The Washington times., 1918-09-29

The soldiers declared they had orders to take me bv
force Miss MeLane showed them the American flag and
warned them. She asked that they take her to the
Mutassar that she might ask his protection for me- To
this the soldiers at last agreed and was left alone in
the house.
When Miss MeLaine returned she was crying The
soldiers came with her. The Mutassar had said must
rejOin the exles but that might be taken to house
where large company Of women who had embraced
Mohammedanism were confined with their children This
company, the Mutassarn said, was to be taken away
safey and protected until they reached place selected
by the government
So Miss McLaine could do nothing more for me. She
kissed me- and the soldiers led away to the house
where the apostaszed women with their children were
being kept Two years after when escaped out of the
desert told by American doctor that Miss Nc.
Lame had been stricken with illness while caring for
Armenians at Malatia and had died
The apostaszed Armenians to whom the soldiers, took
were nearly all women from small cities between
Malata and Svas In almost every c6se they had pur.
chased the privilege Of becoming Mohammedans from AXIS
Beys officers. know Of them really had given up
Christianity but they thought they doing right Is
nearly all the women the mothers of small children
who with them. They wanted to save the lives Of
their little They did not know what to become
of them. but the beys had promised they would be taken
care of by the government IN the monastery
This party Of refugees was fed by the Turks-bread
water and coarse cakes We were not allowed out Of the
house. but the Turks did not bother u.s. soon had occa.
least protection when he had join this party
In some Of the companies the men had not been killed
and still were with their women. At Of the fourth
day the soldiers gathered all OF these into big party
The Vail wanted them to register the soldiers said
aotments Of land could be made to Them at their destna
ton in the south So earnest the soldiers the
believed them Many joined the line of their brothers
without putting their coats if they still had them
They marched to the very building In which had
first been quartered and from which the other refugees
had been turned out the night before.
Airnhek ohod. into HE bnsl1
Outside soldiers took up their station at the doors and
windows. Other soldiers then robbed the Of their
money and vauabes-such they had saved from Kurds
along the road Then the soldiers killed them at first
with knives until the bodies had piled up so high the
soldiers could not reach survivors without stumbling in
blood then they used their rifles and killed the rest with
volleys of bullets.
That afternoon soldiers visited all the camps of ref.
gees and the houses In which they quartered and
took all children than five years old think there
must have been eight nine thousand Of these The
soldiers to the house in which with the
turned Armenians and despite the promises of the
Vail took all our boys and girls When mothers held
onto their little ones and begged for them the soldiers
would beat them off with rife butts. eff they die
your God won't be troubled by having to look after them
till they grow up, the soldiers said-and always with
brutal laugh,
They took the children to the edge Of the city where
a band of Aghja Dagi Kurds were waiting. Here the
soldiers gave the children into the keeping Of the Kds
who drove them off toward the Tokma-Su River just out
side the city The Kurds drove the little like flock
of sheep When little boy or little girl fell and couldn't
walk any further cried for mother and father until
they were too weak to march, the Kurds would ride
them with their horses and mash them to death At the
river banks they drove all the little boys into the river
The larger girls those from to 10 II years. they took
aside and then the of the girls thrown into the
river The larger taken into the hills to be sold
farmers or raised by the Kurd themselves to be sold
slaves later
That night all the refugees in Malatia told they
would be put on the road for Dyarbekr tomorrow All
hight long the soldiers wild among them all restraint
being thrown aside The soldiers had orders they said
to kill all the aged women and the sick ones Some
soldiers into the house where my company and
picked out Twenty-Five women who very old and
who had been helped along the road by their daughters
younger relatives They killed these where they found
HEM and left their bodies for carry of the house
Three soldiers had massacred many women their
clothes were dripping with blood and they were proud
Of this They dipped their hands in the blood of the
they killed and playfully slapped each other in
face laughing gayly at the red marks their fingers left
In the morning all the refugees were ordered to take
he road. My company the "turned" Armenians were
,ut at head of the column We were to be protected
he soldiers said by the Wallis command and to
AVE a special guard Of soldiers with No soldiers
sent with the rest Of the eompaniesKurs waited
the outskirts of the city to take the place of the usual
older escort