The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-01-09
TIE HORRORS OF ALEPPO
German Blames His People for
Terrible Conditions.

EXTRACTS from report to the Ger
man government by Dr. Martin Me
page, higher grade teacher in the
German Technical School at Aleppo.)
AS teachers in the German Tech
nical School at Aleppo, we teel it our
duty to draw attention to the tact that
our educational work will forfeit Its
moral basis and the esteem OF the
natives If the German government IS
not in a position to put stop to the
brutality with which the wives and
children of slaughtered ArmenianS are
beng treated here.
Out of conveys numbering two. or
three thousand men, women and chill
dren when they lett their homes on
the Armenian plateau, only two or
three hundred Survivors arrived here
in the south. The men are slaught-
cred on the way; the women and glrls
dishonored and killed by Turkish SOL
diers and officers. The thousands
shrink to hundreds and the hundreds
to tiny remnants, and even these rem
nants are driven on till the last is
dead.
Indeed, for the exile who came to
AlepDo, help was really useless. We
could only afford those doomed to |
death few Slight alterations of their |
agony. EE
What we saw with our own eyes |
here In Aleppo was really onlv the
last scene IN the great tragedy of the |
OF the Armenians. 1t
was only minute traction OF the hor-
riDle drama that was beng played out
in all the other PROV
noes OF Turkey. Many more appalling
-nings were reported by the engineers
of the Bagdad Railway when they
came back from their work on the
section under construction, or by Ger
nan travellers who met the conyoys
,t exiles on their journeys. Many OF
hese gentlemen had seen sucn ap-
'aillng sights that they could eat
lotnlng tor days.
The Consuls are of opinion that, so
ar, probably about one million Ar /;
nenians have persisted in the mas
acres OF the last few months. OF ,
ms number, one must reckon that at !
east half are women and children {
Who have either been murdered or :
ave succumbed to starvation.
The object of the deportation is !
he determination of the Armenian
alton.
The opinions of our German Con-
uls and of many foreigners resident :
4 the country, about the Armenian
1assacres, Will some day become
nown through their reports. l can
ay nothing about the verdict of the z
Ierman officers in Turkey. / noticed, :
then In their company, an ominous
llence or convulsive effort to
hange the subject when any German
warm sympathies and independent
Idgment began to speak about the
rmenians' frightful sufferings.
The Young Turk has the European c;
leal of united national state al %
avs floating before his eyes. He
opes to Turkify the on-Turkish II
lohammedan races. The Christian &
atoms - Armenians, Syrians and a,
reeks-alarm him by their cultural K
Id economic superiority, and he sees
their religion an obstacle to. Turki-
ing them by peaceful means. They If
I'VE, therefore, to be exterminated or n,
inverted to Mohammedanism by cl
rec. The Turks do not suspect that. w
dong this, they are saving off the &C
'anch on which they are sitting ca
emselves. Who is to bring progress th
Turkey is not the Greeks, Armen- Dc
MS and Syrians, who constitute more fl,
an quarter of the population of be
e empire? fr
We who have been teaching Greeks. ha
Arabs, Turks and Jews in
erman schools in Turkey for years
only declare that the pure Turks ha
the most unwilling and incapable Sc
all our pupils. While students from TIL
tristan races are often brilliant and pa
a rule patient and persevering. re-
we shall not be able to dissipate the to
lrkish nations conviction that the
menian massacres were ordered by
unless energetic steps are arr
zen by German diplomats and Of de
erS. am
Only just before / left Aleppo last dr.
~ the crowds of exiles encamped SCI
Ras-el-Ain on the Bagdad Railway. fol
at 10000 women and chill. no
IN, were slaughtered to the last one. de-