Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-15


Lieut. fr.."r rOlllcr, who recently
returned from service m France with
li. sr.pu'. section. Twenty first di-
vision French ambuluufr CORPS Is
actin. a % Four Minute man. lie
saw action at Vcfduu, AZ S0lsSons
uud ,U thp drive on lAun In the
tf'f- schools ana club meetings he
tells ~ hi- experiences with "The
Lucky seventh as his section was
Calird
Lieutenant collier often drove his
ambulance oye' roads under fire
from the Germans ana tells of one
occasion when a recruit assigned to
his machine was Killed at his side
hy ryiug piece Of Shell which CX-
ploded '"w feet ahead OF them
such sl1lWa.l resistance that they
hSld tho 1ulk ks at bay until an OPP
portun" moment brought the Rus
sian con4n a. their aid He ordered
tho Turks away and told them he
would defiI"nd an apology from tho
governor general for their Action In
violating an American hospital con
trarv TO treaty rights. And he did.
The following morning he called at
the hospital In n carriage and drove
Dr Usher to the governor general g
headquarters where the latter made
an "OffiCili' apology and pretended
that he knew nothing ~ the raid
More IIoof against Wilhelm.
Proving that the kaiser was plan
ming the war months and even years
before II broke out in 1919 ana cN-
posing the unlruthfuncss OF his
hypocritlcal pretense after he had
klndled the blaze that Great Britain
was Responsible" Dr Usher quoted
"A statement OF the governor general
OF Harpoot TO the Turkish minister
of war In 1913, and in which he said
that tho General European war Is
about to begin" EVEN then the
kaiser had nis army experts IN Tur.
key training the Turkish soldiers in
modern wnfarc.
ShowifHg the impdNancc of sup
porting the Red Cross he told Of the
neavy loss of life iu the Turkish
armies because Of the poor equip
ment of the Turkish Rcd cross.
known as the Red Crescent" It
virtually htD 40 ambulances nor
nurses ana Was SO bound up with
red tape that II was almost useless
rhrcc fourlhs Of the Turkish army,
he declared. had been wiped out be
cause OF IN, iuefficiency of the
| Crescent Cto~H TO properly minister
to the sick Lud wounded
Much 20, the suffering has been
improved hy the help of tho hmer-
can Rod cross and the Turkc are
beginning 80 appreciate what Ameri-
can has done for them
DcsCahcs Great Suffering
br Issnvrs intimate description
81 the horrors ~ the German and
Turkish dCportations Of ArmenianS
from thaii numcs made his hearers
shiver There are 100000 Armenian
| children now starving aud nearly
| 3, S,O00. 600 men and women Of Syria
and Armenia, including halt-mil-
| Hon Jews without clothing or foqd
In the plains of Mesopotamia.
At the dIecttou ~ the Germans he
said the TutkS had uNt 10 death all
| the ntcllcctuals among the Ar
menians. drowning 10000 In one day
at TrchiZosr0 and driving 5000
Others, the wvalthicst and most IN
tellccunl ut the race, into the plains
20 pcrish, marching them through
the hot burning sun urtil their naked
bodies became festered with run
ming sores Tho only food they were
given was a sptlukling OF raw flour
i'm the palm ofatheir hands which
they licked as little children li,,
sweets from their fingers, when
thoy were about to drop from "S-
haustIon tbeX were promised land
aud food In plenty ana clothing from
the government il they would re.
uounce the christian religion and
become Mohammedans. But they
refused ana died for their faith.