The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-14
ARMENIAN NATION
BEING BUTCHERED
NONE BE LEFT BY TURKS UNLESS
ENGLISH ARMIES SOON
SUBDUE MOSLEM.
GERMANS SAY KILL
Emperor Williams Officers Urge Red
Slayers Onto Greater Savagery -
Waters of Euphrates and Sands of
Desert to BE Graves of Populace.

Bombay, July 2.-CBy MaD.-The fol-
lowing statement given to the Asso-
ciated Press by British officer now in
a hospital here presents a vivid picture
of the sufferings undergone by the Ar
menians, Of which comparatively little
frst-hand information hitherto has been
forthcoming
Before l got my wound in the fight
ing up beyond Bagdad, met on several
occasions a highly educated Armenian
who had escaped from the Turks and
was being employed by US as an in.
terpreter.
"The stories told of the inhumanities
inflicted upon his compatriots were so
appalling that l made notes Of his con-
versations and have attempted here to
reproduce them in something like his own
language 50 that you can get at the
heart Of the man and realize what he
and all educated Armenians feel. The
Interpreter was in Constantinople until
the end Of last year, when he was sent
to the front with party Of Armenians.
several of whom escaped.
Story of Horror.
The interpreters story follows:
what you have read and heard about
Armenia is not a hundredth part Of the
truth. Dante's Inferno was a heaven
compared with the hell that the Turks
have made Of my country. Something
Of the awful reality Of the past twelve
months l have myself seen in passing
through on the way to the front.
"At Aleppo, there are four factories in
which two thousand Armenian woman
deportees are being employed under ter
rible conditions. one said to me: on
halt during our deportations I saw
a 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 be-
hind Often several were killed at once,
and the bodies were just thrown into
ditch together and covered
Order Thousands Slain.
Bats. Messguene and zor are places
never to be forgotten by us Armenians.
have visited them. DO you know
what happened there a few months
since? By the order Of the governor,
Aft nearly one hundred thousand Of
my brothers were murdered, massacred
| by armed Circassians.
/ AT Bosanti. I saw six railway trucks
Of Armenian children being despatched
TO an unknown destination
-The German soldiers seen around
stations in Armenia are generally Of a
low type and not far behind the Turks
in their disregard for the rights of our
people.
Their cruelty is a little different
from that Of the Turk. but the differ
ence is only one Of kind The Turk,
for example. often respects certain
things which we have learned to asso-
ciate with our religious or racial be-
liefs: the German has no respect for
anything, nothing is too sacred for his
profane hands.
German Worse Than Turk.
: "The Turk frequently used to show
some respect and Difference to upper
class Armenians. the educated people
regarding them as perhaps capable OF
being useful even in a Turkish domin
4 ion. The German as soon as he ar
+ rived here pointed out the educated
l. Armenian as the most dangerous of all
and instigated the Turks into organic
). ing a ruthless persecution Of the intel
$ lectual classes.
e "One day they surrounded the office!
+ Of the conservative newspaper Asada
q mard arrested all the staff and deport
ed them. I know not whittier Wll
/ they ever return? Who knows?
e "One day, I walked from a place
where thousands Of innocent women
/. girls and children were bivouacked, suf
: fering nameless miseries. I walked
/. away because l could not bear an!
y more to gaze upon them and | cam'
1. to a hill where | saw a little child.
was in Turkish uniform. The chilC
) came nea- me and cried In Turkish
Give me bread. For five days hav,
eaten nothing but this He pointed L
some melon skin that had been left ly
ing in the road. I answered him II
Armenian and the poor boy jumped ul
into my arms, saying. Art thou Al
menian?' He remained there a minut
4 uttering no other word. But felt warn
/ tears falling on my cheek.
The waters Of the Euphrates. IN
sands OF the deserts OF Mesopotamla
are the graves OF the whole Armenian
nation. l can no longer weep"
IA AMERICAN HARVEST HANDS
Id WILL AID CANADA FARMER