The Washington herald., 1918-10-28
NINTH INSTALLMENT,

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large part OF the Serbian population
and moved thousands OF Serbian chill
dren into her own territories. intend
ing 10 bring them up as loyal sub
jects Of the empire. To what degree
this movement of populations has
taken place we shall not know until
the end of the war. but il has certain
ly gone on extensively.
Upheld by Germans.
Certain German writer's have even
advocated the application of this pol
icy to the Armenians According to
the Paris Temps, Paul Rohrbach ''in
a conference held at Berlin, some
time ago. recommended that Armenia
should be evacuated by the Arme-
mans. They should be dispersed in
the direction of Mesopotamia and
their places should be taken by Turks
in such a fashion that Armenia
should be freed of all Russian inf'u-
ence and that Mesopotamia might be
provided with farmers which il now
lacked. The purpose of all this was
evident enough. Germany was build
ing the Bagdad railroad across the
Mesopotamian desert. This was an
essential detail in the achievement Of
the great new German empire, ex-
tending from Hamburg to the Per-
sian Gulf. But this railroad could
never succeed unless there should de-
Velop thrifty and industrious popu-
lation to feed it. The lazy Turk would
never become colonist. But the Ar
menlan was made OF just the kind of
stun which this enterprise needed 1t
was entirely in accordance with the
German conception of statesmanship
10 se1ze these peoples in the lands
"here they had lived for ages and
transport them violently TO this
that they had always lived in a tenn
perate climate would furnish no inn
pediment in pan-German ewes.
| found that Germany had been
sowing these ideas broadcast for sew
eral years: | even found that German
saVants had been Iecturing on this
subject in the Fast Il remember at
tending a lecture by a weII-known
German professor" an Armenian tells
me. HIS main point was that
throughout their history the Turks
had been too merciful toward the
non-Turkish population The only
way to insure the prosperity of the
empire, according to this speaker. was
to act without any sentimentaIity to-
ward all the subject nationaIities and
races in Turkey who did not fall I'm
with the plans OF the Turks
Quotes Pan-German.
The pan-Germanists are on record
IN the matter of Armenia. 1 shall
content myself with quoting the words
OF me author OF 'MitteI- Europa"
friedrch Naumann. perhaps the
aplest propa gator of pan-Ger,nan
ldeas. In his work on Asia" Maui
mann. who started life as a Chris
tian Clergyman. deals in considerahIe
detail with the Armenian massacres
OF 1866. I need only quote n few
passages to show the attitude of Cor
man state poiicy on such Infanies.
1T we should take into consideration.
merely the violent massacre of from
snUo to 10000 Armenians," writes
Naumann, we can come to but one
opinion-we must absolutely condemn
With all anger and vehemence both
the assassins and their instigators.
They nave perpetrated the most
aoomlnaole roassacres upon masses of
people, more numerous and worse
tnan those inflicted by Charlemsgne
on she Saxons. The tortures which
Lepsius has described surpass any
tning we have ever known. What,
then. prohibits us from falling upon
the Turk and saying to him: Get
thee gone. wretch! Only one thing
hrohibits us. for the Turk answers. 4
TOO, ] fight sor INV existaocer-,nj
indeed. we believe him. We believe.
despite the Indignation which the
oioody Mohammedan barbarism
arouses in US. that the Turks are de-
Tending themselves legitimateiy, and
before anything else we see in the
armenian question and Armenian
n,asSacres matter of internal Turk
'sh poiicy, merely an episode of the
'asony through which a great empire
Is passins' which does not propose TO
let itself die without making a last
attempt to save itself by bloodshed.