Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-08
AMBASSADOR TELLS
OF ARMENIAN HORRORS
Audience in Tears at Tales of
Massacre and Starvation.
$4,000 Raised Here

\. ]. Elkus, former American Am
bassador to Constantinople. and the
Rev. Henry Riggs, president of Eu-
pirates College, Harpoot. Armenia,
moved large audience to tears when
they told OF the slaughter Of Armenians
by Turkish soldiers. in addresses at
Scottish Rite Hall.
The meeting was held under the
auspices of the Armenian Relief Com
mittee. Mrs. George Horace Lorimer
announced that more than 100000 had
been raised in Philadelphia since the
committee was formed under the chair
manship of william II. Roberts. Mr..
Elkus said:
.I have seen little children. whose
parents had been lost or murdered, lie
down and die Of stavation ~ the streets
of constantinople. The city was filled
with thousands of these little refugees
and their mothers. for most OF the men
we're killed on the way. The Turkish
Government did nothing for their relief
10 t,nI feed ,9pE the starving 4 million Of the
race have already perished and tneir
bones strew every road on that terrlole
deportation to Turkey. IL we DO not
1 come to their aSSlsthHCt tiit thtA' iieN''N''
will he slain by the sword anu py S'a'N"
tion." -, -, .,,..,,.
to doctors, nurses and other members OF
the American colony who refused to
leave Turkey when the United states
declared war on Germany, but remained
at great risk to do what they could TO
rescue the starving. He referred
/ humorously to the problems of the
| American ambassador to Turkey under
| war conditions when he found himself
the representative of ten nations and
with the embassy besieged by starving
| thousands
concern was the Standard Oil Com
| pany and the missionaries
| Doctor Riggs declared that the bishop
| of Armenia, with virtually all the lead
ing professional and business men and
| clergy of the nation, was arrested just
| before the mass lcre started and was
tortured to death in the most horrible
| manner in prison. He said that on n
| horseback ride in the euvirons of llar-
| poot he saw the bodies OF at least ten
| thousand women and children who had
| been killed with the bayonet.
Otis \. Glazebrook. late United States
consul to Jerusalem, said:
Germany would gladly give Bel
| gium, Alsace- Lorraine and every colony
she possesses for undsputed possession
| of Turkey, as some OF her leading
statesmen have admitted. The Turks
were the actual murderers of the Chris
tian Arnenians. but the plan and the
relentless thoroughness with which the
murder and deportation of the nation
was carried out were inspired from Pots.
dam. for the Kaiser knew that the Arme-
o'ans lay across the path of his pro
posed route from Berlin to Bagdad and
| would be an impeachment
In reporting on the work of Armenian
relief, Mrs. George Horace Lorimer said
"The German masters of Turkey have
brought the old barbarism. Neither
Christ nor Mahommed mattered to them
only trade. TO get from Berlin to Bag
dad they were willing to pass through a
he'll of slaughtered Christians and undel
their heel the Holy Land has been more
deflled than when the Turk was sol'
master.
THE Christian world remembers tn,
tawdry posing Of the kaiser's first visi
to Jerusalem; it will never forget thu
| black infamy of this second coming o
the prussians. Armena's cry has COM
! from Il great distance and has beei
almost drowned by calls for help tina
were nearer