The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-21
GREATEST SINGLE HORROR
Ever Perpetrated Against Mankind Was
BY Turks.

The massacre and deportation of the
Christian Armenians is characterized by
Henry Morgenthau, former United States
ambassador to Turkey, as "the greatest
single horror ever perpetrated in the his.
tory of humanity" The former ambas-
sador to the Ottoman empire, in his re-
port to the state department at Wash
ington, also stated emphatically that the
deportation of Armenians was carried
out on orders issued by the Turkish gov
ernment.
"The Turkish authorities had stopped
all communication between the provinces
and the capital in the naive belief that
they could consummate this crime of the
ages before the outside world was aware
of it," declared Mr.. Morgenthau. "But
the information filtered through. 1t
came from consuls, from missionaries
from foreign travellers and even from
Turks We soon learned that orders had
been issued to the governors Of the PROV
lnces to send into exile the entire Arme-
nian population in their Jurisdiction, ir-
respective of age and sex. The local of
ficers, with few exceptions, carried out
literally these instructions. All the able
bodied men had either been drafted into
the army or disarmed. The remaining
people, old men, women and children
we're subjected to the most cruel and out
rageous treatment"
Few nations have suffered as much as
Armenia" says Morgenthau. $50 ter
rible and continuous have been the atroc-
tiles to which it has fallen victim that
the very name of Armenia has, to most
bf US, become synonymous with martyr
som. Its sufferings during the present
catastrophe have been greater than any
known in the history of the world. None
pf the fearful horrors perpetrated in the
various zones of the war can compare
with the tragic lot of the Armenians.
'The final and worst measure used
against the Armenians was the wholesale
deportation of the entire population from
their homes and their exile to the desert
with all the accompanying horrors of the
way. No means were provided for their
transportation or nourishment. The vic
inns, including the most refined and re-
Epected men and women, had to walk on
foot, exposed TO the attacks of bands OF
criminals specially organized for that
purpose. Homes were literally uprooted
families were captured; men killed, WON
en- and girls violated daily on the way OF
taken to harems. Children were thrown
into the rivers or sold to strangers by
their mothers to save them from starva-
lion. The facts contained in the reports
received at the American embassy in
Constantinople from absolutely trust
worthy eyewitness surpass the most
beastly and diaboical cruelties ever be.
fore perpetrated or imagined in the his.
tory of the world"
The appeal of Ambassador Morganthau
10 his friends in America resulted in the
establishment of the first relief work
among the Armenians by Americans
From that small group of personal
friends has developed the American com.
mittee for Armenian and Syrian relief
It has now been assigned the entire near
East territory by the Red Cross under
the name, Committee for Armenian and
Syrian Relief. 1t will conduct from Jan
u to 10 nationwide campaign to raise
b30,0o0,000 for the relief and rehabilita,
tion of the starving and destitute people