The Washington herald., 1918-10-29
TENTH INsTALLMENT.

The United States is apparently
the only country that takes much
interest in the Armenians," he said.
Your missionaries are their friends
and your people have constituted
themselves their guardians. The
whole question of helping them is
therefore an American matter. How
then, can you expect me to do any
thing as long as the United States
is selling ammunition to the enemies
of Germany? Mr.. Bryan has just
published his note, saying that 1t
would be unneutral not to sell NUM-
tions to England and France. AS
long as your government maintains
that attitude we can do nothing for
the Armenisns."
Sore on American Shells.
Probably no one except a German
logician would ever have detected
any relation between our sale Of war
materials to the allies and Turkeys
attacks upon hundreds of thousands
of Armenian women and children.
But that was about as much progress
as l made with Wangenheim at that
time. 1 spoke to him frequently. but
he invariably Offset my pleas for
mercy to the Armenians by references
~ AAAC use VI SIltllS dN lLt
Dardanelles. A GOODNESS sprang up
between us soon afterward. the re-
suit of my refusal to give him
credit for having stopped the de-
Sportation of French and German
civilians to the Gallipoli peninsula.
After our somewhat tart conversation
over the telephone. when he had
asked me to telegraph Washington
that he had not "hetzed' the
Turks in this matter. our visits to
each other ceased for several weeks.
There were certain influential Ger
mans in Constantinople who did not
accept Wangenheim's point of view.
l have already referred to Paul
Weitz, for thirty years the. correspon-
dent of the Frankfurter Zeitung, who
probably knew more about affairs in
the Near East than any other Ger
man. Although Wangenheim con-
stantly looked to Weitz for informa-
tion, he did not always take his ad-
vice. Weitz did not accept the
orthodox imperial attitude toward Ar
menia- for he believed that Germany's
refusal effectively to intervene was
doing his fatherland everlasting in
jury. Weitz was constantly present.
ing this view to Wangenheim, but
llE Illduc lllllt DTOSItSS. "tllZ lOlu
me about this himself, in January,
1916. a few weeks before left
Turkey. l quote his own words on
this subject:
Il remember that you told me at
the beginning" said Weitz. what a
mistake Germany was making In the
Armenian matters. agreed with
you perfectly. But when 1 urged this
view upon Wangenheim. he threw me
twice out of the room!"
Some Germans Opposed.
Another German who was opposed
TO the atrocities was Neurath. the
counselor of the German embassy.
His indignation reached such a point
that his language to Talaat and En-
Yer became almost undiplomatic. He
told me, however, that he had failed
to influenCeNthem.
They are immovable and are de-
termined to pursue their present
course" Neurath said.
OF course no Germans could make
much impression on the Turkish gov
ernment as long as the German am
bassador refused to interfere. And,
as time went on. il became more and
more evident that Wangenheim had
no desire to stop the deportations.
He apparently wished, however. 10
re-estabHsh friendly relations with
me, and soon sent third parties to
ask why I never came to see him.
do not know how long this estrange-
ment would have lasted had not a
great personal affliction befallen
him In June Lieut.. Col Leipzig. the
German military attache, died under
the most tragic and mysterious cir
cumstances, in the railroad station at
Lule Bourgas. He was killed by a
revolver shot; one story said that
the weapon had been accidentally
discharged. another that the colonel
had committed suicide, still another
that the Turks had assassinated him.
mistaking him for Liman Won San