Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
100000 GREEKS
TURKISH VICTIMS
NOT SATISFIED WITH THEIR
ATROCITIES AGAINST SYRIANS
AND ARMENIANS, TURKS TURN
ON GREEKS.


the slaughter of hundreds of thou
sands of Armenians and Syrians, the
Turk has also turned against the Greek
Christians in his dominions and more
than 100000 have fallen victim to
to the persecution in the form of
death, suffering or deportation, it was
declared here today by Frank w. Jack
son, of this city, chairman of the Re-
lief Committee for the Greeks of Asia
Minor. He said the real details of
! hese new Turkish atrocities were
just beginning to leak out,
The story of the Greek deporta-
ton is not yet generally known" said
Mr. Jackson, "quitely and gradually
the same treatment is being meted out
to the Greeks as to the Armenians.
Although closely guarded, certain
echoes of these horrors come out
rom time to time.
There were some two or three mill
ion Greeks in Asia Minor at the out
breay Of the war in 1914, subject to
Turkish rule According to the latest
reliable authoritative accounts some
seven to eight hundred thousand have
been deported, mainly from the coast
regions into the interior of Asia Minor
1.-THE Greeks of Asia Minor have
always been law-abiding and perfect
" loyal to the Turkish government.
Under Abdul Humid they were well
treated, but his successors adopted
q program to crush them.
AT the declaration of the present
war all prosecutions were stopped
but the spring of 1916 brought to the
stage tragic, novel drama unique in
the history of the world as to its hor-
rors and destructiveness, that is the
Armenian deportation; under that IN
nocent name the determination of
Christian race was started.
along with the Armenians most Of
he Greeks of Marmora regions and
Thrace have been deported on the pre-
ext that they gave information to the
enemy. Along the Aegean coast Ava
TX stands out as the worst sufferer.
According to one report some 10000
Greeks there have been deported to-
! ward Koria and beyond. At least
: 1000 have been slaughtered. The
3reek Bishop Of Aivalik committed
uicide in despair
THE latest account from Trebizond
: hows the towns along the Black sea
t are being emptied of their Greek pop
lation. From Lyndon S. Crawford
missionary of the American Board ct
Trebizond we have a letter dated July
, "a, 1917, in which he says the follow
: ing order came from Turkish army
t eadquarters at Sheishehie: By
I 20 July let no Greek man over 10
i, and under 50 be found in Ordou. Send
all such on into the interior. AS for
the families, we will send further
orders later
: Mr.. Crawford also wrote First
I let us express once more our thank
!. illness to God for the deliverance He
7 has sent us by the great, grand Rus
sian army and people. We are more
0 and more approaching what the Rus
S SLAMS have done for this region. I'M
g mediately after the Russian occupation
S of this province in April, 1916, hum
!. dreds of Armenians began to come
0 out of their hiding places.
a From the Greek Minister to the
United States, Georges Rousses, I
I have letter September 81, 1917, IN
l which he says:
: Backed by the Germans, the Turks
have put into execution and even
: organized their wildness. They have
e decided to exterminate the Greek ele-
rent which is the most important and
, most numerous in Asia Minor
, "'Under the pTetext of necessities
g al war entire populations have been
] daported Members of families have
t zen separated The old, the men UNI
/. fit for military service and the wo-
men. were sent into the interior Of
lie country, abandoned without the
Iightest help exposed to all sorts of
dapriyations. The men fit for mill
tary service were taken by force intc
he army despite the fact of having
paid for exemption; some Of the
wealthiest have been even called on
to pay this exemption fee three times
over.
The Relief Commute for the Greeks
of Asia Minor, Mr.. Jackson said, has
been organized for non-political and
. purely humanitarian purposes and aims
at securing means to aid these Greeks
reduced by sudden prosecutions to
safe of want