The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-14
Germans of Lowest Type Sent
To Prosecute ArmenianS.
100000 Slaughtered Recently
by Order of the Governor.
BURY SICK WOMAN ALIVE
Shoot Down Weak as Thou
sands of Women DepOrted.
Turks Respect Traditional
Rights; Germans Nothing.

Bombay, Aug. lathe following
statement given to the Associated
Press by a British officer now in
hospital here presents a vivid picture
of the sufferings undergone by the Ar
menians, of which comparatively lit
tie first hand information had NTH
erto been forthcoming
Before 1 was wounded beyond
Bagdad. I came into contact on sew
erai occasions with highly educated
Armenian who has escaped from the
Turks and was being employed by us
as an interpreter" the officer said
THE stories he told of the inhuman-
were appalling. I made notes of his
conversation and will reproduce his
story"
The interpreters story follows:
Dante's Inferno a Heaven.
what you have read and heard
about Armenia is not hundredth
part of the truth. Dante's Inferno
hell that the Turks have made of my
country.
Something of the awful reality of
the past twelve months I have myself
seen in passing thru on the way to the
front. At Aleppo there are four fac
tories in which, under the supervi-
sion of deported Armenians two thou
sand Armenian women are being en-
ployed under terrible conditions. The
women are all deportees. One of
them said to me:
Ion a halt during our deportations
1 saw gendarme bury a sick woman
alive. Cold blooded murders were an
everyday occurrence. Our guards had
orders to kill on the spot any one who
Jagged. Often several were killed at
once, and there was no separate grave
for them-the bodies were just
thrown into a ditch together and COW
cred. 1t was all horrible to behold
but our eyes eventually became hard
ened to the sight
Massacre 100000 Armenians.
Bats, Messguene, and Zor are three
places never to be forgotten by us Ar
menianS. l have visited them. Do
you know what happened there a few
months since? BY order of the gov
ernor, Aft, nearly one hundred
thousand of my brothers were muir
dered. massacred by armed ,Circas-.
slams.
AT Bosanti, I saw six railway
trucks of little Armenian children be-
ing dispatched to an unknown des-
tination.' What had these little in
nocents done to offend? Was it the
mere fact of being alive and being
sons and daughters of our thrice un-
happy race?
1.-THE German soldiers that one sees
around the stations in Armenia are
behind the Turks in their disregard
for the rights of our people
Nothing Sacred to Germans.
Their cruelty is little different
from that of the Turks but the diff
ference is only of one kind. The
Turk for example often respects GER
tain things which we have learned to
associate with our religious or racial
beliefs. The German has no respect
for anything. Nothing is too sacred
for his profane hands. The Turk
frequently showed some respect and
Difference to the upper class Armeni-
ans, the educated people, regarding
useful even in a Turkish dominion.
The German soon pointed out that
the educated Armenian was the most
dangerous of all and instigated the
Turks into organizing a ruthless per-
secution of the intellectual classes of
the offices of the conservative news
paper, Asadamard. arrested all the
staff and deported them.
Suffering NameIess Miseries.
zone day 1 walked from a place
where thousands of innocent women,
girls and children were bivouacked
suffering nameless m1serieE I walked
more to gaze upon them and I came
to a hill where 1 saw little child.
The child cried to me:
Give me, for Gods sake. a piece
of bread. For five days rave eaten
nothing ut this he pointed to
melon skin lying on the road.
1.-The waters of the Euphrates and
the sands of the deserts of Mesopo-
tamia, are the graves OF the whole
Armenian nation can no longer
weep. My tears have frozen in my
eyes"