The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-27
Turks Made Targets
 of Allied Hostages
German Ambassador Connived at Crime - Ambassador Morgenthau Saved Hundreds-His Interview With Enver and Wangenheim.

The Turks sent fifty French and British civilian residents of Constan- tinople to the firing line at Gallipoli as a "reprtsar' for alleged Allied smelling of unfortIfed villages. They planned to send three thousand but the American Ambassador, Henry Morgenthau. finally persuaded the Turkish Minister of War to send only fifty. after the German Ambassador had declined to intercede with his Moslem allies. MT. Morgenthau's s own story of the event, told in the | Worlds Work, just published, is as follows:
 On the second of May, 1915, Enver sent his aide to the American Elm bassy, bringing a message which he | requested me to transmit to the French and British governments. In it he told me he had decided to collect all the British and French citi- zens who were then living in Con- stantinople, take them down to the Gallipoli peninsula and scatter them | in Moslem villages and towns.
 was. advised by one of my German friends to seek Wangenheim's assist ance. I must admit that did this as a forlorn hope, but at least thought 1t only fair to Wangenhein to give him g. chance to help.
 called upon him in the evening at 10 o'clock and stayed with hin until Il. I spent the larger part o1 this hour in fruitless attempt to in terest him in the plight of these non combatants. Wangenheim saiC point blank that he would no assist me.
 My talk with Wangenheim produc- ed no results, so far as enlisting hi support was concerned, but it stiff ened my determination to defeat thi enterprise. Meanwhile, Bedri, tn Prefect of Police was busy arrestin! all the doomed EnglNh and French The deportation was arranged to talk , place Thursday morning. On Wed nesday the excitement reached tn hysterical stage. It seemed as the whole population of Constantine pie had gathered at the America Embassy.
 | Whenever I left my office and pass 2 ed into the hall I was almost mobbe | by scores of terror-stricken and dis
 hevelled mothers and wives. Tn
 nervous tension was frightful; I seiz
 ed the telephone, called up Envel
 and demanded an interview.
 He replied that he would be happ
 to receive me on Thursday. By thi
 time, however, the prisoners woul
 already have been on their way t
 Gallipoli.
 "No," I replied, "I must see yo
 this afternoon"
 After a long discussion he finall agreed to see me at the Sublime Port T at 3:30.
 = The meeting which followed be
 tween Enver and myself was th
 most momentcus I had had up to ths o time. We discussed the fate of tn Q foreigners for nearly an hour.
 found Enver in one of his most polit f but most unyielding moods. He tol if me before I began that it was use
 less to tall-that the matter was i closed issue.
 Il I asked him if I had ever give l. him any advice that had led him int - trouble. He graciously replied ths
 they had never yet made a nistak IS by following my suggestions. @ "Very yell, take my advice in tn l, case too," replied. You will fin l. later that you have made no mistaE ). by doing so."
 a But I have given orders. cal
 not countermand them. But if yc