New Britain herald., 1917-11-01
GERMANS were
ALSO CONCERNED
Responsible for Deportation Of
Greeks from Turkish Domain

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pondence) -Greek authorities have
received information which convinces
them that not alone the Turk but his
German advisers were responsible for
the deportations of Greeks from Turk
ish dOminions, as consequence OF
which 100000 have suffered persecu-
ton or death.
1t Is asserted that the Greek lega-
ton at Constanttnople protested to
the then King Constantine of Greece
from the beginning of the deporta-
lions, but received no assistance or
encouragement from him. The lega-
ton then lodged a protest with Talaat
Bey. the Turkish grand vizier.
His reply, as shown by official pa
pers, was that these measures are
taken by advice Of our German az
vtsers' The Greek legation then took
up the subject with the German gen.
eral, Liman Won Sanders, who Is de-
clared to have replied that the pres
ence Of the Greek communities within
the Ottoman empire was dangerous to
military operations ana that he was
only executing the orders of the Ger
man general STAFF
An account OF the persecution OF the
Greeks which has been given to the
Associated Press states:
THE method Of depopulation adopt
ed has been very similar to the meth
Cd adopted with regard to the Arme-
MAN races. During the night, armed
irregular troops of the Turkish army
would form Gordon around the
doomed district. The inhabitants
would be awakened by means of bells
and ordered to evacuate the village in
ten minutes, for military reasons. No
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ject being that the victims should not
be able to take anything with them.
either food or goods. In the event Of
delay, the troops drove forth the ter
rif1ed people at the point Of the boy
onet. y
THE moment that the people had
gone, hories Of bandits and irregular
soldiery poured into the empty viii
lagos and looted and burned the
houses in a frenzy Of destruction.
while the inha bitants, old men, wom-
en- and children as we'll as the able
bodied, were on the march.
ESoon after the march began, the
process of determination began to be
put into effect. Men were separated
from thir women and children. and
parties were made up for a trip to
various places. usually locations In
far-t1istant parts of Asia Minor. Need
less to say, few Of these parties ever
reached their destination, being
gradually killed off by exposures or
starvation. Thousands died in bar
rem desert lands without food Or
drink, and poorly clad, speedy death
at the hands of the soldiers would
have been welcomed by many. The
soldiery generally being content to let
%1nir ~
of refugees who attem pied escape. the
soldiery gencraly being content to let
hunger and thirst and exposure do the
work Of determination for them.
THE lot of the women and chill
dren was the usual one, which has
been described many times in &C
counts Of the Armenian deportations
Being defenseless, they fell a prey to
the first passer-by Any Turk along
the way who fancied q child or a
young woman. merely took possession,
and thousands of young Greeks are
now informed In Mussulman villages,
forcibly Converted" to Islam and
forced to live as servants or concu-
bines of the Turkish peasantry.
I'm the neighborhood of Con-
stantinoplc, many of the deportees
managed to return and appeared in
the streets Of the capital, starving.
begging and sleeping in the back
streets and alleys. To abate this
scandal, the Turkish government had
the police collect hundreds of these
wretched persons and concentrated
them at Pancaldi, where their fate Is
not yet known"
1t is declared that. as result of
; these deportations. all Greek commu-
mites have been eliminated in the
Thracian regions Of Demotica, Sufli
Istranja and Eregli, from the coast
of the sea of Marmora, from the
peninsula OF Artaki from all the VIII
lagos along the Bosphorus and from
the coast of the Black Sea.