Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-08-02
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NOT FIT TO Read
(By d.. Frank Crane.) }

Here is something not fit to read
Still, it is fact, horrible, undenia-
/ Bile fact And it is we'll for US to
lift the lid of Hell, which is called
1 Turkey" as the Russians say, and
/ get some idea of what is going on, no
J matter how it siekens us.
Mrs. Esther Mugerditchian, the
wife of an Aremenian patsor is the
{ trustworthy relator of what follows
quote from THE New Armenia"
magazine:
Later on came the days of terror;
/ Professor Tenekediian, Professor Blu
iikanian, and Der Varten, the pastor,
were tortured and maltreated. They
hung the victims head downward,
and under the pretense of endeayor-
ing to make them disclose secrets,
plucked the hair of their heads and
mustaches, and pinched their bodies
with pincers. The prisoners cried in
vain for help.
There was no limit to the fog
ging Professor Tenekedjian endured.
They crushed his hands and feet in
the press, and pulled out his nails
with pineers; they pierced his face
with needles, and put salt on the
wounds they forced him to take
eggs out of boiling water and put
them under his Ermpits until they
cooled. I hey hung him head down
ward from the roof. beating him all
day long; they forced him to stand
up for eight days in drain, and they
hung him head downward for three
hours a - Then an attempt
was made to induce Professor Tene-
kedjian to sign a document which
read as follows: "The whole Armen-
ian Nation, from the children of Eve
years to the age of seventy-five, con-
menians plotted secretly to massacre
the Turkish males by rifles and the
females by means of razors." All
threats were in vain, so they sent for
some scavengers and ordered him to
then they put a red-hot
copper vase on his head, burning his
scalp and hair. Finally they hayed
himl
Professor Bujikanian was expos
ed to the same tortures. After the
usual torments they pulled. out his
nails and scared the wounds with hot
irons until he went mad. But when
they asked him: Where are the ri
fes?' and in reply he said, The rifles
are in my head they cruelty crushed
his head under the press. Mrs. Bu-
jikanian took the blood-stained shirt
of Professor Bujikanian to the Ger
man missionary, Mr.. Ehemann, who
only replied, lean do nothing
"Mardiros Muradian was exposed
to the same tortures by the Turks.
First of all he was given 1000 lash
es; then they put out his eyes, and
in this miserable condition led him
round the city, and took him again
to the prison, where Ria, the police
commissary, kicked him to death.
The following day they sent to his
wife the blood-stained carpet on
which he had been killed. Orders
were given to bury him It o'clock
in the morning, without a coffin and
face downward, to prevent the pastor
seeing his disfgured face, but the
pastor managed to see that the face
of the deceased had ben burned by
acid"
This is in Turkey. friend and COM
panion in arms with Germany.
This is why the Democracies of the /
earth are going forth to war.
And whether or not we declare
formal war on Turkey, the Yanks
now fighting across the sea are not /
going to come back till this sort of 1
thing is over "over there"
Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane) I