Show GERMANS RIVAL TURKS IN CRUELTY armenian reports them more merciless in persecuting educated of his race NOTHING M SACRED TO THEM they have less respect than turks for religious and racial customs of their victims asa weft than dantes inferno bombay the following statement given to the lie associated press by a british officer now in a hospital here presents a vivid picture of the sufferings undergone by the armenians Armen ians of which comparatively ly little firsthand first hand information hns hitherto been forthcoming 10 before I 1 got my wound in the fight ing up tip beyond bagdad I 1 came into contact on several occasions with a highly educated armenian who had es ca from the turks ant and was being employed by us its ns as on an interpreter the stories lie he told of the ho ties inflicted indicted upon ills his compatriots were so BO appalling that I 1 made notes of ills his conversations and lieve love attempted temp teAl hero beret to reproduce them in somo something thing alk his own language so BO that you can get tit at the lienart of tile the man and realize what ho he and nil all educated armenians Armen ians feel the interpreter was in constantinople until the end of last year when lie he was sent to the frunt brunt wati a party of armenians Armen ians several of whom escaped ped worse than dantes inferno the interpreters story follows what you have road rend and heard conrd about armenia Is not a hundredth part of the hc truth dantes inferno was a heaven comp compared tired with tho the hell that tile turks have made of my country something of the awful reality of the last twelve months I 1 have auvo myself seen in passing through on the way to the front at aleppo there are arc four factories in which under tinder the supervision of deported Armenla nf two IbO thousand usand armenian women are bring being empl employed under terrible conditions the women ore are all deportees one of them sold said to me on a halt half during our debor I 1 fattens I 1 saw a gendarme bury a sick nick wo nin alive cold blooded murders were an everyday occurrence our guards had ahders to kill on ho pot apat antono iho logged lagged it a pace iaco behind on tile the journey often several Kev crol I killed tit nt once an mid chete cheru wits wn s no sep sell grove for thein the bodies were just tl irown into a 11 ditch together imd covered it was till nil horrible to behold hut but our eyes eventually became hardened to tho ilia sight bab and zor aro are three places never to bo be forgotten by us Armen armenians ians 1 I havo have visited thern do you know what happened there a few months since lly ity tho the order of abi governor allf aalf nearly ono ill indred hundred thousand of my brothers were murdered illas massacred sacred by armed circus sinus at basanti I 1 saw BIT aln BI al N T railway trucks of little armenian children being dispatched to tin an unknown destination what lind hall these little innocents dono done to offend was it the mere inere fact of being alive and alid being sons song and daughters of our thrice unhappy race worse than the turks the german soldiers that alint one scon around amna tho ilia stations in fit armenia tire gener nily of a low type nod not fur far behind the turks in their disregard for or tho the rights of our people their cruelly Is n little different from that of the turks but tho ilia difference la Is only ono one of kind tito tho turk for example often respects certain things which i wo we have learned to associate with our religious or racial beliefs the german tins hns no respect for anything nothing Is too sacred for his profane giandi the turk frequently u used sed to show some and deference to tile the upper class armenians Armen ians tho the educated people regarding them as perhaps capable of being useful even in 0 turkish dominion tho the german as soon ns as lie he arrived here pointed out the educated armenian as the most dangerous of nil all and instigated tho ilia turks into organizing a ruthless per elution of tile tho intellectual classes 01 of armenians Armen ians one day any they surrounded tho the odices of tho ilia conservative newspaper Asad amard arrested nil fill the staff tind and deported them I 1 L know not whither will they ever ret urril who knows one day I 1 walked from a pine av where here thousands of innocent women girls giris mid children were bivouacked bivouac ked suffering buffering nameless miseries I 1 walked away because I 1 could not bear tiny more to gazo gaze upon them arid and I 1 came to a hill 1111 where I 1 saw a little child I 1 ws was in turkish uniform tito tho child camo came near mo ilia and erl crad d in turkish s give me ino for gods goda sake a piece of bread I 1 F for or five lays I 1 have enten eaten nothing but till this ile ho pointed to some melon skin shin that hud been left lying by the road I 1 answered him in armenian and the poor boy jumped into my arms saying art thou arnic arme glnn ile ho remained there for a minute uttering no other worl word flat I 1 felt warm tears falling failing down on my cheek check tito tho waters of the euphrates the sands of lio lie deserts of mesopotamia are arc the groves graves of the armenian nation I 1 can no longer weep my tears have frozen la my eyes |