Show Children Are Buried Burie Br ried Alive Women Stripped of Clothing Turks Carry Away You Young Girls By Dr Fred P P. P Haggard I Secretary American Commission for A Armenian and Syrian Relief Copyright 1917 by r Enterprise Association I 1 1 ROM the outbreak ak of ot war the l F-l W Turkish government backed by br I j their ir German masters have lla been at the bloody work of or exterminating ex exterminating x ex- terminating the tho Armenians Syrians and Greeks until today the story of or atrocities dt deportations and sufferings passes b belief lIe t In preceding pre articles I have ha briefly reviewed the principal acts of ot the tho Turks Turks the tho forcible conscription of Ar- Ar Armenians Ar Ar- Syrians and Gret Greeks ks Into the Turkish army as an excuse for tor taking them In droves into tho the mountains and deserts and deliberately slaughtering them the tho deportation of ot their families lies at the point of ot the bayonet In which 1 old men women and children were driven n into the wilderness for slaught slaught- slaught-I slaught er tile the enslavement or ot the young young- girls in Turkish harems the death and torture torture torture tor tor- ture Inflicted on hundreds of ot thousands and the tho starvation of ot the remainder Three millions of Armenians and Syrians Syrians Sy Sy- rians have suffered death or are homeless home homo homeless less and starving thousands of ot Greeks deported from the sea sel coasts are In Inda da danger banger of ot starvation of ot those In need are orphans little children scarcely able to fed ted themselves live IIvo absolutely absolutely absolutely ab ab- alone in deserted homes children under 12 years e ars of ot age ago are starving in S Syria and Lebanon alone alono I and In this district sufferers rs were dying dyIng dy dy- ing at the rate of ot 1000 a da day recently MILITARY NECESSITY Using military necessity as an nn ex excuse ex- ex cuse case the Turkish government go has done Its worst worst worst-to to wipe from the earth th thenon the non non- non Moslem population Some atrocities because of ot their revolting re revolting revolting re- re character dIameter It Is impossible evento even evento evento to touch upon upon they they are litera-II litera literally un- un un un- printable But as examples I give Inclosing inclosing In Inclosing closing closing- a few fow cases cues of ot what these people people peo peo- people I have o been through through and and what they are likely to go 0 through so long tong as Turkey Turkey Tur Tur- ke key Is permitted to have domination of ot this territory A faint taint conception of the tho terrible hunger experienced by thousands of ot th the th s deported Armenians may be gained from Crom an nn Incident told b by a n. returned American consul who said that In hi hl his dally daily walk alk from his house hous to the consulate consulate con con- he counted as many ny as twelve bodies of or persons persona who had died of ot st starvation starvation star star- r- r vallon the previous night five Fifty per cent of ot the population of or Lebanon banon are arc reported dead from rein starvation UNBEARABLE STORIES There ThEro is In America a II young Armenian Armen Armen- ian an n who escaped scap the Turks and made his way to this count country lIe He tells almost unbelievable I stories s of Turkish atrocities in Harpoot Is 17 years old the son eon of an Armenian professor lie lies J I escaped ed from Turkey crossed the mountains Into the Russian Caucasus crossed Asia Aela and landed In Seattle last summer The Turks crucified a professor protessor in the American college says lAtter After two months of or these Ings Ins the Turkish government ordered all Armenians to be deported to tho Syrian Syrian Sy Sy- rian and Arabian deserts and in July 1915 Armenians the most prominent prominent prominent nent m men n In our city with their wives and families were driven out Into tho the deserts cut tho the long hair of ot their daughters so they would not appear attractive at- at to the Turks I saw Raw my mother cut the long blond hair of ot my sister but they could not tal take e out her beautiful beautiful beau beau- eyes YM SAVE CARTRIDGES We e were driven to Malatia There one midnight the Turks took Armenian Ar Ar- men to the nearby mountains and killed them with axes and knives One of ot th the th Turkish soldiers laughed and told mo me they did not use guns uns beI be because be- be cause cartridges gt's cost 4 cents cent each ooch I That same samo night an officer took my sister away Over 2500 women and children children chil chil- dren and girls were dealt with that night Their money mony goods and clothes were tal taken en Our Armenian women could not bear to live without clothes and throw threW themselves ts Into the river I 1 found foun my ray way through the tho Caucasus Cau Cau- casus to the Russian A h army u There I r u A h I found Armenians who had escaped ped were starving star and could cout not find a blade of ot grass 8 to eat cat They burled buried Armenian children alive aUve In Turkey There are many facts to prove ro e that the tho unspeakable Turk has surpassed under Prussian tutelage even his own historic fiendishness The story of ot this war contains contain nomore no nomore i more terrible chapter chapter history history will never nev nev- never er 1 record cord more concentrated brutish brutish- nev-j nev ness |