The Washington herald., 1917-07-22

Special Gable TO The Washington Herald.
London July 10. Delayed)-Tales of
the ravishing of Armenians as told by a
German eyewitness. are embodied In a
report that is being published through
out the country. DR.. Martin Niepage,
who is the author of the report, was
a high grade teacher in q German
Technical School at Aleppo. and his
report, parts of which are printed
here. has been forwarded to the
German Consul at Aleppo.
According to DR.. Niepage, only the
hope of speedy relief would enable
him and his colleagues, to continue
their education work.
Our presence had no ameliorating
effect whatever" writes DR.. Niepage.
and what we could do personally
came to but little"
Herr Greif, of Aleppo, reported
corpses of violated women lying about
naked in heaps on the railway en-
bankment at Tell-Abiad and Ras-el-
Ain. Another, Herr Spiecker, Of
Aleppo, had seen Turks tie Armen-
ian men together. fire several volleys
OF small shot with fowling-pieces in
to the human mass, and go off laugh
ing while their victims slowly perish
ed in frightful convulsions. Other
men had their hands tied behind
their back and were rolled down steep
cliffs. Women were standing below,
who slashed those who had rolled
down with knives until they were
dead. A Protestant pastor who, two
years before. had given a very warm
welcome to my colleague, DR.. Graeter.
when he was passing through his
village. had his finger nails torn out.
ChlIdren's Hands Cut on.
The German Consul from Mosul re-
lated, in my presence, at the German
club at Aleppo that, in many places
on the road from MOsul to Aleppo,
he had seen children's hands lying
hacked off in such numbers that one
could have paved the road with them.
In the German hospital at Ourfa there
was a little girl who had had both
her hands hacked OF.
In an Arab village. on the way TO
Aleppo Herr Holstein, the German
Consul from Mosul saw shallow graves
with freshly-buried Armenian corpses.
The Arabs OF the village declared that
they had killed these Armenians by
the Governments orders. One assert
ed proudly that he personally had Kill
ed eight.
out of conveys which. when they
plateau, numbered from two to three
thousand men, woman and children,
only two Or three hundred survivors
arrive here in the south. The men
are slain on the way; the women
and girls, with the EXCEPTION of the
old, the ugly and those who are still
children, have been abused by Turk
ish soldiers and officers and then
carried away to Turkish and Kurdish
villages. where they have to accept
Islam. They try to destroy the rem
nant of the conveys by hunger and
thirst Even when they are fording
rivers, they do not allow those dying
OF thirst to drink. All the nourishment
they receive is a daily ration of
little meal sprinkled over their hands,
which they lick of greedily. and its
only effect is to protract their stsrva-
tion.
Suffer from Disease.
Opposite the German Technical
School at Aleppo, In which We are en-
gagged in teaching, mass of about
four hundred emaciated forms. the
remnant OF such conveys, is lying in
one of the hans. There are about
a hundred children, boys and girls,
among them, from five to seven years
old Most of them are suffering from
typhoid and dysentery. When one en-
ters the yard, one has the impression