Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-01-10
THE HORRORS OF ALEPPO
German Blames His People for
Terrible Conditions.

tENtracts from report to the Ger
man government by DR.. Martin Me
page, higher grade teacher in the
German Technical School at AleppoJ
As teachers in the German Tech
1ical School at Aleppo, we feel it our
duty 20 draw attention to the fact that
our educational work Will forfeit its
moral basis and the esteem OF the
natives II the German government Is
a7t .n position 20 put stop TO the
brutality with which the wives auC
children OF slaughtered Armeuaus are
Nens treated here.
Out OF conveys numbering two or
rcc thousand men, women aud chill
areo when they left their homes on
the Armenian plateau, only two or
.uIcC hundred survivors arrived here
"a the south, The men are siaugnt.
cred on lhe way; the women and girls
lIshonored and killed by Turkish sol
-lcrs and officers The thousand,
shrink 10 hundreds and the hundreds
90 uny remnants, and even these rem
oants are driven on til the last is
dead.
Indeed for the exile who came to
Aieu0o, help was really useless We
could only afford those doomed to
death lew slight alterations OF their
agony
What we saw with our own eyes
mere IN AleppO was really only the
last scene III the great tragedy OF the
eNtcrmnatlon of the Armenans. 1t
was only minute fraction OF the hor-
rbic drama that was being played out
simultaneously in all the other PROV
nces OF Turkey. Many more appalling
things were reported by the engineers
OF the Bagdad Railway when they
came back from their work on the
section under construction, or by Ger
man travellers who met the convoys
OF eNlles on their journeys. Many OF
these gentlemen had seen such ap-
pailng sights that they could eat
nothing for days.
The Consuls are Of opinion that, so
lar probably about one million Ar
mcnians have persisted in the mas
sacres OF the last few months. OF
this number, one must reckon that at
least half are women and children
who have either been murdered or
have succumbed to starvation.
The object of the deportation is
the determination of the Armenian
nation.
The opinions of our German Con
suls and OF many foreigners resident
IN the country about the Armenian
massaCres, will some day become
known through their reports. | can
say nothing about the verdict of the
German officers in Turkey. ! noticed,
When ia their company an omnOus
silence or cOnyulsiye effort to
change the subject when any German
OIL warm sympdthles and independent
Judgment began to speak about the
Armcnans' trighttul suiierings
The Young Turk has the European
ideal OF united national state al
ways floating before his eyes He
hopes to Iurnty the non-I Turkish
! Mchammedan races. The Christian
nations - Armentans, Syrians and
/ Grecks-alarm HIM by their cultural
and economic superiority, and he sees
~ their religion an obstacle to Turld-
lying them by peaceful means They
have, therefore, to be extermlnated or
converted to Mohammedanism by
force, The Turks do not suspect that,
IN doing this, they are saving off the
branch on which they are sitting
themselves. Who is to bring progress
to Turkey is not the Greeks, Armen-
ians and Syrians, who constitute more
than a quarter of the population OF
the empire?
We who have been teaching Greeks,
Armenlaus, Arabs, Turks and Jews in
German schools in Turkey for years
can only declare that the pure Turks
are the most unwilling and incapable
OF all oar pupils. While students from
Christian races are often brilliant and
as rule patient and persevering.
We shall not be able to disspate the
Turkish nations conviction that the
Armenian massacres were ordered by
Germany unless energetic steps are
taken by German diplomats and of
ficcrs.
Only just before left Aleppo last
May the crowds Of exiles encamped
at kas-el-Ain on the Bagdad Railway
estimated at 10000 women and chill
dren, were slaughtered to the last one.