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"They Took Emin, Too
He Is uith Our Father!"

could not be brave then screamed with
81! my might. Mother heard and came running
upstairs, with lausanne and the others following.
But father saved Emin. He gathered him in his
arms and swept him aside and into the crowd of
men just as the soldiers bayonet came down.
When mother reached me I had my hands over
my eyes. was the only one who had seem
would have to tell her that now little Enin. who
had wanted to grow up and be priest like
rather Rupen, was gone, too Mother thought
something had happened to father in the square
and that had seen it,
Tell me quick-what is t7-Have they killed
hlmY' she cried. / couldn't answer-except TO
shake my head. Suddenly mother missed Emin
for the first time. Something must have told
her. She asked lausanne: "Wherc is nv bov ?
Where is Eminf Why isn't he heref"
lausanne started to run downstairs to look In
the yard. Then knew my first time to be brave
had come. ! looked at her and motioned her
not to go. put my arms around mother and
said, between my sobs:
They took Emin too-he IS with our fatherl'
Mother sank upon the floor and buried her face
lausanne and knelt beside her But she didn't
cry Her eyes were dry when she gathered us
TO her never saw my mother cry after that,
even when the Turkish soldiers at the orders Of
Ahmed Bey. Of whom ] shall tell later. were
beating her to death while they made me look on
before taking me to Ahmeds Bey's harem.
Out Of the window we could see the men Of tho
cltY--comfortng each other Or talking excitedlY
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The Death of Andranik
by the Knives of the Yezidees

nelghbor woman ran in to tell u.s. .Andranik
threw off his women's clothes, took an old saber
father had hung on our wall, and rushed out Of
the house. He cut his way through the yczidccs
and got into his home, where he found his
mother and sister and his other relatives in a
panic OF fear. The hakm shouted to him to
come out at once: Andranik saw them bringing
up cans of oil. He kissed his mother and sister
again and stepped out into the street They
killed him with knives on the door step. His
sister ran out and threw herself on his body, and
they killed her, too. When a neighbor told us
what had happened lausanne ran out to Andra-
mix 8 house and helped his mother carry in the
two bodies.
Father and the other men were taken away
that night. In our house we were sitting in my
room trying to pick out the shadows in the
square made by the torches and lanterns carried
by the yezidees. Just after midnight many new
soldiers appeared, as we could tell by the lights,
and suddenly there was great shouting Soon
we saw the shadows of the men, formed into a
long line, march out Of the square, with yezdees
and soldiers all about them. It was too dark
for us to pick out father and Emin, but we knew
they would be looking up at our window.
They took the men toward the Kara River,
which is a branch Of the Euphrates. Many were
so old and feeble they could not walk far, and
fell to the ground before they got to the river,
twelve miles distant. The yezfdees killed these
with their knives and left their bodies. 1t was
daylight when they came to the little village of
Gwazim, which is on the river bank. There was
a large building at Gwazm which the Turks
sometimes used barracks when there was
war with the Kurds, and at other times as a
prison. Half the men were put into this build
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and sisters she would join his slaves willingly md
afectionately
It terrible choice girl to make-the cera,
slaughter of all that dear the subsection Other
pure self to this Turkish brute Little Aurora didno
hesitate but her poor mother caspng the child in her ans
refused to let her make the sacrifice She the cep
at her churchand the holy that eve az
Christ had willingly given up his life the Roman perscu
TORS she and all who loved the Saviour read
make the sacrifice and thus inherit life everlasting
All this Miss Mardganian related in her opening chate,
last week. She begins to-day the story of years an
behring's and by permission Of the Committeefo,
Armenian and Syrian Relief through which the American pep
have than million dollars for needy people
the Near East and whose workers have braved ra
nce to help the suffering peoples of the Ottoman Empire
diary of her terrible experiences will printed from sua,
to Sunday this page.
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CONTINUED from Last Sunday

ss\YIHAATEvEKS Il happens, my daughter, be
w brave. If do not return, remem-
Der died for God Comfort your
mother and your sisters and brothers-and be
faithful to Him
Those were the last words Of my father as he
went out of the house that Thursday noon, to
obey the Sultans order that all the Christian
Armenian men over eighteen years old in our
city gather in the public square, to be sent away,
as told last Sunday. Father had never spoken
to me that way before 1t seemed as if, when he
realized, as he must have done, that he was going
to dreadful fate, he knew l would soon become
a woman-and no longer be just his favorite
little girl.
Comfort your mother!' Those words al.
most burned me. | knew, no matter what our
+ Y1sSt and hopes had been, that the lawful day"
had cure. Ever since was very little could
remember father and mother sometimes talking
with visitors in our house of the massacres in
Armenia in 1894, ordered by Abdul Hamid Both
father and neither had lost their parents then and
fathers sister had been taken to harem AL.
ways after that Armenians talked of another
time they were afraid would come an awful
day, when 1894 would be repeated
was only fourteen, but father had said. ''Re
brave-Comfort your mother" That could only
mean the lawful day had come
ran upstairs to my window on the second
floor of our home to watch father crossing the
street to the public square. When he left, mother
fell onto divan in the front room downstairs.
lausanne, my older sister. and my little brothers
and sisters stayed with her, even the little ones
trylng 10 make believe that, perhaps, father
would come back
From my window saw little Emin nv fifteen.
year-old.brother, run out to follow father as far
as he could. and saw the Turkish soldier stop
him when he tried to turn back, as have told
before ] saw father protest that Enin was
cJrht
gun high in the air and turn his bayonet to bring.
II down into little Emin s body.
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were waiting us at the edge of the square For a
time he could not speak Then he told us:
The men are to be taken into the desert''
He said the officers had told them they would
be taken only to Arabkiro, which is in the middle
OF the desert, sixty miles away, and that they
would be allowed to camp there until the Turks
were ready for them to come home again. Father
said he hoped this were true-that they would
be allowed to return. Little did he know then
what was to happen to them the very next night
Father had bribed soldier to let us talk with
him. He told mother that since little Emn was
along he would like to have her bring him blan-
ket to wrap up in at night, and some more money
He had with him hundred Ira, or $3.50 in Amer
lean money, but perhaps if he had more, he said,
ne could bride the soldiers to let Emin ride on a
horse, or, perhaps, escape when they began their
march.
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Z--- Dawn Of the Day of Terror
By Aurora Mardiganian

with the leaders in the square. By the middle of
the afternoon more than 5000 men and older
boys had assembled. The soldiers and yezidees
rode through the streets, searching houses that
no man over eighteen might escape When the
women chung to their husbands and fathers the
soldiers said the men were summoned only to be
addressed by Vussier Pacha, the Vail or High
Governor of the district, who was coming ND from
his capital Harpout Some of the women be-
lieved this explanation. Others knew it was not
the true reason
Not very far from house was the home of
Andranlk Vartabcd young man who had grad
uated from the American School at Marsovan, in
Upper Armenia and who had come to our city,
with his family, to teach in our Christian College
lie was very popular in the city, and lausanne was
engaged to marry him. When the Turks con-
scripted most of the strong young Armenian men
they spared Andranik because of his position as
teacher
When his father answered the summons to the
square that noon Andranik remained behind
lie disguised himself in dress belonging to his
sister and made his way to the edge of the city
where he bought horse from Turk whom he
knew he could trust By the Turk, Andranik
sent word to lausanne that he would try and ride
to Harpout, where he knew the German Consul
General, Count Wolf Won Wolfskehl and beg Of
this powerful German official to ntercede for the
Armenians of Tchemesh- Gedzak. He said he
hoped to get through in his disguise as the Turks
did not seem to be yet ready to bother the girls
and women, and would let him pass
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N7wo@ars Of Torture in Rayishee


these pages began last Sunday the history of Aurora
Nardganian the only Christian Armenian girl escape
- from the Turks since begun and the only
alive of the thousand Christians who Easter
Sunday years ago. attended the Resurrection
in the city of Tchemesh Gedza in the Hapout district of
Armenia.
Turkey that time had Joined in the ally
Germany The restraining hand of England busy
Turks saw chance extermnate their hated
Christian subjects.
Scarcely services the churches over when the
Turkish soldiers began gather together the Armenian
and older boys Little Auroras father elder
their death in the Turkish prison.
Aurora, although only fourteen a wel-deveoped
very pretty girl The Turkish governor had already marked
her face and figure desirable for his harem He visited
childs home that Easter Sunday limited
and promised spare and protect her mother
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ing and told they would haveto
next day. The yezidccs then tok
across the river and marched item
kiro, in the desert.
At noon of that day the yezdct
Gwazim. They had killed all he
taken across the river just as son
out of sight of the village. Drip
heard in -Gcdzak thatpa,
had been left in the prison, md
women walked the dusty road Il G.
to catch glimpse of husbnd,
lausanne and went. q
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When Her Father SlelD Hel
Brother to SaUe Him fr,ml

In Gwazim there was an ag
woman who had lived in our city 1
the massacre in 1894 She waspr
when the kurds stole her she ,av I
turning Mohammcdan. Then he /
Turkish hey at Gwazim. He Ike;
harem until she got old All TIN til
Tossing Islam, she secretly prycS
was Christian. The hey had gIenE
Fatimeh."
Fatimch asked the guards attht
her take water to the men, md
enter. When she told the prismcl
had returned without the otter
knew what had happened, arb s.
thing would happen to Them. F
with them long time and then c h
told me my father and Emin were !
sent word to us to be hopeful. III
we saw her going into the HissJ
time with two big rocks, 80 he's
hardly carry them, hidden in her !,
She came out again and filled he.
coal OIL a
When it was dark the younger 4
strong and brave, killed all tae !.
hitting their heads with the ro,kf
taken them. Father killed Emins
he was so little. When all thu &
men were dead, the young men pr
would think they had done ri)ht
the old men suffer a slow death O,
then they spread the oil and thr(
in the flames. Fatimeh told US
pcned while the prison burned.
suspected her and carried her int
building and left her.
1t was almost dawn Saturday /.
Lhsanne and / returned to moth
wills, 50 be it, was all she said
her what had happened at the pri
there had been a great celebratj
Hasan mosque, in honor of the
Sunday, while we were at Gwazi
imam, or prayer reader, had com
from Trebizond to read special pii
for such great events as the begin
war or massacre Of Christians. Il
That morning soldiers went thro-
posting a new paper on the wallis.
we had feared-an order from
that all Armenian Christian won,
young and old, must be ready In
leave their homes and be depurte
order did not say.
AS soon as the Turkish resident
new order many Of them begssa {,
Armenian half Of tho town offa,rin
the Armenian women wanted Ito 4
were none Of the men left. tho Vvop
to advise them. To our houH,.
Of the best in the city, there cd
Turks, who told US we had hoatte1
rugs and the beautiful lacaA1 INK
and ] had made.
Every Armenian girl q Taught
laces. No girl Is happy until lshe
herself lace bridal veil AWAY,
eager to buy these, as thsy ssil "a
TO foreign tradark Init nj. Ax1ne,
"a
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-20
Purser of Dutch
Liner Arrested for
Trading With Enemy
~ Associated Press.,

An Atlantic Port, Feb. 90
Johannes Hendrix Werkhoven, as
sistant purser on the Holland Am
erican liner Niewe Amsterdam was
arrested here yesterday under the
trading with the enemy act, and is
said to have confessed that he had
brought TO this country for redemp-
ton bonds and coupons owned in
Europe. He was held in $4,000 bail
for further examination.
Army vigilance officers have been
puzzled by the manner in which Sc
curities known to belong to Germans
residing abroad, have been brought
to the United States and converted
into cash. The arrest of WerShoven,
who was trapped while negotiating
the sale Of a $500 United Fruit COM
pany bond, is believed to clear up the
mystery.
Werkhoven is said to have admit
ted that since the outbreak Of the
war he has been making large profits
by bringing to this country and
cashtng bonds and coupons which he
said were owned by friends in Hol-
land. He denied having had any
dealings with Germans and said the
bond he tried to sell yesterday was
obtained from Cornelius Nederhoov-
en-, a Hollander at Rotterdam.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-20
Lloyd George Government
Has SurUiUed Another Crisis

ertson and expressed the regret OF
the government that it had been
unable to induce him to take a posi-
ton in which his abilities would be
most useful.
Lloyd George said that the new
executive body at Versailles must
have known not only about their
own armies and their own fronts
but also about all conditions on all
fronts and in all armies and in all
nations. Versailles had become the
repository Of information of all
fronts, all armies, all nationalities
all STATS and all foreign offices and
that information was being co-ordin-
ated by very able stats. 1t con-
stituted information which no single
war office possessed.
The premier declared he was anX-
ious that the Versailles arrange
ments be worked on wholeheartedly
by the military authorities here and
in France. He had had a talk with
Field Marshal Haig who said he was
prepared to work under them.
A majority of the morning papers
accept the statement made in the
house of commons yesterday by
Premier Lloyd George as a satisfac-
tory explanation and entirely ap-
prove of the Versailles agreement
and consider the whole incident
Strengthened out. Hostile newspa-
pers continue to be unconvinced and
reiterate their sharp criticisms but
seem resolved to accept the situa-
ton. They express the opinion that
no government crisis is likely To
arise at present although they be-
lieve the government has been weak
ened by recent events.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-20
fRv Associated Press.n

London, Tuesday, Feb. 19.-Pre-
mier Lloyd George and his govern
ment have surmounted another
crisis and the parliamentary wat
ers at Westminster appear to run
smoothly once more after weeks
turmoil stirred up by the retirement
Of General Robertson, chief Of the
imperial general STAFF.
In the house Of commons today the
premier explained and defended the
recent reorganization of the YER
sailles council with the added pow
ers given to it and his dealings with
the famous British chief of staff.
There was no proposal for a vote of
want of confidence, but H. H.
Asquith, the former premier, ex-
had not been given a week ago.
Lloyd Georges speech was de-
tailed but guarded recital Of the
proposals by which the four powers
at Versailles had arrived at the prin-
ciples of their latest form of coop
Grafton. There were no oratorical
passages except a few sentences at
the close, when Premier Lloyd
George appealed to the country to
get together in the face of a COM
mon danger.
The plan finally agreed upon by the
council, he said, was due largely to
the strong logical representations
which the American delegates had
submitted in the form Of a memoran-
dunn, and the premier several times
reverted to the influence which
American policy had exercised upon
the results Of the conference. He
paid warm tribute to General Rob-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-20
tBy Associated Press.)

London. Feb. 2O.-Germahy's new
war against Russia apparently is not
popular with the German or Austrian
people, according to comment in the
press Of the two countries.
When the Brest-Litovsk negotia-
tions closed all talk in Germany was
OF peace. The school children were
given holiday and bells were rung.
The public apparently did not dis
criminate between peace with the
Ukraine and with Great Russia, but
acclaimed it as a general peace with
Russia.
George Bernhard in The Vossische
Zeitung, emphasizes this point and
wants an explanation of who was
responsible for this disappointment.
The Socialist Vorwaerts says:
1.-THE more we NEEDLE in Russian
affairs the more we get away from
peace. What must be done is to
stick to the defense of our own soil
and to make peace wherever pos
sible without annexation or forcible
"A large section Of opinion in Aus
tria- Hungary also is alarmed over
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-20
French Marquis"
May Be Deported
to Save Expense
(Bv Associated Press. J


New York, Feb. 20.-ROusselot Di
Castillo, under indictment here. for
violating the espionage act and OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses,
may be deported to France as an I'M
desirable, federal authorities indi-
Gated yesterday after announcing
that they had found card among his
effects which showed he had been
certified for service in the French
army in 1914. BY ignoring his coun-
trys call to arms, it was declared
Castillo automatically became a de-
serter.
Castillo, formerly a SIS a week
clerk, represented himself along
Broadway as Marquis" De Castillo,
a representative Of the French gov
eminent and confidant- of King Al
fonso Of Spain. He borrowed $500
from w. e. d. Stokes, proprietor Of
the hotel where he had established
himself in n palatial suite. saying he
needed it to entertain a Mr.. Jusser-
and. Through J. P. Morgan and COM
pany, Castillo was opening negotia-
tions for loan of 100000 ito the
king of Spain, when he was ar
rested.
The expense incidental to prose-
cutting Castillo will be avoided by
deporting the prisoner, federal agents
said today.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-20
German OfensiUe Against
Russia Is Unpopular With
People of Central Empires

the prospect OF a renewal of war
with Russia.
Dispatches from Amsterdam and
Zurich quote AustrO- Hungarian
newspapers to this effect and a
Vienna dispatch to The Vossische
Zeitung reports a rising Of feeling
against Germany on account of her
action against Russia.
The Neue F'reie PTesse and The
Reichspot argue that as Austria
Hungary no longer has any enemies
on her eastern frontiers, she is not
called to interfere in Russian inter-
nal affairs. The Arbeiter zeitung,
Vienna's leading Socialist newspaper
insists emphatically that Austria
Hungary must not take part in a
new offensive.
Austria Hungary" it adds, can
not hinder the plans of the German
imperialists, but it cannot and dare
not join Germany in a new war on
Russia. This appears also to be the
view of the emperor and the govern
ment, but the people demand from
Count Czernin (the foreign secre-
tary) absolute assurance that Aus
tria- Hungary regards her war with
Russia as ended"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-20
SOUTH DAKOTA
WILL GET COAL
North Dakota Gives Ten
Per Cent of Its Anthra-
cite at Lake Docks
CRv Associated Press.l

Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 20.-In re-
Spouse to a request of w. G. Bickel-
haupt, federal fuel administrator for
South Dakota, and to alleviate cOndt-
tions in South Dakota, resulting from
the exhaustion of the propOrtionate
share Of that state Of the anthracite
tonnage at the docks of Great Lakes
ports, Federal Fuel Administrator
Isaac Baker of North Dakota, tele-
gTaphed Mr.. Bickelhaupt and the
United States fuel administration at
Washington Tuesday that it is agree
able to the North Dakota fuel admin
istration to allot to South Dakota ten
per cent of the available tonnage Of
anthracite standing to the credit Of
North Dakota at the docks, and that
more might possibly be allotted to
South Dakota later, If needed.
This action was deemed proper, in
view of the very great need in South
Dakota, and the availability of lig-
mite in North Dakota to take the
place Of anthracite allotted to South
Dakota in the event of the exhaus-
ton of North Da,kota's proportionate
share of anthracite at the docks OF
Great Lakes ports.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-20
SENATOR JOHNSON
FAVORS OWNERSHIP
Californian Would Proceed With
Next Step After Government
Control,
CBy Associated Press.)

Washington, Feb. 2O.-Permanent
government ownership Of railroads
rather than government control for
the period Of the war was advocated
by Senator Johnson, of California,
today in a speech opposing the SEN
ate draft Of the administration
railroad bill.
II would now take the inevitable
next step in government control of
our railroads." Senator Johnson de-
clared, and do whatever might be
essential to make that government
control permanent government own
ership, or at least, leave the way
open so that Immediately upon the
termination Of the war, we might
follow to its logical conclusion what
already I'VE have partly done"
The California senator protested
vigorously at the proposed rate of
compensation to be paid the rail-
roads under the provisions Of the bill
and also opposed the senate's plan
to turn the roads back to private
management eighteen months after
the conclusion of peace.