| Show Armenian Horrors Bared Eared I u 2 4 J C L 4 J A 4 S L K V b cj Girls Gi Tell of Slavery Hundreds Forced to March Marc h 1 N Naked aked Far Into Desert Des Des- ert Land New York June 7 Stories Stories told b by y Christian women and girls of or Armenia Armeni a a who were deported from Crom their homes led to virtual ty or slavery Inthe in ln inthe the camps of or the Turks a af art ard Arabs A or held ri capUri e In Tu Tuk Ish isle Hirs h-a-Hirs i In Asia Minor have b cu eu receives e t 1 t 0 ro e by the thc American Committee Committee Com Coin mitten for Armenian and Syrian Relief Relle The statement issued by the committee commit commit- tee says sars that tho the women hose rhose narratives narratives narratives nar nar- arc made mado public were released b by their masters or rescued by allied troops After Arter tho the sh signing nin of or the armistice says the committees committee's statement m many ny of the Turks believing that by so doing loIng do- do Ing the they could escape punishment turned the women women many many of or them with babies Into babIes Into the street Cablegrams Cablegrams Cable Cable- grams rams to the committees have hav reported that numbers of or these women were wandering about the country crazed b by starvation end and exposure As fast as possible tho they thoy are being gathered up by tho the committees committee's relief worker workers and placed place In n homes established for Cor their care A late telegram said that fifteen fifteen teen such homes have been established in Asia Asa Minor Affidavits SI Signed feigned ed Stories of or the these c Armenian victims of ot Turkish atrocity were obtained 1 by Dr Loyal Loal L. L WIrt member of or an expedition expedition tion sent to Turkey by the committee The They are aro taken talen down as related by Dr W. W A A. A l Kennedy ennedY field director of the Lord LordIa Mayors Mayor's Ia Relief fund of Lon Lon- don After Arter taking them down Dr Kennedy assured Dr Wirt he personally personally person person- all ally read re-read the affidavits to the narrators narrators nar nar- and the they signed them In his I presence Together these tales talc constitute one of the tragic chapters of or the war They were rot not isolated cases but in some instances the ex experiences of as 1 many manyas as refugees who had been driven from their homes and forced on journeys journeys jour jour- of hundreds of or miles Hiles from fertile Armenia Into the borders of oC the Syrian desert On the tho wa way hundreds at a alime time lime were separated and mas massacred acre often of- of oCten of often I ten in the most diabolical way a Hundreds of or Iris Girls Seized ed I Hundreds of or girls sirls were torn from I Ithe the other members numbers of oC their family and taken none knows where by the tho Turks furles Kurds or Scores were compelled to live livo in captivity naked for months and suffering from and beatings Armenian girls Sirls who escaped death were bartered like cattle eattle after aCter their fathers or relatives relatives relatives rel rel- had vain vainly 1 paid ransom for them thern Some saw their fathers or friends murdered In tho tents of the Arabs In the tho tho Syrian desert man many were bound an and forcibly tat oe on the forehead lips and chin lo to mark them themas as Moslem women Generally tho the stories Indicate that hat the captives move moved sometimes in large larSo groups from Armenia southward toward the thc desert of or Syria The stories told b by at least three Armenian Chris Chris- f tian girls deal leal with the thc movement o ot of otone one ono of ot those these great groups c consisting of 2000 families or persons One story of ot the awful Journey Into the desert was told by b- Takouhi a a. girl of or eighteen who with her father mother four Cour sisters and anda a brother was deported from rom In indana Adana dana province in May 1 a 1915 They were moved southward to Aleppo and thence further on toward the Syrian daser d until the party numbered about I 2000 At aria Sl she said the they were told that on payment of Turkish hires lIres they thc would bo be al atoned l. l to l return hundreds Hundred Killed I I Tho The refugees said t tt-C tt they cy could not notI I give h c j this amount the thi Armenian girl I told Dr Kenned Kennedy Then the Cl-cas- Cl suns of or the tribe of or who had control of ot them separated out 1100 atthe of at the poorer families ana took toole them away The same evening some somo of or these people returned and said they had escaped and that four our hours after aLer they left leCt the ha had be ben begun n n to kill them with studded iron-studded clubs club The remaining re remaining re- re malnin- malnin families r 1 1500 pounds and sent a deputation of two fifty men with It to bu buy their security The I amount was refused and the men m men n were j beaten and sent back The They raised an in additional liras anti and took 2000 Turkish poun pounds s in gold Sold to the begs beys who took the money and tried to force them to sl sign signa n na a paper saying the Armenians had paid no money mone to them The Tho deputation deputation deputa deputa- tion refused to do this and the fifty fifty- I two men hero Vero ero bound an and taken away iwa A few fen days lays later according to the girls girl's story the thc remaining families w Wore were re deported from SI arla and after aCter eight days das arrived at on tho the River cast of oC Es Ls Zor Men Ien Main Sin MainOn In On the wa way the girls girl's stor story went wenton on IGO men were separated and taken away and soon after aeter tho the CirI Cir Clr- j returned and l dl divided cd amonS among themselves some of the clothing which she recognized as belonging to some of tho the men which the they had taken away The Tho next day more men were taken awa away and killed As the refugees resumed their Journey journe on the tho following morning she saw the bodies of some of the men she knew They had hall been clubbed to deathA death A A few days clays after this reads the narrative they were told that for safety each cach family of or women and children was to go to the house of or an Arab The Arabs robbed them and stripped them of their clothing and sent them back to tho the who commenced at once to kill them with knives two Twenty boys bos and eleven cleven girls were saved and taken to the tho tents of the and she was taken taleen with her sister to the village village vil vil- lage of where sho she was beaten because sho she did not loot give gold they the believed ed she had Part Party of or tOO HOO Naked nirl After Artor having been kept a while by bya a she sho and her sister were bent to another and then to the house of another In She Is now in tho the orphanage orphan orphan- age e at Aleppo and her sister r is in an Armenian house in Other incidents evidently dealing with this terrible journey journe of ot the Armenians Armenians Armenians Ar Ar- to were related to I I Dr Or I Kennedy nned b by A Arua rasa a of or 1 17 who was 5 a a. pupil In the I American girls girls' school at Bazaar Ada-Bazaar in the western portion of Asia Minor lInor near Constantinople Sho She spoke poke Eng Eng- English lish At AC tho narrative c says she saw flaw a n party part of men women and childen all naked It waRIn was waR in July Ju and their backs had hall been glistered blistered b by tho the sun and n m many of thorn them I had d bruises all over their limbs and bodies and sores caused b by the beatings beatings beat treat I ings they had hal received During the heat of or tho the da day the they would lie He covered cov eo covered ered cred In tho the water as the tho pain In tho the sun was nas unbearable Dc Before ore she arrived at She h. h t two o of oC her brothers died lIed at Bab Dab and her father at another place As 5 the Arabs were taking only unmarried girls from among the refugees her I mother told them she sho was wons married At her mother was t sold to one I Arab and she to another and the girl Sill lived in his house for a year car Sheltered h by Girl She ran awa away and an nn Arab girl irl took her into a tent where she stayed for Cor eighteen months when she again S' S ran away and II finally reached bin This journey Journe from Ada Bazaar acro across s sAsia Asia Minor linor to Zor Hs occupied a year and ln a half according to the story told by an another ther girl of ot 1 17 j years Ar Ar- pouch Del Der daughter of oC a n teacher In a high school at Bar a Il bright Intelligent ent girl whose family was known to Dr I Kennedy enned Reporting her stor story atory of the journey journo Dr Ur Kennedy Kennedy Ken Ken- nod nedy wrote I II I Tier Her grandfather was killed before her eyes and she saw between and md men shot an and cut down by the sword Those These men were bound In groups of ten ten arm to arm She saw at the same place women and children Trilled killed with studded iron-studded clubs and knives The Tho bodies were afterwards soaked with and set sot on fire e This was nas done b by on the thc side sido of ot a hill near Armenians Slain About young Armenian men who dressed as girls were discovered and put to death by the One I of oC these was flayed alive and thrown into the River Habour I After Arter this the would not allow them to get et food and two weeks later the they were sent to Mariam bribed tho the Che Che- chens not to send them further into the thc desert was taken to the tent of an Arab rab and kept for eight months who she escaped with the assistance as- as as assistance of her younger brother DUrIn During Dur DUr- I as-I ing In- her stay moved from I Place to place as the Arabs changed the tents for or better pasturage for ford I their camels She was firmly bound and held to the thc ground roun by uy Turkish sol- sol diem llers while her face was being tat tat- tat 1 The Tho family was united afterWard afterward after after- I aler-I ward with the exception of at the tho father Cather who disappeared at Zor Deir I |
