The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-13
hun BARBARITIES
WILDLY PAINTED
Terrible German Atrocities
in Armenia Narrated
by Missionary.
DIR. COAN TALKS HERE
EYEWITNESS to Sufferings
of Asiatic Peoples
Asks for Help.

Stories illustrating the magnitude,
the horror and the awfulness of tn.
almost unspeakabe crimes committed
against the Armcnlans by the Turks
were graphically told in lecture last
night by DIR. Frederick G.. Coan. I; mis-
sionary, before large crowd at the
First Presbyterian church.
Germany" he said, has wanted to
own Turkey. They have sent their
missionaries merchants and agents to
inocnlate the Turks with German ideas.
Every German agent was spy. The
Germans could have accomplished their
object with the completion of the Bag
dad railway. Their plan was to get
hold Of the Mohammedan world and
they sent their emssaries to tell the
Turks that the Germans would give
them freedom, and any way they were
going to win and il was best for the
Turks to come over to their side. The
people were made pro-German, espe-
cialIy in Turkey and Persia, but not
o. In the other parts of the Moham-
medan world"
Evon Wonammedans 6atk.
He told Of the plans of Germany to
call holy war, a thing so diabolicaI
that even the head of the Moham-
medanS refused to issue the order cali
Ing on his people to carry on a religi
GUS war.
The Mohammedan world proved
that II was above its religion"
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were against Germany, but the coun-
try had been sold out by the govern
ment to the central powers The Ger
mans were in control. but the great
mass OF the people were against the
war.
Then he related how, under sealed
orders, the Turks had been commanded
ny the Germans to massacre the Ar
menians on certain day. 1t appeared
that the Turks were to blame. but The
Germans had been the instigators of
the whole thing.
Tortures Of Barbarians.
People were tortured, thrown in
PRISON, ruthlessly butchered. Toe
nails and finger nails were pulled out,
Dcnes crushed and hot GOALS placed on
their backs while some were beaten Ia
pulp. The Armenians were n loyal
people and at the outbreak of the war
were willing to fight for the Turk,
against their friends, tho Allies. At
one time 100000 Armenians were dis
armed by the Turks and butchered
Ihey had never done anything to war
rant such treatment.
There are men who have come to
TINS country as haven. There ale
some OF them now who don't know,
where they stand some are pacifiz.s
and some of them are disloyal. oh, !
won'd like to put them in the place of
those Armcnians."
Or. Coan related how the Germans
mad ordered the deporting of the Ar
menians. The Germans, he said, had
caiied II colonization. but the real
word for 1t was determination. At one
Nme 5000 We're taken out onto the
fsiack sea in boats and then drowned.
like rats.
All through that country YOU can
Iind your way from city to city BY
following the lines of bleached bones
Forced to Dig Own Graves.
The Armcnans were marched along
me not dry roads and never allowed
10 stop to 1uench their thirst. At nigh.
the rnffians of the country were turned
loose to assault the women Instances
We're related of how they had been
forced to dig their own graves and
were then bayonotcd and buried In
them. Another case was describe
When 1000 Armcntaus were showed ic
oeath over preCipiCe. A horrihn
tale was told of how 1000 bows AMI
girls had been flung into a pit satur-
ased with oil, and burned while ,hch
tHrmentors danced around TO tn. iunC
OF fife and drum.
Y am holding back rather thar XIV.
ing an said DR.. Coan.
There were many more tales of al.
most unbelievable cruelty told TIL,
1hc related the story OF how cocoa helm.
less people had been saved hv the pro.
tecting folds OF the American flag
When a large army of Turks had in,
tended to massacre them.
According to rr, Codn, there ar,
'N'''''' HN'i WING .NhlehialfS VINO Wi
die IL they do not receive ala from
this county. There is no need to shi,
food over, he said, because there is
plenty there. but lii" money with whicl
TO purchase ii is needed. The 'rurkisl
government is willing that this wori
should be carried on.
Dr. Coan WIS the guest of the Rotar,
club and the executive committee o
the chamber of commerce at luncheon
yesterday lie made Ii brief. effectiv,
speech upon conditions in the far cas-,