The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-11

New YOrk, NOV. lI-fOT tIe LIB time graphic and terrible accounts of the Armenian atrocities have been re- ceived in this country from German sources.
 Letters from German conSuls, Ger man nuns and German civilians. in Turkey who witnessed the slaughter of 100000 persons, half of an en- tire race, some months ago were smuggled into Switzerland, where they were printed in German for private circulation. Some of these letters fell into French hands and became part !. of the archives of the French govern xnent.
 Finally, through private sources, re- prints of these manuscripts have reached the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, 70 Fifth Avenue, and today are published, in ! brief, in English for the first time. < The authors of the letters are not mentioned for reasons of obvious 1 prudence. Although the exact sources 2 of the information can not be gener- ally cited, however, their absolute de- portability has been youched for am- ply, and their comparison with re- ports of authoritative English ,observ- CTS stamps them as accurate in such ! details as come within the experiences of both.
 Most notably revealed in these ac- I counts are the unbelievable brutality With which the orders of extermina- 7 ton were carried out, and the resent ment of Germans within Turkey at { what Moslems interpreted as at least { the semblance of connivance of sym i pathy by the German authorities with the Turkish plans of deportation and massacre.
 Such instances of fiendish and bar- l b2ric cruelty as these recur with re quency in the accounts:
 ''In an Armenian school in Marasch l(A German civilian who died before reaching Germany saw more thai {, 100 women and children whose legs had been shot, whose arms had been ! shot and were in all stages of mu- tilation, among them children of two years"
 sT Ithe same civilian) saw the head of man lying on a heap of rub Dish, which some Turkish boys were ] using for a target
 'sThe women were undressed and robbed. and offered violence. Wom- en were insulted by civilians and men { were hung to trees and burned. V. l The women were compelled to bury < their dead.''
 "sometimes they (the Armenians) < were thrown into trenches before they were dead.''
 "One woman's two daughters were E taken from her by force; then she I took her two other children and threw them into the Euphrates.'
 ''Men were bound together in groups of 14-this was the limit that the rope could hold-and then they were shot. Some were killed with J bayonets and knives
 '.The soldiers (this is the report of < two German nuns threw the women to their knees, and threw their chill dren into the Euphrates. The fol- lowing day they hunted the refugees in the cornfields.''
 "Our Greek coachman told us the condemned had their hands tied and were then thrown into the river from a high rock.'
 .'That the Moslem population be- lieved the Germans responsible for t the orders of massacre and outrage is z evidenced throughout the letters, to- gether with the indignation of the writers that the German, officials had allowed this impression, even un- }, justly, to gain hold. Some of the writers bitterly reproach their coun- I trymen in authority for being unable or unwilling to halt the slaughter.
 .Of such reproaches the account of Dr. Martin Niepage, Professor of a German High school in Aleppo, is full. Dr. Niepage is the only author 2, of the German accounts whose name can be given, his letter copies of which now are in the hands of the French Government, having been made public recently in the form of a petition to the German government. It has been circulated privately with the other accounts collected in X Switzerland whose anonymity is en- forced by the danger to their writers of publicity. ,.
 Dr. Niepage says:
 ''The cultured Moslems are under the impression that although the Ger man people disapprove of this outrage the German government will not in- terfere on account of consideration for their Turkish confederates.
 "Cultured. sympathetic, Moham- medans, Turks as we'll as Arabs, shake their heads disapprovingly, lyeSs they QO not even try to nlOe Ln elT tears when they see these poor de- ported people travelling through a city, being beaten by the soldiers. They cannot believe that their gov eminent countenances these outrages, and try to blame the German govern sment for the atrocities which we know Turkish soldiers have perform led- Even the Mol1ahs in their mos fQues say that not the Turkish but lthe German government ordered these abuses and annihilation.
 "The things which one has wit messed here for months will remain { Ia blot on the scutcheon of Germany fin the memory Of the Orientals
 We know that the embassy in Constantinople through the consulate f1aas heard of all these things. but since the deportation rules have not been altered, we conscfentiously be- t1ieye that it is our duty to issue this report.
 At the time of writing this report Cohsul General Hoffmann succeeded former representative to Aleppo. ConsuI Hoffmann told me that the Herman embassy was time and again advised by the consulates in A1exan- drette, A1eppo and Mossul of the things which were occurring. Consul Hoffmann took pictures of the peo- ple who were opposite the school and was interested in what I had to tell U-e- a--- Az