The Washington herald., 1918-10-30

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Talaat has told me, that he is de-
termined 10 complete this task be-
fore peace is declared. In the fu-
ture they don't intend that the RUS
sions shall be in a position to say
that they have a right to intervene
about Armenian matters because
| there are a large number of Ar
menians in Russia who are affected
by the troubles Of their corelisionists
| in Turkey. Giers used to be doing
this all the time and the Turks DO
\ not intend that any ambassador from
Russia or from any other country
| shall have such an opportunity IN
the future. The Armenians anyway
| are very poor lot. You come In
/ contact in Constantinople with Ar
menians of the educated classes. and
you get your impressions about them
from these men, but all the Arme-
mans are not of that type. Yet I ad-
nit that they have been treated ter
ribly. / sent man to make inves-
| LEGATIONS and he reported that the
worst outrages have not been COM
nitted by Turkish officials but by
brigands.' =
Explained Impossibility.
| wangenheim again suggested that
I
| States and once more 1 gave him the
reasons why this would be impossible.
! Never mind all these considera-
tions," / said Let US disregard
| everything. military necessity, state
policy and all else. and let US look
upon this simply as human problem.
| Remember that most of the people
who are being treated in this way
are old men, old women and helpless
children. Why can't you. as human
being. see that these people are per-
mitted to live?"
"At the present stage of internal
affairs in Turkey" Wangenheim re-
piled. 'I shall not intervene"
I saw that it was useless to discuss
| the matter further. He was a man
who was devoid of sympathy and
human pity and I turned from him
| in disgust. Wangenheim rose to
leave. AS he did so he gave a gasp,
and his legs suddenly shot from under
| him. 1 jumped and caught him just
as he was falling. For a minute he
! seemed utterly dazed; he looked at
me in a bewildered way. then suddenly
collected himself and regained his
poise. l took the ambassador by the
J arm, piloted him down stairs and
put him into his auto. BY this time
he had apparently recovered from
| his dizzy spell and he reached home
| safely. Two days afterward, while
! sitting at his dinner table, he had a
stroke OF apoplexy; he. was carried
I upstairs to his bed. but he never re-
| gained consciousness. On October "a
| l was officially informed that Wan
| genheim was dead. And thus my last
| recollection of Wansenhefm is that
| of the ambassador as he sat in my
ONCE in the American Embassy. abso-
| lutely refusing to exert any influ-
| ence to prevent the massacre of
, nation. He was the one man. and his
government was the one government,
that could have stopped these crimes.
but, as Wangenheim told me many
/ times, our one aim is to win this
war" g.
Paid Last Tribute.
A few days afterward official
Turkey and the diplomatic force paid
| their last tribute to this finished en-
bodiment of the Prussian system. The
| funeral was held in the garden of the
! German embassay at Pera. The in
! closure was filled with flowers. Prac-
tically the whole gathering, excepting
| the family and the ambassadors and
| the Sultan's representatives, remained
standing during the simple but i'm
pressive ceremonies. Then the pro-
cesston formed; German sailors car
! ried the bier upon their shoulders.
other German sailors carried the huge
| punches of flowers, and all members
| of the diplomatic corps and the off,
cials of the Turkish government fol-
| lowed on foot
| The grand vizier led the procession:
/ / walked the whole way with Enver.
All the officers of the Goeben and
! the Breslau, and all the German gem
erals. dressed in full uniform, fol-
lowed. 1t seemed as though the
whole of Constantinople lined the
streets, and the atmosphere had some
| Of the quality of holiday. We walk
ed to the grounds of Dolma Bagtche,
the Sultan's palace, passing through
the gate which the ambassadors enter
| when presenting their credentials
| Near the dock a beautiful steam
| launch lay on the Bosphorus. and in
this stood Neurath, the German coun-
slor. waiting to receive the body
! of his dead chieftain. The coffin was
| placed in the boat entirely covered
| with flowers. AS the launch sailed
| out into the stream Neurath, a six
| foot Prussian, dressed in hts military
| uniform, his helmet a waving mass
of white plumes. stood erect and tsi-
lent Wsngenheim was buried in the
park Of the summer embassy at
Therapia, by the side of his comrade
Col. Leipzig. No final resting place
would have been more appropriate.
for, this had been the scene of his
diplomatic successes, and 1t was
from here that, little more than
two years before, he had directed by
wireless the Goeben and the Breslau.
safely brought them into Constanti-
nople, thus made 1t inevitable that
Turkey should join forces with Ger
many, and paved the way for all the
! triumphs and all the horrors that
had necessarily followed that event.
ITO BE Continued Tomorrow,