The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-14
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= .bIooded Murders Feature
Treatment Of Race,

r n0NBAY, Aug. 1.-The following
sSeaeUnnt given to the Associated fres,
British officer now IN a hospital
fess, presents a vivid picture OF the SUI
ferings undergone by the Armenians, OF
aNhich comparatively little first-hand IN
4 5>enetion tas hitherto been fortheom-
0s
Story Of Educated Armenian.
~befose got my wound In the fight
81 up bshind Basdsd. met on sew
SS1i occasion, 4 highly educated Ar
>saian who had escaped from the lurks
W vss being employed by US as an IN
3Dan6eter. The stories he told OF the
manities inflicted upon hi, com
ofriotis were so appalling that made
Does Of his conversations and have at
nrAcd here to reproduce them IN
Hetisins like his own language, SO
II you can get a, the heart OF the man
- realize what he and all educated
1yuenisns feel. The interpreter was IN
oostantinople up to end OF the year
0hen he was sent to the front with a
parsy Of Armenians. Several OF whom
0scsped"
Tke Interpreters story follows:
what YOU have read and heard about
Armenia is not a hundredth part OF the
6seh Dantes Inferno was heaven
4 4ouunpared with the he'll that the Turks
tnse made Of my country. Something
~ he awful reality Of the past twelve
7, jnonths ! have myself seen in passing
lheough on the way 10 the front
Sick Woman Buried Alive.
-At Aleppo there are four factories IN
hjch 1000 Armenian deported womer
- being employed under terrible con
0Itoos. One said to me On a hall
nfing our deportations l saw q gen
Hsme bury . sick woman alive. Cold
tlooded murders were an everyday oc'
nnereaee. Our guards had orders tc
IA on the spot anyone who Jagged be
HID. Ditch several were killed At once
nd the bodies were Just thrown into I
!. Hl1ch together and covered
Bats, Messgvene and Zor are places
sndHef to be forgotten by us Armenans
~ have visited them. Do you know wha
epened there a few months .sineei b.
- osdkr OF the governor, Aft, nearl,
80 hundred thousand Of my brothers
Is murdered, massaered by armec
4 rtsssians.
H ~ Bosanti I saw six railway truck'
NJ Armenian children being dispatched
b y 81 unknown destination
Germans Almost - BAD.
NJ The German soldiers seen aroun
4 11niions in Armenia are generally OF
NJ type and not far behind the Turk
y their disregard for the rights OF on
1 0oeple.
7~fheir cruelty is a little differer
from that OF the Turk but the diffe,
eace Is only one OF kind. The Turl
to9 example, often respects certai
lhinss which we have learned to as
SoeciAte with our religious or racial be
~; the German has no respect 10
vthing. nothing is too sacred TO
x profsne hands. The Turk frequent
1, med 10 show some respect and def
a net to upper class Armenians, tn,
4 peatsd people, regarding them a
1ghaps capable OF being useful evel
Y - Turkish dominion. The German
\ y soon as he arrived here pointed ou
- educated Armenian as the mos
nngerous OF all and instigated tn
~ into organising a ruthless perse
~ OF the intellectual classes On
~ surrounded the offices OF III
Native newspaper Asadamard, al
~ all the staff and deported then
mow not whittier Will they ev,
elmnl Who knows?
|6 ~One day | walked from pla,
El1ose thousands OF innocent wome
~ and children were bivouacke
)oring nameless miseries, ] walk,
~ beeause I could not bear al
1(o y gase upon them and I came
r Wkere saw . little child ! wi
3Uskish uniform. The child can
- ~ tand cried in Turkish: 'Gi'
ooo1d. For five day. | have eat,
lng bat this He pointed 10 SON
5n1Du shin that had been left lying Z
u road. I answered him in Armenia
end the poor boy jumped up into n,
arms, saying: Art thou Armenian
He remained there minute utterin
% other word. But | felt warm teal
falling down my cheek.
The waters Of the Euphrates. III
sands Of the deserts Of Mesopotami
ore the graves OF the whole Armenia
nation. can no longer weep. NJ
tears have frozen in my ewes"