The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-10-06

1.-THE more educated inhabitants Of
Aloppo maintain that the Germans DO
not really approve Of these outrages.
Perhaps the German people, too are
ignorant Of these events. How would II
be possible otherwise for the usually
truth-loving German press 20 report the
humane treatment Of Armenihns accused
Of high treasonf But il may be that
the German governments hands are
tied by reason Of certain contracts. No
when IL is a question Of thousands Of
helpless women and children who are
being driven 70 certain death by starva-
tion the words topportun1 and sKom-
petenzvertage, can no longer have any
meaning. Every cultured human being
is competent to intervene, and II IA. IN
fact. his sacred duty to do so. Our
esteem among the generations 20 cume
is at stake. The more refined Turks
and Arabs shake their heads sorrow.
fully when they see brutal soldiers
bringing conveys through the town Of
! women far advanced In pregnancy.
whom they beat with eudgels, these
Door wretches being hardly able to
drag themselves along.
There are, moreover, dreadful hecas
tombs Of human beings, as shown In
the inclosed decree Of Diemal Paaha.
& This Is proof that In certain
/ places the light is feared, but people
have not yet the win to put an end TO
these scenes, which are degrading 20
"we know that the foreign once
he's already received descriptions Of the
local conditions Of affairs from other
sources. Since, however the procedure
Of deportation has in no way been
ameliorated, We feel Il more than ever
perusal IA 4
- Above MI, we realize 10 ~ TN. a..
danger with which German prestige Is
here threatened
/ ssDIREcToR HUBER
] s'DR. NIEPAGE,
j "DR. GRAETNER,
ssM. SPIELER.ss
/ A Question Of DISCRIMINATION
~ am going to tell You more about
the Armenian episode,ss Doctor Graet-
ner says in his own letter. ssfor this
\ time the question was not one Of the
traditional massaefes, hut Of nothing
I more nor less than the complete e..
termination Of the Armenians in.
Turkey This fact Tnlaaf. Bey,s Turk.
ish officials cynically admitted with
some embarrassment TO the German
consul, The government first made out
that they only wanted to clear the war
zone and to assign new dwellings to
the emigrants
n" They began by enticing the most
warlike of the mountaineers out Of
their rocky businesses. This they did
with the help Of the securities Of the
Turkish Empire, of the heads Of their
own churches, of the American mis-
sionaries, and of one GERMAN consul.
Thereupon began expuisions from
everywhere, even from districts to
which the war will never be carried.
How these were effected Is shown from
the fact that out of the n 900 people
driven out of Charput and Sivas only
$50 reached Aleppo, and only eleven
out Of the 1000 from Erzerum. Once
mt Aleppo the poorest Of these were by
no means at the end Of their troubles.
Those who did not die here, 1.-THE ceme-
teries ARE FULL. were driven BY night
to the Syrian Hteppes, toward the znr
on the Euphrates. Here very small
percentages drag out their existence.
threatened by starvation
/ ttI state this as an eyewiiness. /
was there in October Of last year and
saw with my own eyes several Armen-
ian eorpses floating in the Epphrates
or lying about the steppe
Herman onicers bar Help
1.-THE Germans, with a humber Of
iapdable exceptions, witness these
Filings quite unperturbed, holding out
'hc following excuse:
j ''We just need the Turks. YOU see!,
4 il'fI knowNfof fact. mpreover, that
m emplcSe of the German cotton asso-
ciation aud one on the Bagdad railway
@ere forbidden 20 help the Armenians.
German officers have also raised. q com
lrirt ar'ssinst their consul for his sym.
Pathy with the Armenians, and a Ger,
4 ran teacher, although most capable.
."rs rci appointed 70 school Of the
4 TnTeo-German association on account
l'ofh having an Armenian wife. Thew
are afraid that the Turks might take
ofrepse ri this. The Turks are less
,eonsiderate..
i ",cThe a,@stion i one Of Turkish
4 internal affair; we must not mix our.
selves m in it,S This Is what one
rorstantlY hears pooDle say.
\ "The Armenians Of urfa. seeing the
4 fate which had befpllen their com,
rstriots from other districts, refused 10
ic""c their eitv and offered resistance.
! '"hcrruron 70 less a person thar Count
""lf voN wolfskehl ordered the town
4 20 10 h"rharded. ard after the surren,
t'rr Of lo00 Armenian men he had not
the power TO nreyent their being mas.