Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-03
TURKISH ATROCITIES
DEPICTED BY DR.. C0AN
Armenian Lecturer CcnSures Amer
lea for Permitting Slaughter
OF Christian People.
For Aid Of Turkey Kaiser Promised
That No Hand Would BE Lifted
Against NIoliammedans killing
Oriental Followers Of Christ.

Picturing the atrocities perpetra ted
hammedau Turks through the direct
instrumentality of, the German gov
crpment. DR.. Frederick C. Coan, med
ical missionary to Persia. spoke to an
audience Of 900 people yesterday
afternoon in the City Auditorium and
begged the American people TO raise
s1e,o00.00o within the next year to save
the remnant OF Oriental Christianity
from the massacrcs which Americas S
selfish aloofness had d!sgracc:ully al
lowed. He made an appeal to the
United States, the last refuge OF Il dis
jointed earth to play the par, Of the
good Samaritan to the two and half
million naked. poor, despised and for
saken" derelicts OF the first Christian
world.
DIR. Coan was presented 10 the audi
ence by Mayor George A!nslie. who
briefly summed up the conditions in
the East. Mayor Ainslic said that
these slaughter stricken .Armenians
were entirely dependent on charity
and dependent practically on Amer
lean charity" The worst feature Of
il all. he said. was the fact that these
people were suffering from those who
likewise were subjects of the same gov
c"nment. which had been Tcuton
pawn for years.
PRTVATIONS OF AMERICA MI.
COMPARED TO SYRIAN TRAGEDY
DR.. Coan, following Mayor Ainsles
lead. declared that tho privations of
4 IL bat,
compared with the tragedies on the
plains of Armenia and the slopes OF
Syria. BY ins;nuation, he said. with a
force more gripping than calling Of
names. that the blood OF these people
was on the hands of the German
Kaiser. who deliberately planned and
issued orders for these slaughters un-
der the name Of the holy war" and
who had in SO doing stopped to the
lowest level OF brutality and bcstiality
recorded in history.
DIR. Coan, outlining the source Of
these massacrcs. reminded his audience
that the Armenian history dated back
TO 500 years before Christ, and that the
Armenians were the first people to
accept Christianity as religion to
live by. He declared with conviction
and sound reasoning that the mas
sacres he later depicted were tho di-
rect result OF Il German plan to gain
the influence and friendship OF the Mo-
hammcdans. lie told of The visit OF
the Kaiser to Palestine. where he pro-
claimed himself the champion OF the
Mohammedan kingdom. where to-day
800 OF every 1000 arc pro-Gcrman
All OF these massacrcS he declared to
be the result of this German plan to
unbridle the hatred and big try OF the
Mohammcdan fanatics.
That these war conditions could
have been prevented by America had
she taken the advice OF Theodore
Roosevelt and not remained Saliish'y
liaaccs'' va a direct accusation from
the speaker He denounced the just
let-it-alone- because 1t doesn't t-concern-
me attitude OF this nation with ref
erence TO the Armenian and Syrian
horrors since 1915, and claSSed America
in that one respect with Cain and the
Levite He emphasized the philosophy
that man is his brothers keeper: and.
while he didn't make it a point, yet il
was to be inferred from his argument
that the attitude Of aloofncss with
nation. as with an individual. was not
practicable. whether suggested by
Washington or Cain.
TO get control Of tho Bagdad rail-
CONTINUED on Fourth PaGe.)