Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-10
WIPE TURKEY FROM
MAP '--PROF. HALL
Local Man Says Upon Affairs Of
Turkey Depends Future
Peace
STORY OF MISDEEDS


tai of December 3, the local commit
tee on Armenian and Syrian relief
consists of Mrs. s. S. Hepburn, chair
man: Mrs Robert B. Dashiel, vice
chairman; Miss Katherine Walton.
Miss Mary r. Magruder, treasurer; and
Prof. Angelo Hall, publicity agent. A
drive for funds is scheduled for jan
uary II to. January 10. Mr.. Hall said:
The affairs of Turkey need close
watching, for out of them will spring
the issue of future peace or war If
the Powers of Europe bolster up a
government based upon wholesale
massacre, they will pay the price of
another war. Now is the time to
wipe Turkey off the map forever.
I'm English and American news
papers the past few days have appear
ed articles to this effect: The pres
ent Sultan of Turkey is apologetic-
he condemns the misdeeds of Enver
Pasha and Talaa. Bey, who fiourished
on German gold and are now in hid
ingrthe recent masscre of 100000
Aremenian men, women and children
is very much regretted by a majority
of Turks-and so forth, and so forth,
and so forth
Tell it to the marines, For it may
yet become necessary for them to
smash the Turk as they smashed the
Hun. Massacre has been a cardinal
principle of Turkish rule for CEN
tury. In 1922, $4,000 Greeks were
massacred in the island of Chios. In
1850, 10000 Mes orians and Armeni-
ans were massacred in Kurdistan.
In 1860, 1900 Marosites and Syrians
were massacred in Lebanon and Da-
mascus. In 1876, 10000 Bulgarians
were massacred. From 1894 to 1896,
100000 Armenians were massacred
throughout the Turkish Empire, from
Sassoun to Constantinople.
"In 1908, Sultan Abdul the Damned,
who had ordered the massacres last
mentioned, was dethroned by the
young Turks, who took the reins of
power amid universal rejoicing. All
the citizens of Turkey we're to enjoy
civil liberty, and Armenians entered
into their new political responsible
ties with enthusiasm, and with loyalty
to the new government
But in less than a year, their pa
triotism was rewarded by the terrible
Adana massacre, when in 1909, $4,000
Armenians were butchered under the
regime of the young Turks. The leop-
ard does not change his spots, nor the
Turk his Mohammedan fanaticism.
do not advocate the slaughter of all
Turks, but the proper place for leopz
ards is a geological garden; and the
Turks might better be employed as
shepherds and farmers as political ty-
rants
in spite of the massacre at Adana,
following only Is years after the Sas-
soun massacre, the Armenians re-
mained loyal to the young Turks, and
when the war with the Balkan states
broke out in 1912, they Tough. bravely
in the Turkish army. Indeed, they
were publicly commended by their
Turkish commanders. For the Arme-
mans are not towards. When the
Turk starts in to massacre them he
contrives to disarm them first True.
they have been cowed for years; and
American missionaries have been
teaching them to turn the other cheek
when we might better have been send
| ing them rifles and ammunition. Their
reward for loyalty to the young Turk
was the most stupendous massacre
of all that of 1915, when 100000 men,
women and children were done to
death in the most fendish manner
imaginable