Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-03
TURKISH ATROCITIES
DEPICTED By DR.. COAN


road. which would open up the mex
haustible resources Of undeveicpcd Asia
Minor, and to cut the Sucz Canal, he
showed to be the motive Of tho Kaiser
in inveiglinG Turkey into his power
under the false pretense Of friendship.
and the slaughter of 100000 Oriental
Christians under the guise OF q holy
war was the price he declared the
Kaiser agreed to pay. For this rail-
road concession. he said, the Kaiser
promised the Turkish Mohammedans
that no hand should ever again be
raised In protest of Armenian slauEh-
ter. and that this meant that $500, 900
Christian Armenians might be de-
stroyed by fire, sword or starvation for
the achievement of his satanic purpose.
He said that Germany had been in con-
troll OF Turkey for Atty years, officer
ing her armies and drilling her SOL
diers. and at the same time exploiting
her resources as no nation had been
before exploited under the guise of
friendship; that she had robbed her OF
her silver and paid her back In paper
money worth 10 cents on the dollar.
The plan of German colonization"
of the Armenians in Mesopotamia DR..
Coan described as the most gigantic
treachery OF history, the word colon
ization" being subterfuge and a syn
onym for death" They transported,
said the speaker, 100000 from tho
northern mountains to the nausea and
miasma of the Mesopotamian swamps,
where, by reason of the change. 10000
soon died. He told of the German trick
of loading $4,000 on transports, which
presumably were to make a water trip
to save the eXilcs a 1.300-mile tramp
over land, but which. in reality and
according to plan. carried them out on
the Black Sea. where they were heoled
overheard and drowned. He told of
another detachment OF $4,000. OF
whom 24,6o0 were butchercd. ravishcd.
drowned or starved.
ARMENIAN HIGHWAY LINED
WITH BONES OF DEAD WOMEN
There is a certain highway from
Armenia, of which he told. which is
lined with the white bones of dead
women and the rags of their clothing.
Naked. they were driven into exile
until they died from exhaustion. with
Mohammedans on the highway TO leer
at them. AT the foot of certain
precipce which he had seen is pile
of bones thirty-fve feet high, where
1000 women, he said. were driven or
thrown over by the Turks. who were
sick Of listening TO the screams OF the
sufferers
He told of trench which was dug
by 1000 Armenians who had deter
mined to defend their homes. but who
were lured into giving up their arms
under false promise OF protection. In
that trench they were slaughtered and
buried. He said that 1900 babies. left
we're dumped into pit and
saturated with kerosene and burned.
Another 1000 women and children. he
asserted, were shot one by one as they
came from n church in which they had
concealed themselves. Sixteen hundred
maidens We're described BY DR.. Coan
AS standing OH bridge over which
they were passing into captivity and
the horrors of violation with soldiers
behind them and in front Of them. AT
4 signal from one OF them they all
leaped into the water below and
drowned themselves to save their
honor. The victims OF such atrocities,
he said. totaled over 1000, coo Ar
menans.
Dr, Coan declared that the Armc-
mans we're of the finest type of stall
wart men and modest women, and
that $50 year would start one Of
them towards rehabilltaiing Armenia,
the Christian pivot OF Asia Minor
That means SO a month. 81 every ten
days, 10 cents a day, the price of
a package of cigarettes or two cigars