Show 1 O 6 WAR siN siN-CO E 1 I t A i- i Once Germanys Germany's Friends Stirred to o Deadly H a armenians by Murderous Outrages German erman Political Cowardice an and British Let Gallipoli Victory Slip r By b Petty Thievery Cited re errs a Ii Had Won It Correspondent Sets Forth or Not Knowing ng They e y a on J BY DR HARRY S Copyright 1918 CHAPTER III in Continued From Yesterday r. r verified of the tho scandalous conduct of two Iwo German Gorman officers H I HF 1 r L t fi vise rase e is ib well known and has been heen absolutely houses and barn bam their p in far Asia Minor inor where the Armenians had l taken refuge 0 in passing through a village c 1 u uThe 01 i theta them lo to prevent being The Thc The order had boeh beeh given that gunst guns t re to b be turned on them but not a Turk lurl had tho the coura courage e to carry carryout 1 out out this order and fIfe tiro on worsen and Without an any authority what what- r I lit r the tho two German officers ers then t t t ned to and gave I an nn exhibition of or Weir their shooting capacities 8 uch shameful acts are arc of course Isolated isolated holat ll ca cases cs c but hut the they arc on a par Jt f the Ule opinions expressed about the Armenian people h by dozens of e edu- edu uil u- u il d Germans of or high position position not not tol to l s 5 speak cak of military men at all A case c of or this kind where German Getman o diers were guilty of or an attack on on in the Interior of or Anatolia n fas s the subject of or frequent official I Id I'd d discussion at the German embassy and was aR finally brought to the notice of or the authorities In Germany German b by Graf Metternich a really high prin and humane man The Tho material result of this was that through h tho of i of cowardice of or our govern govern- nt this this' man who man who In spite of or his 4 age e and aud In contrast to the tho weak mind g c l von on and c criminally optimistic had made manyan many manyan an an l attempt to get et a firmer grip of ot the Turkish government was government was simply houn pd out of or office b by the Turks I and weakly sacrificed without a J struggle w M gle le IC lJ by Berlin I I. I rs J Pdt Petty Theft Practiced What What finally is one to think of ot the spirit of our German officials In regard re regard re- re gard to to the tho Armenian question when one rone one hears heals such well verified tales as asis is were cre re told me shortly before I left lert Constantinople c lJ by an eminent Hungarian Hun Hun- garian 1 banker whose whoso name I will not nat reveal lie related for example that K I l German officer with the title of ot otI I baron and closely connected with t the ther h da to the r military went one day bazaar bi In n Stamboul and chose a ible ble carpet from an Armenian which tHe ire had put down to his account and ent to his house In fn Pera Then when J 1 Ji camo came to pa paying for It It he promptly f set et the price r 20 o lower than ha had been stipulated and indicated to the Ar Ar- nenian denier dealer that in view of f the good understanding between himself the officer officer and the Turkish president of ot police ho he would do well weB not to trouble I further in the matter maUer I only rUe Cite this case because I am unfortunately compelled to bt believe Jle e In Its absolute absolute ab- ab solute Jute authenticity Shortsighted horts stupidity rinaU finally leate Is le haw ate how I characterized the Inactive toler- toler atlon lion on tho the part of or our Imperial representatives rep rep- rep l' l es of or this policy of ot exter- exter of or the Armenian race Our W government could not have been blind to to the breaking flood of or Turkish jingoism Jingoism jingoIsm Jingo jingo- ism and no one ono with any glimmer of or foresight could coul have doubt doubted d for tor n a a 1 Ii cacti moment since the summer of or 1916 that Turkey would only onh go 0 with us so 1011 long longas as ns needed our military and financial fInancial financial finan fInan- cial aid ald and that we wo should have ha no place not ev even n a purely purel commercial one In a fully Turk Turkey Once l hip ow 0 hate In of tho the lamentations one heard often orten enough from the mouths of officials over O this well recognized and unpalatable fact rl wo we tolerated the I extermination of or a n race of ot over oyer one ono and a half halt millions of ot people of or progressive progressive pro pro- culture with tho the European point of or view Intellectually adaptable fa fanaticism fanaticism fa- fa absolutely free from Jingoism and and eminently cosmopolitan In n feeling we wo permitted the disappearance disappearance p of tho the only conceivable counterbalance counterbalance counterbalance coun coun- to the hopelessly nationalistic nationalistic national natIonal- Young Turkish element element ele ele- ment and through our cowardice and lack of or conscience have Q made macho dead deadly I enemies of ot the few tew that will 1111 rise from tho the ruins of a race that used to be In thorough lt h sympathy with Germany German An Intelligent German government would In face of the Increasingly evident evident evi evi- dent Young Turkish spirit have used very means In their power to retain tho the sympathies of ot the Armenians and Indeed to win them In greater num- num bers beis The Armenians waited for tor us us trembled with impatience for us to give hc a definite ruling Their disappointment disappointment nt their hatred hatrell of or us Is unbounded un unbounded unbounded un- un bounded now now and and rightly so and so-and and ifa If It Ifa Ita a German ever eyer again wants to take tak up business ii In the cast he will have to reckon with this afflicted people so 80 long IonS as one of or them exists Cowardice To answer cr the Armenian question In Inthe Inthe Inthe the way war I have done here one does docs not necessarily need to have e the slightest liking or the least sympathy for them themas as a race I have however howo intimated intimated inti inti- mate mated that they deserve at least that much from their high Intellectual and social abilities One only requires to have a feeling for humanity to abhor the wa way in III which hundreds of ot thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of ot the these e unfortunate people were disposed of or ono one only requires to understand the commercial and social needs of or a vast country like Turkey so 80 undeveloped and yet yot ot so capable of development de to place the highest value oil 01 the preservation of or this restless ac active ac- ac thc tive and eminently useful element clement one only requires to open ones one's eyes oyes and look 1001 at the facts dispassionately to den deny utterly and absolutely what the Turks have nave tried to make the world believe about tho the Armenians In order that the they might go so on with their work of ot extermination in fn peace and quiet one onI only requires to have a slight ht feeling of ot ones one's dignity as nB a aGerman Gorman German t to refuse to condone th the piti plU- ful cowardice of our government o over tho the Armenian J que question l Tell II Gazette tt th the Truth The Tho mixture of lack cowardice cowardice lack of or conscience and lack of ot torell foresight ht of or which our government has been guilty In Armenian affairs Is Quito quite enough to undermine completely the tho political loyalty of or un any thinking man who has an any regard for tor humanity and civilization ol lIIa tion Every Ever German cannot bo bl expected expected expected ex ex- ex- ex to bear as JI light heartedly ht as the tho diplomats of or Pera tho the shame of ot having history point to the fact that the annihilation with eVer every refinement refine mont ment of ot cruelty of or a a. people of or high social development numbering over o one and a half haJ millions way was cont contemporaneous contemporaneous m- m with Germanys Germany's greatest power In Turkey In long confidential reports to In my paper I made perfectly clear to them the whole position with regard to the Armenian persecutions and the brutal Jingoistic spirit of or the Yo Jn Young Turks apparent In them The foreign office too too took notion of these reports But nut ButI I saw no trace of or the fruits of or this knowledge go In the tho attitude of my mr paper The determination n n. cr to re enter the editorial offices of or that paper came to me on that dramatic occasion when my wife wire hurled her hor denunciation of or Germany German In m my teeth tenth I at least owe a n per personal onal debt of ot gratitude to tho the poor murdered and tortured Armenians Armeni ans for It ft Is to them I t owe o In my moral and political enfranchisement CUAl I IV r. It will be bo necessary to devote a few teon lines to a review re of or the principal features features features fea fea- tures of or the war ar so sa far as it affected tho the life lire of or the Turkish capital In order to have a 0 military and political background background back flack ground for tor what I saw among the Turks during m my twenty ont months' months sta stay In fn their country To that I will add adda a short description of or the economic situation When hen I arrived in Constantinople Turkey had already completed her first winter campaign In the Caucasus and had repelled the attack of ot the entente entente en en- tente lento fleet on the Dardanelles culminating culminating culm 1 In the events of or March IS IS 1915 1916 But nut Bayer Enver Pasha bad had completely misjudged misjudged mis mis- I jud judged cd the relation between bet the means at It his disposal and the task before him when out of ot pure vanity and a mad desire for tor expansion lon he undertook a ap I p personally conducted offensive for tor the Uthe liberation of ot th the the- Caucasus Tho The terrible ter ter- defeats Inflicted on the Turkish army on this occasion were kept from the tho knowledge of or the people by a a. rigorous rigorous rigorous rig rig- orous censorship and tho falsification of ot the This was partle- partle the case In the enormous Turkish Turkish Turk Turk- ish loss losses sustained at ha Folly Enver had put this great Caucasus offensive in hand out of or pure wanton anton roll folly thinking b by so doing to win laurels for himself and to have something something some some- thing tangible tt to show ho those tho Turkish who always had an ane e eye e on Turkestan and Turan and ancI thou thought ht that now was waa the time to carry out their of or a greater Turkey It was this mad undertaking und ing bound as It was to como come tl to grief that first showed Bayer Enver Pasha in his true truo colors I shall have something to sn say about his character In another conn connection ACtion which will 1 show how gravely ely he has b been cn overestimated In Europe Europ From the beginning of ot March 1915 1916 to the beginning of January 1916 the situation was practically entirely mUrch comman commanded ed by the battles in the Dardanelles Dardanelles Dar Dar- and Gallipoli It has now noon been accepted as ns a a. recognized fact even In the countries belonging to th the tho entente that the sacrifices of ot a fe few more ships on March 1 would have ha dech decided d the fate fato of at the thc Dardanelles s sTo To their great t astonishment the gallant gal gal- al- al mat lant defenders crR of the tho coast forts found Cound that the attack had suddenly ceased Dozens of or the German naval nl gunners g who were manning manning- the batteries of ot on that memorable day clay da told toM mo later that they had quite made mado up their minds the tho fleet would ultimately ultimately ulti ulti- win and that the they themselves could not have held out much lon longer pr Such an outcome was expected hourly in Con Constantinople and I was onas told b bv by Influential people that all aU the archives stores of ot monc money etc eta had alread already been removed romo to Victory SUp Slips Away It Is a remarkable fact that for or a second time In the first days of or Sep Sep- ember the tho fate fato of Constantinople was wasn n again aln hanging In the balance balance balance-a a fact which is no longer a secret In En England nn and France Tho The British had extended their line lino northwards from to and a heroic dash h b by the had captured the summit of or orthe the tho Dagh KoJa and so given ghen them thorh direct command of or the whole peninsula pe peninsula peninsula pe- pe of ot Gallipoli and the tho InsufficIently Insufficiently protected forts torts behind thorn thom It is still a ms m's mystery r to the people of or Constantinople why wh the British troops did not foIl follow 0 up this victory The fact tact is that this time a again aln tho mone money and archives were wera hurried off orr from Con Constantinople to toA A Asia la and a German officer In Constantinople Constantinople Con Con- gave me the entertaining Information that he had h rean really seriously seriously seri serl- thought of hiring a window In Inthe Inthe inthe the Grand Grand' Rue dc do Pera so that he and his family might watch the triumphal triumphal tri triumphal tri tri- entry of or the entente troops troops' It would be he easier callier to enjoy tho the Joke joko of this If It It were wore not overshadowed o by such fearful tra tragedy ed Continued Tomorrow |