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Show KINS BIG MARRIED By TURKS WHOLESALE BUTCHERY OF A HELPLESS PEOPLE CHARGED BY VISITOR TO AMERICA. Declares That Armenians Are at the Mercy of Turks and Tartars, Who Murder Men and Carry off Women to Slavery. New York. Upon his arrival here. Mi ni 11 Sevalsy, representative in the United States of the Armenian national nation-al delegation, asserted that "the betrayal be-trayal of Armenia constitutes the most cowardly act in the annals of history." "The condition in Armenia continues to be precarious." he said. "The Armenians Ar-menians are still at the mercy of the Turks and Tartars without any effective effec-tive protection from the allied powers, dering the Mediterranean, where there are French and British troops. Turkey Is taking advantage of the present rivalry of the powers as she lias' been doing for the last one hundred hun-dred years, to give the finishing touch to her policy of Armenian Christian extermination. Fngland does not want to act, by reason, it seems, of her In-, dian policy. "There are already in this country representatives of the Armenian republic re-public of the trans-Caucasus, and the plenipotentiary of the Armenian national na-tional delegation of Paris, who have come to state their case to the government govern-ment of the United States and to congress. con-gress. Let their presence among us become a symbol of arousing the public pub-lic to a truer sense of its duties toward this deserving nation which has a claim upon American, and which the latter truly acknowledges. "I would like to add lone word. There are about two hundred thousand Armenian Ar-menian girls and women sequestered by the Turks and other barbarians, and not a single Turk has as yet been hanged for the wholesale butcheries of these innocent and defenseless Armenians, Armen-ians, whereas German officers are being be-ing haled before military tribunals in France for having violated the laws of war." |
