New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-28
Abdul the Beloved
How He Promoted Kultur on Behalf
of the Kaiser
Re ~. Fd;tor If The Tribune.

re the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your admirable leader "rbs
Kai.er's Answer" published on Sep,emb.,
% won describe the ally Of Gott rs "s.andin,
nv while his unspeakabe Turkish ally dis
ri, best TO exterminate the helpless popul..
ton Of Armenia
II il time now 20 realize fully that Kaiser
Wilhelm not only conniycd AZ the abominabl,
extirpation of the Armenian, By the TURK
Int that. in fact, he willcd and planned Il,
After the makeshift Treaty Of Berlin. Enx.
land oadcavored to have the question o.
Armenian reforms settled, but she was con.
gronted by the surreptitous opposition ~
Germany. Not until 1881 did Germany reveal
lcr hand. as will be seen from the subjoined
dispatch which Lord Granville sent on Febru.
airy 10, 1881:
an consequence o. the objection raised bv
the German government, Nr. Goschen will
not be instructed to put forward the Armen.
ian question Immediately on his return 70
Constantinople.'
The intermittent prosecutions Of n.
Armenians eliminated In the horrible mas.
acres Of 1895 and 1896. The public sent.
ment Of the civilized world was aroused and
humanity demanded the chsstisement OF III.
r,probate Turk. Two years later, however.
the German Emperor rushed TO Constants.
rople and clasped the blood-staincd rand Of
Abdul Hamid. In the same year, on No7en-
Der 3. 1898, Kaiser Wilhelm, while laying
wreath on the tomb Of Sultan Ss,sdin, a,
Damascus, harangued:
81 seize upon this opportunity TO express
my gratitude to His Imperial Majesty IN.
Sultan Abdul Hamid, in whose sincere loy.
for me / glory. I assure you that the Ger.
man Emperor will be the loving friend o,
the great Sultan Abdul Hsmid, rs we'll as
of the 300 900 Moslems wao, though liy-
ing in different parts Of TIE world, ar. By
| bonds of the Caliphate attached 70 him for.
ever"
After the Balkan wars Germany again frus-
trated the efforts toward the execution %
reforms in the six Armenian provinces under
Turkish rule. A prominent Armenian Who
had gone to Berlin with the hope Of enlist
( ing the sympathy Of the German Foreign
, Office was told bluntly: "Reforns in Armenia
will eventually lead 20 an Armenian ind..
pendent state. And this will conflict with
the German interests
what were the German interests as con.
ceived by the Kaiser and his camarls'
Germany had utterly failed in colonization.
Marshal Won Moltke, after extensive travel
in Turkey, regarded the Sultan's domain as
offering an excellent field for German colo
nzation. According to Herr 2. Roh-bach, the
German Emperor By his espousal Of Ia.
cause Of Turkey manifested 'the orientstion
Of the German policy toward the East"
Now, the most fertile provinces. situated in
tie heart Of Turkey, belonged 70 the Armen-
ians, an intelligent and enterprisng peopi.,
whom the deluge Of overlooking Hun settlers
could not easily inundate Therefore, IN.
ally of Colt und Allah resolved 10 secure
"a place in the SUM- for the Germans on
the graves of the Armenian nation.
NJ Victor Berard, the eminent French pub.
licjst. AYERS that as soon as the German in.
fuence came 20 predominant over Turkey the
Armeniahs were more systematically perse-
cuted, tortured and massacred. After the
massacres of 1896 and 1909. perpetrated By
the order Of Abdul Hamid,' y. Berard writes,
"the Young Turks undertook 20 eX,irps,e
systematically the Armenian nation, and the
work of extirpation was being executed in
those provinces where one day the Bag.
, dad Railway would transport the German
colonies"
Germany is responsible equally for the sad
Right of Armenia, Belgium, Poland and
Serbia. And when The Tribune queries the
Kaiser, what about Italia Irredenta and
Alsace- Lorraine ~ it should add also: What
about Armenia"
An independent, united Armenia will be
the only bulwark against the "drang mach
0sten" policy of psn-Germanism Otherwise,
Kaiser Wilhelm will have Won the world war
he will have attained his purpose.
ARSHAG NAHDESIAN.
New York, Sept ~, 1917.