The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-10-12
ARMENIAN MURDERS
LAID At HUNS DOOR
BY A MISSIONARY
Plan to Extirpase the Christians
from Turkey Was Made in
Germany Is Declaration Made
by Congregational Pastor.
~ A,sssi.,.d Pres.

oxtirpate the Armenian Christians
from Turkey was made In Germany
and suggested 20 the Turks by Ger
man officials" and where the Ar
menians made a stand against their
Moslcm oppressorS IL was German OF
Ulcers and German cannon that broke
them up, according to the REV. Al
pheus Newell Andrus, senior mission
AIRY for the congregational station az
Mitrdin, M~csopotamia. who tod OF
his experiences here. The ~farsighted
Germans. he said. were looking for
ward to the time when they expect
ed 60 gain complete dominion In Tuf-
key and they wanted to eliminate the
Armenian question by getting rid or
the Armenian race.
zone of the ways the Turks went
about IL was 20 load Armenian men
on goatskin RATS on the understand
ing tina they were 20 he deported,
and then they were taken out and
dumped into the Tigris river and
drowned" he said, This was the
fate OF at least $500 men from the
vicinity Of piarhekir and its suburbs
in northern Mesopotamia.
Armed soldiers were on the rata.
which each carried about seventy-fiVe
To q hundred victims. Kurt hoatmen
! rowed them out into deep water. Then
the soldiers would drive the Arme-
mans to one side OF the rats until
they tilted and dumped them into the
| river. II they tried to Climb back on
the RATS the soldiers ana boatInen
beat them ana shot them until all
perished.''
The Germans and the Turkish gov-
Dr Andrus said, looked up-
on the destructio NOT the Armenians
In Turkey as a cold blOoded political
move. ana gave the actual execution
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Turkish soldiers who went about IL
with the ferocity OF Moslem religious
fanaticisn.
AT first The Turkish government
objected TO the German suggestion
Of the removal OF the Armenians on
the grounds tina; they were valuable
as artisans and business men and nee
essnry 10 the economic life Of the
country continued DIR. Andrus, but
The Germans promised 10 supply men
to takc their places. Having per-
suaded the Turks, the German left
II 20 them to put the plan into effect.
But the Turkish soldiers In some
places could not overcome the Ar
menlans. At Crfa, the city Of sur
| fering. the Armenians resolved 10 re-
sist deportation and defend their in
nocent families and their church.
They barricadcd themselves in then
stone houses IN their quarter. For
ten days they withstuOd al lthe efforts
| Of the Turkish soldiers To dislodge
them. In the end they would nave
! prevailed hut that German officers
brought and trained cannon upon
their stronghold and forced them to
flee.
surely such q people should not
be allowed to perish. There still re-
main OF them 20 be cared for $500 in
Urfa and nearby. win not the Amer
A .--a- L.N. 1901. f. FN.H.H % NfAn-
| ditlcns In Mesopotamia have not been
brought much to the puhlsc's att"u-
ton for the reason that there has not
been anyone to report tn" state OF
things there and because no report
could get past the rigid urkish cen
sorship.
"Aiors than 10000 Armcnians were
| deported from Diarbekir and is sub
urbs. IL was some Of these who were
! Jumped into the Tigris ana drowned.
| The leading and rich men were among
| these. The others were detailed To
| dig trenches and 70 do other work
| with only an insufficient allowance OF
bread daily. Later they were shot
IN groups. when no longer abe 10
endure the hardships imposed.
There followed an epidemic o.
| cholera n then a scourge of typhus.
| Before the wal and deportations the
| city contained some $4,000 lnhabi-
| ,ants. The last ! heard there were
| 1000 citizens left there.
women were dubbed. stabbed or
shot down on the Mesopotamian
| the ground or thrown into old els
terms. Some, coming To consciousness
| crawled out from the piles n up
| from the cisterns and dragged theih-
| selves up the mountain 20 our nos
| pital at Mardin 10 have their WOUNDS
| dressed.
took pity upon more than n Thousand
babies Of deporsed women who' ~
missing through. left those they mao
no milk 10 feed or strcngth 10 carry
us hey went on 10 their lingering
| deaths on the plains helow Nh'l
tho local government ottirlhls I'"It''u
than Moslems had tho little ones th'g
issued am order that Nho"N"r
ann Armenian would be visited with
the treatment dealt To the Armenlans
nThc Moslcms. therefore, secretly
turned tho little mes over To- 'hrls'
tlun families who clandcStih"l} 'al'V
for Thorn until their resources We're
exhausted. Ana now the itt'si IN
formation from Marulh IN 'hn' u"'
l.st funds are Immediately toiil'"il'
mo thc thousand orphans u bt
,,rped out upon the streets 20 statNe
uIt,ln must be regular ana cuhlh'
unus The committee FOR Armenian
@n1 Syrinn relief has decided th"t >
n,onth per child viii hc necessary
rb,t h. about ~ cents a day, VINE
atu ada one more child 10 his family
and reckon the ~ cents along WIZ
vhnt he rs spending daily ON his "thel
'btiJrep and AT the end Of each montf
srnd the s. 20 the committee
ur Anarus himself narrowly 49,
can.d execution at the % ui lh'
Turks because al his work ut Maruli
in s~uccnring the suffering lie WA'
nrdered 60 be court martihled, Whlcl
under the conditions, ne said, mean
n "mock trial and the cutting "i'
~ tho defendants head me Ar.
reuinn embassy. however, heard oI
i Inc order and intrrfrrcd so mat d
was rescinded and "a decree 81 cAll'
issued instead
On. Audrus, who was born 900 New
r York CITY aud graduated from WI
i liams college lu 1855, and Union the
c, oloricni seminary in 1885,, spent mt
4 vears in missionary work ut Mardin.
Every day HERALD WAIST Al
: find helm. secure positions; sell article
, no longer needed. rent houses, flai'
Apartments. stores and tcal estate; FIN
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