Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-17
TWO MILLION ARMENIANS
SLAIN BY YOUNG TURKS
specin' Correspondent or Parf. .Jour-
nal Continues investigation
Into Nas>arrcs

Especial Cable to Tho Times Disnatch
PARIS. July lG.-rhc Journal con
,inues its inquiry into tho Armenian
fiiassacreS, ana its special corrcspon-
den, AZ Erz"rrm writes:
~ he mere mention Of tho figures al
times exceeds in tragic clouucnce the
most pathetic rcoitals At the begin
ninS OF the year 1878 there were in
TURKEY > 100000 Armcnians. To-day
there remain but sos. 600.
Iwo million human beings. four
niths OF Il nation observation-disclosures
Is 'he work OF tho Young Turk gov
crnm"n'. government which. when
II came into power. was acclaimed by
me Who'll" OF civilized Europe rs a
humanitarian and progressive one
he Central Armenian Bureau at
Iiiils asccrtaius that the number Of
AFinenians who have escaped massa-
ere ana been deportcd 10 Mcsopotamia
is only in round figures 100, 600. and
inns number is daily on the wanc, as
they die in large numbers owing to
disease" privation and bad treatment
1t Is believed that 100000 Arme-
mans arc still in Cecilia, and there arc
about 10000 others in the western
countries of Asia Minor. The number
81 mos" s'iii at Constantinople and
smyrna is estimated at 10000.
These figures give a total of $50
hoo survivors. which is no doubt tho
maximum To this number should be
added 100000 refugees, who succeeded
III crossing the Russian frontier and
arc in til. Caucasus.
An tho other Armcnians persisted
RESPONSIBILITY RESTS WITH
YOUNG TURK GOVERNMENT
The whole Of the responsibility for
the nlassacres rests with the Young
Turk government. ana il is these
their accompiices, the German authori-
ties in Constantinople conceived and
ordered the massacre. and il is they
Who urged the savage ndrdS to carry
out the murders and also. wherever
possible, the Mussulmana. by means OF
arousiug their fanaticism.
Moreover, all Christians have been
other prosecuted or massacrcd. The
superior OF tho French Dominic. n
mission tho Reverend Father Bernard,
vino lived in Van until the arrival of
the Russian troops. has furnished the
correspondent OF The journal with a
list OF the victims.
The Armenian Catholic bishop OF
Mardtnc. Mous.igncur MHloyaH. was
massacrcd with number of his par
ishloncrs. MousciGneur lsralian. bish-
on OF kharpou, was massacrcd on the
way To exile between Orfa and Diar-
bckr, as We'll as number OF his
priests ana some sisters and a num-
Der of parshioncrs
''Monsei gneur khard jadourian. of
Malatiou, was strangled. The Cha ldean
bishop and Bishop Surcn, of Djexi-
rah. together with Il certain number
"f their priests and Sisters Regime
Ratio, were assassinatcd 1t is be-
ltcvcd thai MonseiGncur Tohclcbian. Of
biarbckr. met with the same fate All
tho Chnidoau and syrian priests at
Sccrt had ih.ir Threats cut
1T is quite certain that all tho Ter
tiary Sisters of the Presentation were
killed, ana this tate also overlook the
priests ct Med"ah, Sucva kdc Dcreke
and Eevan Ohahir
The Young Turk government. of
course, did not respect religious edi-
fees after the expulsion OF tho French
missionaries. Their establishments
were pillaGed and then either dcmol-
ished or converted into Mussulman
schools"