The sun., 1916-12-31
LRMENIANS SUFFER
UNTOLD MISERIES
fortunes inflicted by Turks
Only Hinted At in British
Blue Book.
NURSES SEE MASSACRE
Ipoffcnsivc Residents Slaugl-
tered-MOthcrs Arc
! Brutality Treated.
NURSES SEE MASSACRE

LoypoS. Dec. ia report on the
treatment. OF the A,menians in Turkey
NJ been issued as "A Blue Book by the
Srit,,h Government. and II now being
vublshed for general circulation. The
rspor,. which has been edited under the
direction Of Lord Bryce, presents an ap-
proyima,ely complete collection OF first ,
\ hand evidence on the atrocities. The
4 documents come principally from neu-
trail residents In Turkey WHO have made
their way out Of tho country. hut there
also are some OF German authorship:
This evidence Is analysed In a preface
By. Lord Bryce In which he says In part:
"Iet US look at the evidence itself.
"N) Nearly oil Of II comes from eye !
witnesses, some OF whom wrote II down
themselves. while others gave II 10 per-
soas who wrote II out L.; the time from
the statements given o them orally.
Nearly all of IL. moreover. was written
Immediately after the events described.
when the witnesses recollection was still
fresh and clear.
"ts) The main facts rest upon evil
| dence coming from different and indie
pendent sources. When the same fact
10 stated by witnesses who had no COM
munication with one another. n In
many cases did not even cpcak the same
language, the presumption In favor OF
It's truth becomes strong.
! Accuracy Vouched For.
Take for instance the evidence re-
earding the particularly terrible events
At Treb,zond. We have "A statement from
the Italian Ccnsul-t;eneral from the
Kavass Of the local branch OF the Otto
man Bank, Il Montenegrin under Italian
protection. and from an Armenian girl
whose family lived In the neighhorhood
Of the Italian Consulate. and who was
brought out of Turkey by the Italian
Consul-General as his maidservant. The
testimony ot these three witnesses cN-
actly TALES. not only as 10 the public
crimes committed In the city before they
HNeft Il. but also ar to their personal rela-
\ lions with one another ,for they each
! mention the others explicitly IN their
several st%atsinerts).
"Yet they were IN no touch whatever
with one another when their respective
testimonies were given. The Consul
General gave Ills at Rome. IN an in
,erv!ew with an italian journalist: the
Kavass gave his IN an Interview With
an Armenian gentleman In Egypt. and
the girl hers IN Euinaula TO a compa-
riot resident IN that country. The threo
statements h,d certainly never been col
lated Till they came by different c,ian-
! uels into the hands of the editor % his
n ,ook. In addition to this. there Is a
statement from another foreign resident
at Trebisond, which reached us through
America.
"(3) Facts OF the same or OF n very
similar nature occurring In different
places are deposed to by different and
\ independent witnesses. As there Is every
! reason to believe-and indeed 1t Is hard
| ~ denied-that the massacres and de-
portations were carried out under gem
era, orders proceeding from CONSTANT
nople. the fact that persons who knew
only what was happening in n To-
rality record circumstance there
broadly resembling those which oc-
Cured in another locality goes 10 show
the general correctness OF both sets OF
accounts.
Nurses witness Massacre.
'Thus. the two Danish Re- Gross
AttSurses state that they twice witnessed
Nie massacre. In cold blood. OF gangs OF
pnarmed Armenian soldiers. employed
IN navy work.. along the road from
ErzindjaD TO Slvas. In Document Z
written at Constant!nople) We find a
statement thai other gangs OF unarnicd
Armenian soldiers were similarly muir
dered on the roads between Ourfa and
D.yarbekir. and D~lyarbeliir and ttar-
pout and the massacre on this latter
section OF road Is confirmed by a Ger
man lady, resident at the time at Har-
pout.
Perhaps the most terrible feature OF
r,ll was the suffering OF the women with
child. who were made to march with the
convoys and gave birth to the babies
on the road. This Is alluded TO In
Document IL. from a German source at
second hand. but In Documents 1873 and
1877 we ave tho testimony OF neutral
witnesses who actually succored these
victims, SO far as the extremity OF their
plight and the brutality OF their escort
made succor possible. II should he
mentioned tina. IN Document IS an
Armenian exile t~estiiies TO the ktndness
~ an ind Turkish gcndarnc To
one OF her fellow victims who was IN
these straits.
"This preface Is Intended 10 dea! only
with the cerdibility of the evidence here
presented. so ! will refrain from COM
1nent on the facts. \ single observa-
ton, or rather II single question. may.
however. DE permitted from one who
has closely followed the history Of the
Turkish East for more than forty years.
European travellers n often com
mended the honesty and the kindness
o. the Turkish ~peasantry. and our sol
eers have said that they are fair Tight
err. Against them ! have nothing 70
say. and will even add that ] have
Aknown individual Turkish officials who
Impressed me as men of honesty and
good will.
Leng record Of Oppression.
But the record of the rulers oil
Turkey for the las, two or three ceE'
,uuries, from the Sultan on his throne
sown to the district nlute,sarif Is. taker
as a whole. an almost unbroksn record
@ corruptlon. OF injustice. of an OPP
Preston which often rises into hideou:
cruelty. The Young Turks. when the.
aeposed Abdul Hand, came forward al
we apostles OF freedom. promising edua
nights and equal treatment to all otto
man subjects. The facts here RECORDED
snow how that promise was kept. car
We sun continue TO hope that the evll'
VI such a Government are curable! o.
ooes the evidence contained In this vol
VINO furnish the most terrible and con
vncing proof that II ran no longer b.
4pSrmitted to rule over subjects OF
Inherent faithy"
New extracts taken at random follow
Between May 10 and 80 1900 Of III
moat prominent Arinenians and othe
christians. without distinction Of con
,,sssion. were arrested In tho vilayets o
C.ysroekir and Mam0uret-ul-AxiI. d
~ 10 S7t Of them were embarked ol
yftsen Tigris hargss. under tho pretex
~ they we're TO bc taken TO Mosul. tn
fave a'de-de-esmp. assisted by TN