The Washington herald., 1918-10-28

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and / did not stop.
l suppose there Is no phase OF the
Armenian question which has aroused
more interest than this. Had the
Germans any part in it? To what
extent was the Kaiser responsible for
the wholesale slaughter of this ma
ton? Did the Germans favor il. did
they merely acquiesce. or did they op-
pose the prosecutions? Germany, in
the last four years. has become re-
sponsible for many of the blackest
pages in history; is she responsible
for this. unGAestiOnably the blacklist
of all?
Talk Like Germans.
presume that most people will de-
tect in the remarks of these Turkish
Chieftains certain resemblances to the
German philosophy OF war. Let me
repeat certain phrases used by Enver
and other Turks while discussing the
Armenian massacres. The Arme-
mans have brought this fate upon
themselves" They had a fair warn
ing of what would happen to them"
I'VE were fighting for our national
existence" we were justified in re-
cOA NhlE " llltdilS lHdl "OIlu az
complish these ends" we have no
time to separate the innocent from
the guilty" The only thing We have
on our mind is to win the war"
These phrases somehow have a ia
miliar ring. do they not? Indeed.
might rewrite all these interviews
with Enver, use the word Belgium in
place of Armenia, put the words in a
German generals mouth instead of
Envers and we should have almost
a complete exposition of the German
attitude toward subject peoples But
the teachings of the Prussians go
deeper than this. There was one fea-
ture about the Armenian proceeding
that was new-that was not Turkish
at all
For centuries the Turks have i'll
treated their Armeuians and all their
other subject peoples with inConceiv-
able baroarity. Vet their methods al
ways have been crude. clumsy and
unscientihC. They excelIed in beating
out Armenian brains with cIub-and
TINS unpleasant illustration il A per-
feet indication Of the rough and prin-
itiFe methods which they applied to
the Armenian problem. They have
understood the uses OF murder, but
not or murder as a fine art. But the
Armenian proceedings Of 1915 and 1915
evidenced an entirely new mentality.
Thts new conception was that of de-
portation. The Turks. in 500 years.
had invented innumerable ways of
physically torturing their Christian
subjects. yet never before mad il oc-
CURED to their minds to move them
bodily from their homes, where thev
had lived for many thousands Of
years and send them hundreds of
miles away into the desert
Took Idea from Huns.
Where did the Turks get this idea?
l have already described how. in 1914
Just before the European war. tie
government moved about 10000
dreeks from their agelong homes
along The hsiatic littoral 20 certain
Islands in the Aegean. / have also
said mat Admiral rsedom, one of the
pig herman naval experts in Turkey.
'old me that the Germans had sug-
gested this deportation to The Turks
oGs the all important point is that
tais ioea of deportng peoples en-
r'aHse is, in modern times. exclusively
Any one who reads the lit
eralnro OF pan-Germany constantly
meets 1t. These enthusiasts for a Ger
man world have deliberately planned.
as part OF their program, the ousting
OF the French from certain PARTS of
france. OF Beigians from Belgium, of
Po,es from Poland. of SIavs from
RUSSIA, and other indigenous peoples
from the territories which they have
inhabited for thousands of years. and
me esta oiishment in the vacated lands
OF solid. honest Germans.
But II is hardly necessary 20 SHOW
that the Germans have advocated
this as state policy; they have ac-
tually been doing II in the last four
years They have moved we do not
Know now many thousands of Bel
gins from France and their native
Land Austria Hungary has killed Q