Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-03
ARMENIA, A NATION,
IS LIKE POLAND
Partly Under Russia, Partly I'M
der Persian And Partly Under
The Terrible Turk
AMERICA TO THE RESCUE

The history OF Armenia Is most pa
thetic. Armenia needs help and 10
his end there win be drive for funds
from January I2 to January 10.
The local committee appointed by
authorities at Washington consists Of
the following: Mrs s. S. Hepburn,
chairman: Mrs. Robert b. DashieI,
vice chairman; Miss Katherine Wal
con. Miss Mary r. Magruder. treasurer
and Prof. Angelo Hall, pubIici'y agent.
In an interview with Professor Hall,
relative to Armenia and the Turk, he
spoke as follows:
"At the Harvard Divinity school rs
years ago, one of my fellow students
bore the name OF Ohannes Chatschu-
mian He was not to blame for his
name. He was a gen lie, loyable fell
low, rather too meek for this world.
/ In fact. before our class had gradu-
ated he had died at Leipsic, Germany,
whittier he had gone To continue his
preparation for the priesthood of the
Armenian Church. 1t was from him
/ i
Church and its long history.
For many years the Armenian ma
ton has been rent asunder, like Po-
land; one part under the government
of Russia, another under Persia, and
another under the heel of the un-
speakable Turk But since ST. Bar
holomew founded It, the Armenian
Church has united its people with
spiritual bonds which defy the tyranny
of alien rulers and the massacres prac-
ticed by those incarnate fiends who
are at this very hour trying to ingra
late themselves with our victorious
Allies.
Strangely enough, my Armenian
friend felt more bitterly the oppression
of the Car han that of the Sultan
Twenty-Five years ago, Russia was en-
deavoring to abolish the language and
institutions of Armenia. whereas Tur-
key, like an indolent hyena, allowed
the lambs of the Armenian flock to
enjoy false security. The Sassoun
massacres of 1894 revealed the true
charac er of the Turk. The civilized
world awoke in establishment. 1t was
incredulous. Could Abdul the Damn
ed, the sick man of Europe, deliber-
ately destroy one hundred thousand of
his most Industrious subjects?
THE Sassoun massacres occurred
in August, and it was November be-
fore an Indignation NEE ing was held
in Fanueil Hall. Bos on. That meet
ing was attended by Governor Green
halge, of Massachusetts, dozen Chris
tian ministers, handful of Ameri-
cans, and some four hundred wretch
ed Armenians. Murder will out. Mis-
sionaries in Armenia had sent to heir
friends in America such statements
as these:
Sixty young women and girls were
selected from one village and placed
in church, when the soldiers were
ordered to do with them as they liked,
after which they were butchered
"'People were crowded into houses
which were then set on fire. In one in
stance a little boy ran out of the
flames, but was caught on a bayonet
and thrown back.
children were frequently held up
by he hair and cut in two, or had their
jaws torn apart. Women with child
were ripped open; older children
were pulled apart by their legs
In one place three or four hum
dred women. after being forced tor
serve the vile purposes of a merciless
soldiery, were taken to valley near
by and hacked to pieces with sword |
and bayonet.'
And so for h, ad nauseam The gen.
uineness of these statements was at
tested by such persons as Governor
Greenhalge, Frances E. Willard, Ed
ward Everett Hale. Francis E. Clark,
Cyrus Hamlin, Julia Ward Howe; and |
the reader is referred to Frederick
Davis Green's book, The Armenian |
Crisis in Turkey pages 1926, where
my quotations will be found.
"The meeting of pro est over. we
filed out into the streets of Boston; /
whereupon an Armenian asked me |
sadly, You think they do some
thing?"
Il forget what | answered, but |
know how the European powers an
swered-the powers who by the treaty |
of Berlin had guaranteed protection |
to the Christian subjects of Turkey.
They answered by allowing Turkey to
continue the massacre of Armenians
for Two years 1t was not until 1896
that the orgy of blood was over"