Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-07

powers could mistake American mercv
! .or an? sort OF conQucst--not even the
S ,. tAai goes with religious con
scrs'on. for American RELIEF Tor tho
suhHrers tom the European war mas
aIMa!s been nonpartisan. nonpolitical
and nonSec;arian.
y Who Arc tho Ar,nenlans.
, roniih: 10 that other part OF the
tuesIoh: Who arc tho Armcnlans:" l
| ,aNe II for granted that what Is mean
- i"r me TO give my imDrcsSionS OF
"'se interesting and ancient folks AS
=, sH" them do no; UNDERSTAND
I tnat X is desired for me 10 attemp,
Even briefly. TO outline their history,
out 20 tell my fellow -counttymen who
90 DC inclined TO help these unhappy
n."p'e Just what sort of men and wo.
! men and children | saw among the Ar.
! ,neil.ahs whom met while ambassado
TO Turkey.
people have been SO long subdued anJ
heid in obscurit? that their identit.
:nohS inc civilized branches OF tho
r n,a iamily Is not well establish ed,
hnp"s this much about them: namely.
20, 80 they have been dwelling for cen
tnin IN lands OF Asia Minor, formerly
lion -, ns 70 Persia: that 4 good poy-
~" -! mem sill! dwell in the donna in
t i.rsia' some in the territory be.
ions LhS L" Russia and some in wha,
VIC may STYLE Turkish Nrmcnia: that
iiIn ail 'T nc ,neir ancestry TO iIa!s. o.
iltih' the s!andson of Japhct: Inn
thcF were freed from subjection Ia IN.
nssEriaha ana Modes 500 years before
~. .' ,irs, an" M ,na5 ,hcy are said to bo
The doctrines OF Christ
Became Chri,tias 80 4. H.
From any OF the encvclonchi,v
one may secure these racts E~nn,
auch sources may be gathered in A Few
MINUTES the religious h!sior; of tb.
Armcn!uns; how they were intr0ducnG
to Christianity about ihe year 9sS b,
GREGORY, the illumination. an,; how
among them arose the earliest nat,on,l
CHRISTIAN church, which fact brought
on bitter conflicts from time 20 tf,nc
with the Mohammcdans
II is with the Turkish Armenians
tnosc who inhabited the lands OF thG
U.'o,nan empire, and that part of rus
era ior;neriy "a par; or Turkey. that
Amcr.ca Ia most concerned ;oday In
tnc matter oil relief wo.k. They &c
INC Armen!an". with whom VIC had 10
iney are the onos who have been sub
3ectei TO such unspcokablc cruclties
K Kun thse9 orn y: ne Turks and the
~ carnage in the streets of Conslan-
ttnopie In 1896, when moro than 1000
o % mem were beaten 10 death by the
were hnaliy ordered deported from
thelr home country, and when ,hev
dLe rt to go were shot to death or
driven INTO the rivers at the points
OF bayone;s and drowned. not even The
women and children being spared.
,.nI ne'e Ar,mnenians. with millions Of
n pSopie Working inaustrous!y-men o,
men OF education ana taieni&jiwn,
h hear the russian border. All these,
T GfElIsG G ,nsS we're snspec,ed by the
with EusSia a, the time OF the out
nreak OF the European wa Russia be-
enem% were ad Idbs % ,bo Erea,ss,
government 10 be deporied; not a man
or family here and there. but a
U %HSis patton, TIC 100000 people. perhaps
children. Whole cities and towns and and
vlliascs were taken up by the ROOT
IS rs IL were and moved on foot across
states growing Jealous that the peop,e
OF the State OF Maine were in ieaEue
Win Canada and ordering them de-
Even If this had been done with
ssie,y 20 the vic,imsi il they had been
i ihoen ' ,ss srest distances, hard
gers because mos, OF them we're ex-
pectcd 70 walk across the desert IL
t;aey had at least come with families
marx tAed out for them they would have
been aolc in some poor way TO start
Robbery and Loot Begins.
but only In very few instances did
mo VINO began that journey reach
- 'oOctnCI 10 IeaNe, there began
robbery and loot and violation ~ Hn'
men me-. which ended too often in death.
IIau toaay II Is said the roads OF Tur-
Key IN Asia are whitened with IN.
; oGnss Of thousands who have per-
s asmSa, mus driven from their homes
s say, BY their relentless pursuers'
; liz Irkisn Armenians became the
iiiI-iaied people whose destiny wa. 10
Dear the ravages of this world war
,n severely of all the other peoples
Even there in constantinople the
n nu,ie we're lined with people often
er,b% for bread. Every scrap and
hha as, OF eread was kept'at the en-.
c.harty and relief work used 20 out
,.I,tIn IN q bag and give them TO these
/ never knew that people could h.
80 huhEr% unit! L saw those women
ano chilircn there. To carry on tbye
great WORK Of relief we had numerous
iihrn AMI women who volunteered In
heIp US We had to take over tho