The Washington herald., 1918-10-23

getting the money At another paAGn3 n
where there were weiis. some wonn1
threw themselves into them. a. t,o4U]
was no rope or rail TO draw up ~0mk
water These women were drovnHGs j
and. In spite OF that, the rest OF ~
people drank from that well the 80
bodies stiil remaining thers and -.
luting the water. Sometimes. W110.
the wells were shallow and -
women could so down into them aal
come out again. the other pecp1o
would rush TO lick or suck their SsAs
J dirty clothes, In the effort 10 ouenon
their thirst. When they passed An
Arab village in their naked conditsca
/ the Arabs pittied them and save
them Old pieces OF cloth to cover
themselves with Some Of the exiies
who still had money bought some
clothes; but some still Remained who
trabeled thus naked all the way 20
the city of Aleppo. The poor women
could hardly walk for shame; they all
walked bent double"
! On the seventieth day a Few csea-
lures reached Aleppp. Out Of the
combined convoy Of Is.oco souls just
10 women and children reached their
destination. A few Of the rest. the
most attractive were stiiI living a.
captives OF the Kunds and Turks, all
the rest were dead.
Many Atrocities Unprtstsbpe.
My only reason for relating each
dreadful things ss this is that. with
out the details. the English -speakirs
public, cannot Understsnd precisely
what this nation is which we call
/ Turkey have by no means told the
most terrible details, FOR q complete
/ narration OF the sadistic orgies oS
which these Armenian men ana wor--
I en- were the victims can never be
= printed In an American publication.
Whatever crimes the most perverted
instincts OF the human mind can de-
wise, and whatever rehnements OF per-
secution and injustice the most de-
based imagination can conceive. be-
came the daily misfortuhes OF this de-
voted people. am confident that the
whole history OF the human race con-
tains no such horrible episode as this.
The great n1assacres and prosecutions
! OF the past seem almost insignincsnt
when compared with the surerfngs OF
the Armenian race in 1915. The slauch-
: ter OF the AlbiFenses IN the early
part OF the thirteenth century has al
\ ways been regarded as one OF the
most pitiful events IN history. IN
these outbursts Of fsnsticism about
5O.ooo people were killed In the nss-
sscre Of St Bartholomew about soeoe
human beings lost their lives Tho
Sicilian Vespers. which has always
! figured as one Of the most fiendish
/ outbUrsts OF this kind. caused the
destruction OF 500. Volumes have
been written about the Spanish In
QUESTION under Toruuemada. yet in
I the eighteen years OF his sdministrs-
: tion only a little more than SEQ
' heretics were done to death Per-
! haps the one event in history that
most resembles the Armenian dopor-
tsuons was the expulsion OF the Jews
! from Spain by Ferdinand and Iss-
T bella. According to Prescott $50 ooe
were uprOoted from their homes and
scattered broadcast over Africa and
Europe. Yet all these previous per-
lsecutions seem almost trivial when we
compare them with the sufferings of
= the Armenians, in which at least
6po.O0O people were destroyed and per
haps as many as 10000. And these
earlier massacres. when we compare
them with the spirit that directed the
Armenian atrocities. have one fea-l
/ ture that we can almost describe as
an excuse: they were the product Of
religious fanaticism and most Of the
men and women who tnstiFated them
sincerely believed that they were de-
voutly serving their Maker. Undoubt-
edly religious fanaticism was an I'm
pellinr motive with the Turkish and
kurdish rabble who slew Arrnenisns
as a service TO Allah. but the men
who really conceived the crime had
no such motive. Practically an OF
them were atheists. with no more re-
spect for Mohammedanism than for
Christianity. and with them the one
motive was cold-blooded. calculating
state policy.
Greeks and syrtsns safer.
The ArTnenians are not the only sub
ject people In Turkey which have suf-
fered from this policy OF making Tur-
key exclusively the country Of the
Turks. The story which have told
about the Armenians I could also tell
with certain notifications about the
'Greeks and the Syrians Indeed the
Greeks were the first victims OF thik
nationalizinE idea have already
described how. in the few months
preceding the European war. the Otto
man government began deportins its
Greek subjects along the coast Of
Asia Minor These outrages aroused
little interest in Europe or the United
states, Vet IN Lhe space OF three or
four months about 10000 Greeks
were taken from their aEe-long
homes in the Mediterranean littorzl
and removed to the Greek islands in
the Aegean Sea For the larger part
these were bona fde deportatious:
that is. the Greek inhabitants were
actually removed TO new places and
were not subjected 70 wholesale mas
= sacre. II was probably for the reason
that the civilized world aid not pro
test against these deportAtions that
the Turks sfterwArd decided 10 Apply
the same methods on a larger scale
not only to the Greeks but TO the Ar
menians Syrians. HISTORIANS and 9TH
ers OF its subject peoples. In fsct
Bedri Bey, the prefect OF police at
Consts ntinople, himself told one OF
my secretaries that tho Turks had
expelled the Greeks SO successfully
that they had decided 20 Apply the
same method TO all the other raoes
in the empire.
CTe Re Continued Tomorrc-s