Show T Turkey Proceeded t to Attend Attend- to jo t the Armenians t. t BY Wu WILLIAM mot How HOWARD RD TAFT 1 L Now why the need of money for the Armenians if you You o S S know t their i sto story y Abdul AbdulHamid Hamid w was s th the S Sultan of f Tur Tur- rUl key H He Hv v was the v s sweet et ser ed individual who o in 1896 deliberately directed edthe the k killing 11 of Armenians Who are the Armenians ni They are one of the he old oldest st v Christian people in iI the worl They They lived live in a province ro inc that lies north of pf Mesopotamia east of Asia Minor west of pf Persia an and south of the Black sea It lb t. t i is a province pro province proVince pro pro- vince of mountains and valleys valleys not not only rich but fertile Armenians lived in that c country cultivating cultivating cul cuI- t v the tIie vall valleys ys and m made de them blossom as s therose the therose rose The Turks Turks' hated them be because ause they were Christians Christians Christ Christ- ians ian's hated them b because ca se they were industrious u gaud aI aud I enjoyed the prosperity t that at c cOmes from m industry Later when Turkey entered the great European war war as the ally of Germany she invited German officers into into in in- to her army anny 1 Her r army was shortly by German officers who directed that army to togo go into int Armenia and d deport port Armen Armenians ans which they hey did escaped The Theother other 1200 OO were driven by y t that at army to the desert of Mesopotamia ia and Syria and in l th drive the arm army deliberately killed men men women and ch children I l Half of the them were deported in A Asia ia a and d half to Mesopotamia Out of those thoS deported ported nearly died of starvation Then Germany turned th the Caucasus over to Turkey Turkey proceeded etl t to attend atten to the h that Armenians Armenians Armenians in that 0 t ki kindly and nd fath fatherly rIv away vay way I That i is the story A friend mine of o who w was s on on the tle border b of f P Persia told me me that he had bad gone to toa a a German n officer and said H For For Gods God's sake cant can't you tou stop the butchery of f fth these th se men women aud children and the German officer office clicked his heels together and s said Stand ld back the time for mercy has passed This is the story of that unfortunate p The Syrians Gree Greeks s and Jews in Western Asia have suffered suffered suffered ered the same kind of barbaric treatment The Arm Armenians em ans an's and Syrians Heli has been orga organized ize for fox ot some gomo o years to care fort e e r A e e. 1 distressed e r p peel pee peo o fl l It zt has lax rec y a ai rd d d roo me most st efficiently expended more I re than t Each cent that you give will for go for act actual al relief Fe Feeble ble helpless sta starving ving millions cry ry for f food I urge yo you to give generously or ox your your bounty i C i i r tf i r JIe 1 tt w 1 f i |