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Show TURKISH BATH WEAPON . T Greeks "Parboiled" and Then Sent Out Into Cold. Charges of Frightful Atrocities by Turkish Officials Made by Doctor White. Charges that Turkish officials decimated dec-imated the Greek population along the Black sea coast, 1250,000 men, women wom-en and children living between Sinope and Ordou, without the shedding of blood but by "parboiling" the victims in Turkish baths and turning them half-clad out to die of pneumonia or other Ills In the snow of an Anatolian winter, are made in a letter from Dr. George E. White, representative of the American committee for relief In the near East. Sinope was the birthplace of the philosopher Diogenes, Doctor White recalls, re-calls, and Ordou is Just beyond Cape J3on, which is still preserved In memory mem-ory of the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece. The letter, written to Prof. J. P. Xeuides. secretary of the Greek relief committee here, described the new-method new-method of ridding the land of Its inhabitants in-habitants which, it is said, was somewhat some-what different from that employed by fhe Turks against the Armenians. The worst of the crimes laid to the Turks, according to Doctor White, were committed In the winters of 1U1G an.l 1917, when orders were Issued for the deportation of the Greeks along the Black sea coast. The people, he wrote, w-ere crowded into the steam rooms of the baths in Chorum undei the pretense pre-tense of "sanitary regulations," and after being tortured for hours were turned out of doors into snow almost knee-deep, and without lodging or food. Their garments, which had been taken from them for fumigation, were lost, ruined or stolen. Most of the victims, ill-clad and shivering, contracted con-tracted tuberculosis and other pulmonary pul-monary diseases and "died in swarms" on the way to exile, the letter declared. de-clared. Doctor White said that In the province prov-ince of Bafra, where there were more than 29,000 village Greeks, now less than 13,000 survive and every Greek settlement has been burned. The number num-ber of orphans. Including some Armenian Armen-ian and Turkish children, In the entire en-tire district, it was said, aggregated (30.000. Since the armistice, the doctor doc-tor wrote, ninny of the deportees have been returning to their ruined homes. |