El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-08
MAS5ACRESARE
GERMAN ORIGIN
FrightfuI Atrocities in
Turkish Armenia Forced
by Germany.

New York, Oct. S.-The plan to ex-
tirpate the Armenian Christians from
Turkey was made in Germany and
suggested TO the Turks by German
officials" and where the Armenians
made a stand against their Moslem
oDpressors It was German officers and
German cannon that broke them up,
according to the Rev. Alpheus Newell
Andrus, senior missionary for the
CONGREGATIONAL station at Mardin.
Meso7otamia, who told OF his expert
ences here today. The farsiEhted
Germans. he said. were looking for
ward to the time when they expected
to gain comnlete dominion in Turkey
and they wanted to eliminate the Ar
menian question by getting rid OF the
Armenian race
300 Men Dumped Into River
"One Of the ways the Turks went
about IL was to load Armenian men
on goatstin RATS on the understand
ing that they were to be dcported, and
then they we're taken out and dumped
into the Tigris river and drowned he
said. This was the fate Of at least
. $500 u~n from the vicinity OF Dl1r he
kir and its suburbs in norothen Meso-
potamia-
ARMED soldiers were on the RATS.
which each carried about % to 100
victims Kurd boatmen rowed them
out into deep water Inen the SOL
diers would drive the Armenians 10
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 and bOatmen beat them
and shot them until all persisted"
CoIdbIooded POIifieaI Move.
The Germans and the Turkish gov
eminent. Dr. Andrus said. looked upon
the destruction OF the Armenians IN
Turkey as cold-blOoded political
move. and gave the actual execution
OF it into the hands OF the Kur4s and
Turkish soldiers. who went about u
with the ferOLlty OF Aoslem reAslous
at first the Turkish government
objected 70 the German suggestion OF
the removal OF the Armenians, on the
grounds that they were valuable rs
artisans and business men and ueces-
try" continued DR.. Andrus. but the
Germans promised TO supply men to
take their places Having persuaded
the Turks. the Germans then left Il
to them to put the plan into effect
Germans Complete Slaughter
"But the Turkish soldiers In some
places could not overcome the ArIne-
mans. At Crfa. the city Of suffer
ing the Armeuians resolved 20 resist
deportation and defend their innocent
families and their church They bar
ricaded themselves in their stone
houses in their quarter. For ten dars
they withstood all the efforts OF tho
Turkish soldiery to dislodge them.
In the end they would have prevailed
but that German officers brought and
trained cannon upon their stronghold
and forced them to flee
surely such . people should not be
allowed TO perish There still rer1a II
Of them 20 be cared FOR $500 IN Urfa
and nearby. VIII not the American
people help care for them2 Condi-
tons in 1Tcsopotamia have not been
brought much TO the nublc's alton
ton. for the reason that there has
not been anyone to report ~ state
of things there and because no re-
1 port could set past the rigid Turkish
l censorship
More than $4,000 Armenians were
LGeported from Diarhckir End its sub
urbs. It was some OF these who were
dumped into the Tigris and drowned
I The leading ard rich men were
among these The others were de-
tailed 10 dig trenches and 10 do other
work with On insufficient allowance
/ of bread daily. Later t1ev were shot
I In groups when no longer able 10 en-
dure the hardshius imposed.
Put 1000 LETT Of CO Geo.
/ There followed an epidemic %