Show ARMENIAN atrocities now that germany la Is specially interested in turkish affairs the condition of the armenian christians should command the attention of the government and people of the great fatherland from recent reports it appears that the persecution continues the national armenian relief association of which the hon david brewer of the supreme court is president sends public opinion a translation of the article published in germany by the rev hans fischer herr fischer says before the great massacres the chrle chri tian population managed to keep enough to bo live on now all is changed the peasant must actually starve to death A farmer can find no market the christian artisan finds no work only this summer during my stay in armenian territory armenian villages were attacked and the christian inhabitants slaughtered the village in which I 1 passed the last night was on the following night leveled to the ground women who fled to our relief station were this summer maltreat ed in the most cruel manner priests 0 of f the gregorian church were thrust inz in to large beehives only this summer gummier I 1 have seen hanging in great flaps from a tree the skin of an armenian village priest which had been stripped from his living body because he would not dei christ |