Show AM A N 8 RIVAL TU I 1 1 H bruf TV Ari armenian ponlan reports report them more I 1 in i ilip E edt his pace dace WWW RUING WRED WO TO TOE TO M they havo have less lesa re respect than T arks for Rel Rell lolous alous pd and racial customs of their victims worse than dantes Infer rt oi bollay the fo following Howing statement riven given to the associated press py ly a british officer now in a hospital here presents a vivid picture of mhd th suffer lugs ings undergone by the Ar Aimen tans of which comparatively little firsthand first hand info information haslitt lias has lilt hitherto herto been beeh forth foith coming i before I 1 got my wound in the lighting up beyond bagdad I 1 came into con tact on several occasions with a high ly educated armenian who nho had es the turks and was being employed by us as ap an interpreter the is lie he told of 04 the inhumanities inflicted upon fas 1 ils compatriots compatriot Q were so eo appalling that I 1 mado notes of his conversations and have attempted here to reproduce them in something like hla his own language so that you can get atthe heart of the man end and realize what ho he and all educated armenians Armen ians feel the interpreter was in constantinople until the end of last year when lie he was sent to the front with a harfy of armenians Armen ians several of whom escaped worse than dantes inferno the interpreters story follows what you have read and lien hea rd about armenia Is not a hu hundredth part of the truth dantes inferno was a heaven compared with the hell that the turks have made maae of my country something of tho the awful reality of the last twelve months I 1 have myself seen eon ln in passing flir through ough on the wily way to the front at aleppo there are four factories in which under the supervision of deported armenians Armen ians two thousand armenian women are being employed under terrible conditions the women are all deportees one of them said to me on a halt during our doper lations I 1 sw saw a gendarme bury asich womac oman alive cold blooded murders were an everyday occurrence our guards had orders to kill on the spot anyone who lagged a pace behind on the journey often several nere killed at once and there was no separate grave for them th the bodies were just thrown into a ditch together and covered it was all horrible to behold but our eyes eventually became liard hardened ened to the sight bab and zor are three places never to be forgotten b by us armenians Armen ians I 1 have visited them do you know what happened there a few months since by the ohp order of the 0 governor o arnor afif nearly one hundred 1 Jio lious usand and of my brothers were nu murdered r massacred by armed carcas at I 1 six railway trucks of little armenian children being dispatched to an unknown destination what had these little litile innocents done to offend was it the mere fact of being alive and being sons song and daughters of our thrice unhappy race worse than the turks ahe the german aerman soldiers that one sees around th the e in armenia are generally of a I 1 low ow type and not far behind the turks in their disregard for the rights of our people their cruelty I 1 Is a little different from that flint of the turks but the dl difference ference Is only one theof of often respects certa iii things which we have hava learned to associate with our religious or racial beliefs the german has no respect for anything nothing Is too sacred for his profane hands the turk frequently used to show some respect and deference to the upper class armenians Armen ians the educated educator people regarding them as perhaps perlin ps capable of being useful even in a turkish dominion the german as soon as ashe he arrived here pointed out oui the educated armenian as the most dangerous of all and instigated the turks into organizing a ruthless persecution se of the intellectual classes oj of ain paeans one day they surrounded the offices of the conservative newspaper Asad amard arrested all the staff and deported them I 1 know not whither will they ever return 1 who knows one de day I 1 walked from a place where thousands thou sands of innocent k women girls and childr children en were bivouacked bivouac ked nameless miseries mi serles I 1 walked away because eca useI I 1 could not bear any more to gaze upon them and I 1 came to a bill hlll where I 1 saw sa w a little child I 1 was in turkish uniform the child came hearme near me and cried in turkish give me for gods sake a piece ol of bread I 1 for five days d dy I 1 s have eaten nothing but this he pointed to som melon skin that had bad been left lying by the road I 1 answered him in ar al and the poor bor boy jumped amy my arms saying sayings art thou aime alioe antan he remained there for a minute uttering no other word but I 1 fell tears falling down on my cheek t af cr A al it u a jula vl |