New Britain herald., 1917-10-18
TURKS TURNING
 AGAINST GREEKS
Story of Frank Jackson Depicts
 Untold Atrocities in Turkey

New York, Oct. 17.-Not sated by the slaughter of hundreds of thou sands of Armenians and Syrians, the Turk has also turned against the Greek Christians in his dominions and more than 100000 have fallen a victim to persecution in the form Of death. suffering or deportation, it was declared here today by Frank w. Jackson, of this city. chairman of the Relief committee for Greeks of Asia Minor. He said the real details of these new Turkish atrocities were just beginning to leak out.
 "The story of the Greek deporta- tion is not yet generally known" said MT. Jackson, Quietly and gradually the samo treatment Is being mcted out to the Greeks as to the Armen- ians. Although closely guarded, oer- tam echoes of these horpors come out from time to time. V
 There were some e\two or three 1aillion Greeks in Asia Minor at the outbreak of the war in 1914, subject to Turkish rule. According to the latest reliable and authoritative ac- counts some seven to eight hundred thousand have been deported. main- ly from the coast regions into the in terior of Asia Minor.
 ''The Greeks of Asia Minor have always been law-abiding and perfect ly loyal to the Turkish government. Under Abdul Hamid they were well treated, but his successors adopted a program to crush them.
 At the declaration of the present war all prosecutions were stopped but the spring of 1915 brought to the stage tragic, novel drama unique in the history of the world as to it's horrors and destruotiveness, that is the Armenian deportation; under that innocent name the extermination of Christian race was started
 "Along with the Armenians most of the Greeks of the Marmora regions and Thrace have been deported on the pretext that they gave informa- lion to the enemy. Along the Aegean Coast Aivalik stands out as the worst sufferer. According to one report some 10000 Greeks there have been deported toward Koria and beyond. At least 1000 have been slaughtered. The Greek bishop of Aivalik commit ted suicide in despair.
 "The latest account from Trebizond shows the towns along the Black Sea arc being cmptied of their Greek pop ulation From Lyndon S. Crawford, missionary of the American Board at Trebizond We have letter dated July 24, 1917, in which he says the following order came from Turkish army headquarters at Sheishehie: By 1925 July let no Greek man over 16 and under 50 be found in Ordou 10 n for the families, we will send further orders later.'
 MT. Crawford also wrote: First let us express once more our thank fitness to God for the delivcrance He has sent us by the great, grand Rus sian army and people. We are more and more appreciating what the Rus Sians have done for this region. Im- mediately after the Russian occu- patton of this province in April, 1916 hundreds of Armenians began to come out of their hiding places.'
 From the Greek minister to the United States, Georges Rousses, l have a letter September 21, 1917, in which he says:
 Backed by the Germans the Turks have put into execution and even organized their wildness. They nave OeC1Q6O to oXIGrm1naCG the Greek element which is the most im- portant and most numerous in Asia Minor.
 Under pretext of necessities of war entire populations have been de- ported. Members of families have been separated. The old, the men un- fit for military service and the wom- en, were sent into the interior of the country, abandoned without the slightest help and exposed to all sorts of deprivations. The men fit for mill itary service were taken by force into the army despite the fact of having paid for exception; some of the wealthiest have even been called on to pay this exemption fee three times over.'"
 The Relief committee for Greeks of Asia Minor, MT. Jackson said, has been organized for non-pOlitical and purely humanitarian purposes and aims at securing means to aid these Greeks reduced by sudden persecu- tions to a state of want.