The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-03-06
ARMENIAN MASSACRE HORRORS.
Former Ambassador to Turkey
Paints Graphic Picture.

On million Armenians, torn from
their homes without warning and
driven with bayonets into the desert
to die of thirst and starvation, is the
picture Ambassador Morgenthau
draws in his story in the November
Worlds Work. Massacres, as we
have been accustomed to think OF
them, accompanied this wholesale
eviction, in all their customary nor
ror, but they were incidental to the
Turkish governments larger scheme
of the mass murder of an entire
race. The following extract from
Mr.. Morgenthau's article gives some
of the details of this great holo-
caust in history:
..The gendarmes would appear be-
fore an Armenian house and order
all the inmates to follow them. They
would take women engaged in their
domestic tasks without giving them
a chance to change their clothes.
Even women who had just given
birth to children would be forced to
leave their beds and join in the pah-
ic-stricken throng, their sleeping ba-
bies in their arms. To their frantic
questions, where are we going?
the gendarmes would vouchsafe only
one reply, "To the interior"
Roads Thronged With Exiles.
< aFor the better part of six months,
from April to October, 1915, pract1=
cally all the highways in Asia Minor
were crowded with these unearthly
bands of exiles. They could be seen
winding in and out of every valley
and climbing up the sides of nearly
every mountaineering on and on,
they scarcely knew whittier, except
that every road led to death. Village
after village and town after town
was evacuated of it's Armenian popu-
lation, under the distressing circum-
stances already detailed. In these
six months, as far as can be ascer-
tained, about 100000 people start
ed on this journey . Syrian des-
ert.
- e Pray for US, they would say, as
they left their homes-the homes in
which their ancestors had lived for
z2,500 years. We shall not see you
In this world again, but some time
we shall meet. Pray for us.
when they had travelled for a
few hours from their starting place
the Kurds would sweep down from
their mountain homes. Rushing up
to the young girls, they would lift up
their wells and carry the pretty ones
of to the hills.
Local vagabonds were permitted
to prey upon the Armenian girls.
s.. stFor five days one band which
originally contained $4,000 refugees
did not have a morsel of bread or a
drop Of water. Hundreds fell dead
IN the way the report reads, their
tongues were turned to charcoal, and
when, at the end of five days they
reached a fountain, the whole con-
voy naturally rushed toward it. But
here the policeman barred the way
and forbade them to take sin
gle drop of water. Their purpose
was to sell it at from one to three
liras a cup, and sometimes they ac-
tually withheld the water after get
ting the money
Drank From Polluted Wells.
cat another place, where there were
wells some women threw themselves
into them as there was no rope or
pail to draw up the water. These
women were drowned, and, in spite
of that, the rest of the people drank
from that WELL. the dead bodies still
remaining there and polluting the
water. Sometimes, when the wells
were shallow and the women could
go down into them and come out
again, the other people would rush
to lick or suck their wet, dirty
clothes in the effort to quench their
thirst.
On the SEVENTEEN day few crea-
lures reached Aleppo. Out of the
combined convoy of $4,000 souls
just $50 women and children reach
ed their destination.