Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 21 | Armenian People Brutally Treated

ARMENIAN PEOPLE BRUTALLY TREATED Approximately 400,000 Have Been Slaughtered or Starved to Death by Turks During War. THE HAGT?E, Netherlands, Dec. 16 (Correspondence of the Associated Press). One-halt, or SO0.00O, of the Armenian people who were under Turkish rule at the beginning of the war have been slaughtered slaugh-tered or starved to death bv Turks, according ac-cording to an indictment issued here bv several influenlial Hollanders, among whom are A. F. rie Savornin Lohman, the " wl . " . rtiiu in. AIlUllT van Oyn, formerly Dutch minister of finance. In all, they assert the Turks have deported de-ported 1.20ti.()0ti Armenian men, women and children, robbed them of all they possessed, pos-sessed, massacred the men. carried off the women and Kirls to Turkish harems and Kurdish villages, sold the children in the slave market and abandoned the remainder re-mainder to slow death bv starvation' "This remnant of the Armenian people in Asia Jltnor," says the statement of these neutrals, "is a starving. beKStar people, consisting In the main of old men and women and children. The number of children, who. separated from their relatives, he along the caravan routes or wander about the towns like dous runs into tens of thousands. It, Is srarcelv credible that in the twentieth century the extermination of almost an entire people under such terrible cinumsian.es w.,s possible. Hut entirely trustworthy- evidence evi-dence of neutral consular officials, of German Ger-man and Swedish missionaries and teachers teach-ers is availahle. and puts the matter beyond be-yond all doubt."