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Show ij Robbery, Exploitation and j Massacre the Policy Stu pendous Wickedness. NONE ARE SPARED All Peoples Not of Turkish ; Blood Treated With Savage Brutality, y CAIRO. Egypt, Friday, July 20. i (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) The situation in Palestine j this summer Is the most serious since ,j the war began. A scheme for the loot- ing of Jerusalem is already being exe-' cuted and throughout the countryside ""flP" tne Turk nas embarked on a calculated -n policy of plundering and killing the na- g. ; tive inhabitants, so that if they are , forced to vacate the country thoy will . leave behind them a desert, ,Thc only lQ j ;v thing that can save them, the only ly ' hope that buoys them up is that the Ik ', British armies novt hammering at the gates of the Holy Land may soon drive 10 j out the Turks. The following statement, of the pres- j ent situation is given to The Assoclat- ed Press by an official in touch with J conditions, o- : Massacre Their Policy. 1K ' "The attitude of the Young Turks toward the unfortunately non-Turkish 1C I races within their empire has always of ' been harsh and oppressive. During r ? I the war it has been an opn campaign .. of robbery, exploitation and massacre, 1 ; for the Young Turks, realizing that of . ' j.he partition of the lands under their '6 l'ule Js unavoidably, have determined , to get as much as they can out of the inhabitants while thoy are in posses- ag sion. or'; "The stupendous wickedness of the extermination of the, American nation a cannot be dismissed as a mere device he of oriental statecraft or as a particular measure aimed at one particular race, h M . , for it is the Turkish policy towards 'gf- uot only Americans, but Arabs, Greeks ;s. wm and Jews, in fact all peoples who are as M subjects of the Turk but aro not them- ttc im 1 selves of Turkish blood. -9 i Turks Know They Are Doomed. jM'! "While there was some prospect of. it-! being able to remain or even enlarge a' A their empire tho Turks did not ac- ri,, tually seek to des'troy their subject races. Today, knowing themselves to jS be doomed, It is their calculated policy erM . to kill off the bulk of the inhabitants rj 3 of Palestine and extort the last ounce '9 monev and goods from them, so IC" JB y are orcet t vacate the as country they will leave behind them -j a desert, a poverty-stricken and do- ' jfl ( populated land. ' -sH Germany Shares In Guilt, tb- ' "Their policy is not consistent with ul. sm ! military or economic needs and is not m .( supported by even the slenderest pre- , :M i texts of its necessity. It is directed by 3 ' a savaSe brutality. Tho modern Young M Turk of the committee of union and v m Z'f'Ogress is an infinitely worse tyrant ff&j lan Predecessors and all his na- S wv tive savagery andi blood lust now find ( vcnt m deliberate and organized N l . crimes. Germany has exercised no re- 1 V 1 straining Influence and indeed shares largely In tho Ottoman guilt. ' Palestine is today somewhat cut off from tho world and news of the dreadful dread-ful happenings within its borders reaches civilization slowly. "The disaster that befell the Armenian Armen-ian nation is now being meted out to the mixed non-Turkish population of Syria and Palestine. Families aro being be-ing massacred, towns and territories evacuated, communities plundered and given over to pillage. "The town of Gaza was recently ordered or-dered evacuated. In pursuance of the order the inhabitants were forced to set out upon their journey with nothing- but the clothes they vore. All their belongings were left In their homes and these were immediately delivered de-livered over to tho Turkish troops for loot. To Loot Jerusalem. "Gaza having been pillaged and the soldiers not yet being satisfied, it was proposed to carry out the same pro-Gram pro-Gram at Jerusalem The head notables not-ables however, protested that, having seen the exhibition at Gaza, they preferred pre-ferred to chance the risks of war to enduring the certain agony of a forced I evacuation. This answer and protest j displeased the Pasha so much that he promptly had the deputation transport-I transport-I ed to Anatolia and is taking special measures to see that his s'cheme for looting Jerusalem is not hindered by tho inhabitants. "Tho system of oppression in Palestine Pales-tine i thorough but ft is also stupid and wasteful. Cavalry horses are allowed al-lowed to graze on such of the scanty young crops as the wretched inhabitants inhabi-tants have been able to grow, so that there will be no grain this year in a country which is already well nigh bare of corn.' |