Show TURKISH BATH WEAPON greeks parboiled and then sent out into cold charges of frightful atrocities by turkish officials made by doctor white charges mat turkish dec minnied the greek population along the black sea coast men worn en and children living between sd mordou without the shedding of lood but by parboiling par boiling the victims lu turkish baths and turning them halt clod out to die of pneumonia or other ills in the enow of an anatolian winter are made in a letter from dr george II 11 white representative of the american committee for relief in the near east was the birthplace of the philosopher diogenes doctor white re alls and mordou la just beyond cipe jison which Is still preserved in memory of the argonauts and the cholden flocco the letter written to prof J I 1 secretary of the greek relief committee here described the new method of ridding the land of its in habitants which it Is sald was somewhat different from that employed by the turks against the armenians Armen ians the worst of the crimes laid ta the turks according to doctor were committed in the winters of 1916 and 1917 when orde f were issued for the deportation oi the greeks along alie black sea coast the people he wrote were crowded into the steam rooms of the baths in chorum under the pretense of sanitary regulations and after being tortured tor hours were turned out of doors into snow almost knee deep and without lodging or food their garments which had been taken from them tor fumigation were lost ruined or stolen most of the victims clad and shivering contracted tuberculosis ard other put diseases and died tn swarms on the way to exile the letter declared doctor alte that in the province of infra where there were more than village greeks now less than survive and cery greek settlement has been burned the nuin ber of orphans including some lan and sh children n the en tire district it was said aggregated since the armistice the doc tor wrote uny u ny of the deportees hnz been returning to their ruined homes |