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NEW YORK. Oct. 10—The plan to
exterpate the Armenian Christiana
from Turkey as made ia Germany
and suggested to the Turks by the
German officials, and where the Ar
menians made a stand against their
Moslem oppressors it was German of
ficers and German cannon that broke
them up. according»io. the Rev—Al#
beus Nemell Andrus, senior mission
ary for the Congregational station al
Mardln, Mesopotamia, who told of hie
experiences here today. The far
sighted Germans, he said, were look
ing forward to the time when thej
expected to gain complete dominloc
over Turkey and they wanted to eli
minate the Armenian question by get
ting rid of the Armenian race.
“One of the ways the Turks wen
about It was to load Armenian met
on goatskin rafts on the understand
lng that they were to be deported—
and then they were taken out ant
dumped into the Tigris River ant
drowned," he said. “This was th/
fate of at least 2500 men from thi
vicinity of Diarbekir and its suburb
In Northern Mesopotamia.
"Armed soldiers were on the raft
which each carried about seventj
five to a hundred victims. Kuri
boatmen rowed them out into dee
water. Then the soldiers would driv
the Armenians to one side of the hi
rafts untii tney tilted and dumpe'
them into the river. If they tried t
climb hack on the rafts the soldier
and boatmen shot them until they a
perished.”
The Germans and Turkish goveri
ment, Dr. Andrus said, looked upo
the destructions of the Armenians i
Turkey as a cold blooded politics
move, and gave the actual executio
of it into the hands of the Kurds an
Turkish soldiers who went about ;
with the ferocity of Moslem religion
fanaticism.
“At first the Turkish governmer
objected to the Gorman suggestion c
the removal of the Armenians on the
grounds that they were valuable as
artisans and business men and nec
essary to the economic life of the
country," continued Dr. Andrus, "but
the Germans promised to supply men
to take their places. Having per
suaded the Turks, the Germans then
left it to them to put the plan into
effect,
“But the Turkish soldiers In some
places could not overcome the Arme
nians. At Urfa, the city of suffering,
the Armenians resolved to resist de
portation and defend their Innocent
families and their church. They bar
ricaded themselves in their atone
houses In their quarter. For ten
days they withstood all the efforts of
„the Turkish soldiery to dislodge them.
In the end they would have prevail
ed but that German officers brought
and trained cannon upon their strong
hold and forced them to flee.
"Surely such a people should not
be allowed to perish. There Bttll re
main of them to be cared for 6,300 in
Urfa and nearby. Will not the Ameri
can people help care for them? Con
ditions in Mesopotamia have not yet
; been brought to the public's atten
i tion for the reason that there has not
- been anyone to report the state ol
• things there and because no reporl
l could get past the rigid Turkish cen
l sorship.
> “More than 30,000 Armenians were
> deported from Diarbekir and its su
i burba. It was some of these whe
were dumped into the Tigris rlvei
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and drowned. The leading and rich
men were among these. The others
were detailed to dig trenches and to
do other work with only an insuffi
cient allowance of bread daily. Later
they were shot in groups, when no
longer able to endure the hardship®
imposed.
"There followed an epidemic of
cholera and then a scourge of Typh
as. Before the war and deportations
the city contained some 60,000 Inhab
itants. The last I heard there were
only 7,000 citizens left there.
"Women were clubbed, stabbed or
shot , down on the Mesopotamian
plains and left for dead in piles on
the ground or thrown Into old cis
terns. Some, coming to conscious
ness, craw4ed-out from the pMes -and
up from the cisterns and dragged
themselves up the mountain to our
hospital at Mardin to have their
wounds dressed.
"Some of the Moslems at Mardin
took pity upon more than a thousand
babies of deported women who. In
passing through, left those they had
no milk to feed nor strength to car
ry as they went on their lingering
deaths on the plains below. When
the local government officials learn
ed that the Moslems had the little
ones they issued orders that whoev
er harbored any Armenian would be
visited with the treatment dealt to
;the Armenians.
“The Moslems, therefore, secretly
1 turned the little ones over to Christ
' ian families who clandestinely cared
for them until their resources were
exhausted. And now the latest in
formation from Mardin is that unless
funds are Immediately forthcoming
the thousand orphans must be turned
out upon the street* to starve.
“Help most be regular and contin
uous. The Committee for Armenian
and Syrian Relief has decided that
a month per child will be necessary.
That Is about 17 cents a day. Who
will add one more child to his fam
ily and reckon the 17 cent* along
with what he is spending dally on his
other children and at the end of each
month send the $6 to the Committee.
Dr. Andrus himself narrowly escap
ed execution by th« hands of the
Turks because of his work at Mar
din In succoring the suffering. He
was ordered to be court martlaledl
which under the conditions, he said,
ment a "mock trial and the cutting oft
of the defendant's head." The Ar
menian Bmbassy however, heard of
the ordered and Interfered so that It
was rescinded and a decree of exile
lsued Instead.
Dr. Andrus, who was born tn New
York City and graduated from Wil
liams College In 1864 and Union Theo
logical Seminary in 1867, spent fifty
years In missionary work in Mardin.
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W TO SURE
PUCE
(By trailed Press)
LONDON. Oct 9. — Commenting on
the phrase In President Wilson's reply
to the pope's note. In which he said
that "no peace~^an rest securely upon
political or economic restrictions
meant to benefit some nations and
cripple or embarrass others upon yin
dioUve,action-of'any .sort, or any kfnd
or revenge or deliberate injury.” the
Economist says:
"In other words, the power which
must now be recognised as speaking
wtth the welghtelta voice In the coun
cils of the allies has brushed aside all
the futilities of the Paris Conference
and shown up the way to a peace
which shall not be Inaugurated by the
raising of trade barriers all over the
world, but by a real extension of free
trade and of co-operation between na
tions for the material welfare of man
kind. In view of the scarcity of food
and raw materials that will face us
when the war is over, any measure
that will imply restrictions on our im
ports of these essentials to industry
would be a blunder that might serious
ly handicap our industries.
"President Wilson's peace promises
us a world in which mankind may he
united Into one great throbbing hire
of industry, in which the beet work
era will win battles by turning out
the beet stuff, and the world's outper
and consumption of goods may be
quickened to an extent undreamed
of.'*
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In the district court at Fairbanks
recently Judge Bunnell sentenced two
Soldiers to eery* one year each la
(the penitentiary for robbing a native
on the Tanana after having assaulted
him.
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DI8FLAY OF NEW FALL MATS
A big assortment of new fall hats
has fust been received at Mrs. Kate
Rolfe's and will be sold at panicky
prices for two days only. Ntow is your
time to purchase new headgear at
prices that are right.
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Try a loar of "Sun Maid" Ralahj
Bread. It s really fine. City Bakery
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