down here from Upper Arnen- | ia- The good looking ones are dec | imated by the vice of their gaolers, whilst the ugly ones are victimized | by beatings, hunger, and thirst. Even | those lying at the waters edge are not allowed to drink. Europeans are pro 1 hibited from distributing bread among l them. More than hundred corpses are taken out daily from A1eppo. | "All this is taking place before the eyes of highly placed Turkish off, l cials. Forty to fifty people reduced to ] skeletons are lying heaped up in a yard near our school They are prac- tieally insane, and have forgotten how to eat. If one offers them bread they push it indifferently aside. They ut- ter low groans and await death.
 "Ta-alim el alrnan (the cult of the Germansl is responsible for this, the natives declare.
 It will always remain a terrible stain on Germany's honor among the | generations to come.
 ! 'The more educated inhabitants ot 1 Aleppo maintain that the Germans dc not really approve of these eutrages Perhaps the German people, too are l ignorant of these events. How would | it be possible otherwise for the usual | ly truth loving German press to re- port the humane treatment of Armen- 1 tans accused of high treason? But Ii may be that the German Government 1 hands are tied by reason of certain contracts. No when it is a question l of thousands Of helpless women ant 1 children who are being driven to cer- tain death, by starvation the words 1 'opportun' and -'Kompetenzyertag ge 1 can no longer have any meaning Every cultured human being is com petent to intervene, and it is, in fact his sacred duty to do so. Our esteem | among the generations to come is a stake. The more refined Turks ant Arabs shake their heads sorrowfully | when they see brutal soldiers bringing
 
 far advanced in pregnancy, whom they beat with cudgels, these poor wretclles l being hardly able to drag themselve! | along.
 There are, moreover, dreadful heca 1 tombs of human beings, as shown i, | the inclosed decree of Driemal Pasba- 1 ''This is a proof that Tn certaiT places the light is feared, but people have not yet the will to put an end tC | these scenes, which are degrading tt l mankind.
 We know that the Foreign Of1c' has already received descriptions O the local conditions of affairs iron other sources. Since, however, tn, procedure of deportation has in nC way been ameHorated, we feel it more than ever our duty to submit this re port for your persual.
 Above all, we realize to the full thc danger with which German prestige i here threatened.
 DIRECTOR HUBER, .FDR. NIEPAGE. l "IR GRFATNER ssT SfFTEyT FTR D