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

Extracts from a report to the Ter
man government by Or. Martin Me
page, higher grade teacher IN the
German Technical School at Aleppo9
As teachers in the German Tech
meal School at Aleppo, we teel 1t our
duty to draw attention TO the I~Gt 'n~'
our educational Work Will IolLeiI ~
moral basis and the esteem Oh the
natives II the German government 10
not in a position to put stop 10 tue
brutality with which the wives Anu
children OF slaughtered ArmenianS are
Deing treated here.
Out OF conveys numbering two or
three thousand men, women ana CHI
dren when they lett their homes Oh
the Armenian plateau, only TWO OF
three hundred Survivors arrived mere
IN the south. Inc men are sIaught-
cred on the way; the women and girls
dlshonored ana killed by turkish sol
dlers and officers. Inc 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
AlepOo, help was really useless. We
could only afford those doomed to
death a few slight alterations OF their
agony.
What we saw with Our own eyes
here III Aleppo was really only the
last scene IN the great tragedy OF the
determination OF the Armenians. 1t
Ia nt %
rlDle drama that was beng played out
simultaneously in all the other prov
lnces 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 conveys
of exiles on their journeys. Many OF
these gentlemen had seen such APP
palling sights that they could eat
nothing Tor days.
The Consuls are of opinion that, so
far, probably about one million Ar
menlans 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
WIZ nave SlUEI DGEU VI
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. l can
say nothing about the verdict of the
German officers in Turkey. | noticed,
when in their company, an ominous
| silence or a convulsive effort to
change the subject when any German
OF warm Sympathies and independent
! Judgment began to speak about the
Armenians' frlghtful sufferings.
The Young Turk has the European
ideal of united national state al
ways floating before his eyes. He
hopes to Turkify the non Turkish
Mohammedan races. The Christian
nations - Armenians, Syrians and
Greeks-alarm him by their cultural
and economic superiority, and he sees
IN their religion an obstacle to Turk
lying them by peaceful means. They
nave, therefore, to be eXterminated 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.
Armenians, 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 our pupils. While students from
Christian races are often brilliant and
as rule patient and persevering.
We shall not be able to dissipate the
Turkish nations conviction that the
armenian massacres were ordered bv
Germany, unless energetic steps are
taken by German diplomats and Of
tlcers.
Only just before l left Aleppo last
May the crowds of exiles encamped
at Ras-el Ain on the Bagdad Railway.
estimated at 10000 women and chi,
dren, were slaughtered to the last one