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THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES were now part of the tribx, and when
SURVIVORS IN BAGHDAD.
TERRIBLE STORIES.
[BY EYE-WITNESS.].
THE LOST PROVINCES.
ALSACE-LORRAINE, MUST BE RESTORED TO FRANCE. .:
they cried out These men are of our own people, the Anizeh took them in. | WHY They worked for the Bedouins, feeding. the camels, gathering fuel, loading and unloading packi, The tribe were moving south and after a month they reached. Hillah, where ne name of the Turk is, hated,
!
A SOLE SURVIVOR.
almost dusk and he hid in the brushwood: by a miracle he escaped and found his way to Baghdait.
crnors.
A CHILD'S STORY. The first girl I saw was a child of ten from village near Erzerum:
She and her family had started on donkeys -with a few of their belongings, but in three days the Kurds had left them nothing and they had to work. The Turks had issued a proclamation in all the villages that the Armenians were to be sent away to a colony that was being
a town. CEYLON prepared for them, and that their pro
perty was to be kept under the war and
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and married him. quietly, without any public notifiention. as inflexibly again as by the wish of the guillotine, she was expelled from all intercourse with the people she had abandoned,
ab
The offices were all
time he drilled his men, he bought him big cannon, he stored up his ammuni tion, and it took the most powerful Eme pire in the world three years to beat two little Republies with less population {BY T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P.) ·
than two of our great towns. Similarly the Alsatian Lorrainer held his pence, One of the best things that is being
A few Sundays ago I stood before the and thought his own thoughts in the statue of Strasbourg in the. Place de Insecvery of his heart; within the closed doors done in Baghdad is the salvage of
Concorde, and there I realised the dream of his home. If ever there were a glowing Armonian women and children who have
Que man I hoard of was the sole of 47 years; the dream that some day or example of what heights and depths pas. survived the massacres and who are now
survivor of a group of refugees who dis-other it might be given to me to do some, sive resistance can reneh it was given living in Mussalman families.
These appeared between Has-el-Ain and Nisibin. thing for the liberation of Alance by these two provinces. are being gathered into homes financed They were taken into the desert and fort Lurraine from the yoke of Germany. Neither in public nor in private would. by the British Government and their öd up in fine, as in n Chinese execution, own community are looking after them, to be despatched with the sword. There Nebet, with a poignancy that has either the Alsatian or the Lorrainer ren - visited one of these institutions yester was on shortage of ammunition. I was never relaxed, the feeling of horror and cognise even the existence of the hated day. The inmates were all young, manny
almost of despair the moment when this ruler. If the Germans gave a concert told, but the word was employed for of marriageable age, and a great number; reason, of economy. While waiting for
crime was committed against the funda no Alsatian on Lorrainer was there. If of children under six who have already his turn it occurred to the Armenian that
inental right of every population to the Germans frequented a park në Also- forgotten their language. The bald state- a bullet would be an easier form of death choose its own government and its awadian or Lorrainer was there. No Ger- ment of what they have, suffered and so he broke from the line. In the confi country. If at that time Engloral had man was admitted to an Alsatian or seen is a damaging and unanswerablesion the gendues missed him. It was been under the domination of Lorraine home. If any one of the no- arraignant against the Turkish govern.
German riffiesicus I cannot but believe pulation accepted any office or other from eyen now that we should have made a the German, quietly, without any publi- ment. It is quite possible that many of
protest against such a viulation of u ention of the fact, and yeb, inflexibly as the details that I have gathered may be inacurate; but collectively they are
The main features of the acres are fundamental law of liberty and untionel the swish of the guillotine, It was ex- navires the methods rasployed much the same. The emigrants, if they right; but we minte no protest, and nelled from all association with the Franer resented and justly resented for | people he was held to have deserted and by the Turk. It is hard to sweep aside are not killed on the road, are taken to the vivid story of a child of twelve; and
sope depot where they are kept a few a generation afterwards our abandon- | betrayed. Nay, it was carried to this Noon-Auction of Valuable Leasehold Pro
the evidence is supported by Armenians days. Here they find a large canup of womens of her in this hour of her impotence length that if a young girl yielded to of three thousand or more and the ention and despair. We committed the crime of porty from the Liquidsior of Meers
in other parts of Turkey in Asin, by
ang, becomes a difficult question. Soon Wittke & Co., at Bales Roomt, by Mescaped Indian prisoners from Ras-bl Geo. P. Lammert
Ain, and by such documents as the nice comes from Constantinople that the deserting, Alsace Lorraine once: We must refugees of a certain district have been private diary of a Jew which 1 quoted allotted land for cultivation and they are in an earlier letter.
fuld they must start on their journey
I have been so haunted by this recol again. This, they know, is probably the death sentence, but they nourish a thin loction of the tragedy of these two last
GREATEST BOYCOTT IN HISTORY. hope Others, they argue, have survived. provinces that I have twice visited them;
The boycott, in fact, was carried to There have been instances of humane gov. and everything I saw and heard only
There was one at Deir ez-Zer, confirmed tenfold my old anguish and such a length that even in the big apart- though he was afterwards removed, not my old convictions." When any of the men't honses, where the different flais were occupied by Germans or Alsatians being, an Armenian explained to me, “people realised that as an Irishman and
For the first an ardent friend they could trust me, or Lorrainers, the two passed each other specialist for massnere," half day they are generalf safe, as mar they told me cautiously the maintenance In without a word, without even & bow. der on A large scale is deprecated near
of their love of France, of their hatred What a terrific example of the silent, în- But it flexible, ruthless, impregnable revolt of Nobudy, for instance, saw any of their rulers and oppressors. ane killed in Trebizond; bat a few days was not ül! I read a book by Miss Bethum à nation against an oppressor. No such after the Armenians had left the city Edwards,Hearts of Alsace," and still stern boycott exists in history. then restorud. This was more than a
their bodies came floating down the river.
inore it was not ill. I had made the
And be it remembered that everything year ago. The gendivines were very The desert is a non-conductor. What is
cquainture of M. Paul Helmer, that I was done to break it down. The army pleasant to them in their homes, and done there leaves only" vague rumour, realised all the nobility, all the magniWOR everywhere, and told them that they were to be given nothing definite enough to shock, politificents, all the splendid tenacity of the Zabern-to sabre any manifestation of
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now land to cultivate and that theireians in the west. The tribesmen.
Kurds journey would not be long. The first and others, are called in if possible, as struggle in both provinces for the main the silent revolt, BATAVIA, AMORIGAN, CONTINUINAS, assurance, as they guessed, was visionary: that gives the Turk the pretext of a tenance of their French nationality 1 open to the Alsatian or the Lorrainer
1D HOUTH Apathi PosTI.
in the second the gendarmes dil not lie. Fregrettable affair.” The Kurd and the muke bold to say that there is no more that proved recreant. Terror tried its For many of them it was all over en Arab, he explains, are a very uncivilised herole struggle for liberty in the whole worst; bribery tried its best, all in rain. THE
HK Homeward Hall Steamer, marrying the third day. Two or three hundred people, have not yet been educated up history of the world. And yet it is one Every expedient, refired or brutal, was His Majesty's Malls, will be despatched of the men were separated from the The progress jr of his pro- of the tragedies of Alsace that there is attempted to tear up the obstinate French from this port as igual, taking Pamongers women and killed at a distance, shot or gramme engraver on the heart of the no story so little known.
nationality from its very roots. In the and Cargo for the bore Pork Prevengers cut down with the sword. After that Young Turk.
school the child had compulsorily to learn ccommodation in the connecting veszel secured the same sort of thing happened nearly
the language of the conqueror; he was before departure from Hongkong
Meanwhile the unhappy Armenians every day. The guards were very bap-.
sent when he came of military age for Silk and Valuablen and Tes and Cargo for bizard. There with system. Some of never know when their turn will come.
three years to the German barrack to be Italy, France and Lordon (under arrangement) the women were pushed into the river; The gendarmes have no system in eliming-pulsory silence of Alsace. Gambetta, in
trained to také arms against the country others thrust over precipices
tion; one never heats,
yot the French language not only sur- hundred left two villages near Erzeroum despatch and the miserable affair may
he loved for the country he hated. And
is the separation of the men and women. four hundre only reached Ras-el-Ain.drug on for days. Generally the first act
vived, but even grew stronger
M. Paul Helmer told me this story of The survivors were all women and child. ren; there was not a man among them. If the women eling to the sun it is their
our lip. The brutality of the scurfe
the Alsatian resistance last week several own affair.
times byer. or a male child over the age of nine.
If ever the history of a The ay be left to the imagination. The girl thought that it was the gender-kindly old Tark himself weeps tears when
national struggle or a national tempera- mes policy to time them out, to make he himrs of it. The refugees, though un
ment were written on the face of any thon walk over stones, and in keep themarmed, sometimes turn on their guard,
man, these things were to be rend in the AL distance. from water. This may, than once the assassins have paid
face of M. Heimer. He is just over 40 have been imagination. It was very dis desarly. There is a woman, in Baghdad
years of age. but his hair is white. There tressing, she said, to be at the end of whe was one of a band of two or three
is a strange, almost Quaker tranquillity in the incr; the light blue eyes speak of the procession; for then we had to pass hundred Arminian women from the hills the corpses of one's friends and drink who held a pass near Uraf Their men
gentleness; there is a suggestion in all of water from canals where their dead had been trincherously killed off earlier,
butter suffering, of hope deferred, of bodies were floating She saw a holo and they knew that obedience to the
Pro
incessaħt and painful conflict against in the earth in which a number had been clamation of exile was as fatal as resist head insisted on keeping the memory of burnt In Basel-Ainu Syrian fanilyance. They held the pass with their rifles lust provinces alive, and yearly made overwhelming odels; but all this is necom. wook in the girl and her sister; the nearly a werk and the Turks had to bring their solemn pilgrimage and their elo-panied by the soft invincibility of mother had died. And so they wached up artillery. Some fifty of their escape.quent protest at the base of that statue which Carlyle wrate on the tomb of his Baghdad.
The woman who is now in Baghdad was of Strasburg, from which I spoke the wife. There were small children of four prese
rescued by a Turk of the better school, other day; hat they were regarded as im five in the home--hardly two from the who respected her honour and on the prudent and premature.
journey trented her ny his own daughter. same village. They had been with their Few Armenian women were as fortunate, ndoptive families a your or more and forgotten their own language.
Kindly the men.
Many were killed with as little scruple na Plainess or good looks were Turks had picked them up as one might
fatal in different ways. The old and ugly a small puppy or a small kitten and died by violence or starved; the young taken them in. This is the Ottoman
were taken into the families of the Turks. nature all over. These massacres at A traveller now in Baghdad was given very unpleasant business. The less
a letter by an official a Raw-el-Ain to] civilised elements of a heterogeneous deliver to the gendarme in charge on the arty are turned on to the dirty work road. Choose a pretty one for me," and he shute his eyes to it as much as he wrote, and leave her in the village possible. His social and domestic re outside the town. Some smeared their lations are always pleasant. An Armen faces with mud and coal to hide their at jan mistress enjoys the privileges of the traction. In many cases they arrived home; a
servant is well cared for; naked out of the desert save for a sick children, when adopted, are treated or a bit of matting. kindly.
Ras-el-Ain, the railway terminus, is too near the centre of things for massneres in GIRLS GIVEN TO THE ARAUS.
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The women and children Sue of the women and girls are are permitted to starve. I heard of two given to Arabs, who also treat them well, women who could not feed their babies 1 met n refugee from the Kain Hissar holding them under water until they died; District who, with six companions, had and of another who lulled her child to been saved by some Armenian women he sleep and eased its pain by lighting a found established in a Bedouin eamp.co
cow dung fire, There was nothing to Eight hundred families in all had left cook, but the fumes earried the smell and Kala Hissar. Half of these were cap-suggestion of cooking and a momentary sized and drowned in Sholture Arab peace. At Alleppo and Ras-el-Ain, Ger- boats) on the Euphrates. The survivors man officers stalked side by side with these when they reached Deir ez-zer wery Spectres of famine and murder and death, placed in an internment camp. They had and not a finger was raised or a word. been allowed to take money with them,
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There are two causes for this. The first of cause wits the compulsory silence France; the second, the still more com-
one of the last speeches of his life, gave
she should take up on the question: Y the word to France as to the true attitude, penaons toujours; n'en parlerons jamais; į Be it ever in our thoughts; never on It was a wise saying: for France required nearly half a century of steady prejuration before she could be in a position ever to face the successful and powerful bully that had thus torg her provinces from her bleeding side. It was the policy dieinted as it was thought by prudence which was followed by all the stecessors of Gambetta in the govern ment of France. A few ardent patriots the Tate M. Paul Deulede at their
On the other hand, silence was en-
pulsary on the Alsatians. Surrounded on all sides by German immigrants who had been brought into the country to replace those children of France who had left the country, they were surrounded by the ubiquitous German spy, and every im prudent word was calculated to land them in gaul,
A NODLE RESISTANCE,
A CATTLE FOR LIBERTY.
He is a resident of Colmartand an ad-* vocate by profession. The Bar has been in many oppressed countries the forum. on which the battles of liberty have been fought, O'Connell in Ireland, Gambetta in France, has each in his turn brought down tyrannies by the voice of the law- ver, this is the part M. Helmer has play ed in the life of Alsace.. It was he who appeared before the merciless tribunals of the Germans to plead the cause of the Now it is this silence on both sides of Abbé Wekerle, of Hansi, the caricaturist," the frontier that has hidden, the truth of every true Alsatian who had brought from the world. Something like a thick himself within the wide sweep of the Geinan system. And his speeches have veil has been spread between the lust provinces and the world. One might even been the appeals to the continuance of the struggle for freedom, and helped to say that the Alastian Lorrainers were forgotten by the world; and above all, I strengthen and perpetuate it. Two days some of them night imagineant they before the war he left Colmar; if he had were forgotten by France. It is this fact remained he would now, like so many that adds such splendour to the tenacity, of the other ardent patriots of his city the courage, and the nobility of their and country, be in a German prison. resistance. The people of these pro- Such, in epitome, is the case of Alsace vinces, especially the Alsatians have and of Lorraine. I can regard with no. something of the dour characteristics of thing but contempt any British democrat the Boer. The Boer never talked of the who would contemplate leaving this noblis resture he was prepared to give to people without the liberation for whicks. defend the liberties of his country till they have struggled so long. the fateful hour came; in the mean-
GERMAN CORPSE-FAT FACTORY.
THE ARMY ORDER.
A. H. Qu., den 12, 12 1916. Armee-Tages-Befehl vom 21. 12. 1916.
While her they approached the muti-MR. WILL THORNE'S RÉCEPTION Oberkommando 6. Armee. sarif, hoping to purchase their release. They offered him 3,000 liras.
It was ME
Thorne, M.P. who was
not enough. They made a second collec, received by the King at Buckingham
TRANSLATION OF THE GERMAN ARMY ORDER
GIVEN IN FACSIMILE ABOVE."
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tions every piastre they could raise was Palace, recently, told a Central News b)Einlieferung in die Kadaverwertungsantalten. thrown into the pool. This time the representative that his reception was Es besteht Veranlassung, wiederholt darauf auf- sum was nearly 5,000 liras and the muti, marked by an entire absence of formality..
zu machen, dal bei Einlieferung von merksam sarit accepted this bribe on condition During my conversation with the that they should sign a paper: "We King,
Kadavern in die Kadaververwertungsanstalten in " he said, we passed from the the Armenians of give this sum narrative of my experiences in Russia to
allen Fallen Ausweise mitzugeben sind, aus denen willingly to the Turkish Army.". But talk of labour matters at home, and
Truppenteil, Todestag, Krankheit und Angaben ubir it did not save them; the hated gondar during the half-hour's conversation we mes accompanied them on the march and had together I told his Majesty some
etwaige Seuchen zu ersehen sind nine miles from the city the massacre solid, homely truths, I discussed with THE GERMAN CORPSE UTILISATION SCANDAL, began Slicks and stones, knives and him some of the causes which underlic daggers were employed, and a few mergi, the industrial unrest in this country, and fal bullets. But, as always happened, referred to some of the things which I the assassins tired of their work, even think must come about if industrial the physical part of it was exhausting unrest is to be avoided in the future and the last act was postponed from day told his Majesty, plainly and frankly to day. In the end a tired gendarme what was the popular opinion of bigh gave them the hint to go: The night was food prices and the profiteering which dark and the guard more careless than is notoriously going on, and said that usual, and the last remnants of the Towя must be expected so long as the party, 55 in all, made their escape. They prices of foodstuffé remain uncontrolled fell in with a caravan of tribesmen the for the workpeople, and controlled in the next day, who stripped but fed them.
intercats of the traders The King, 1 On the third day they crossed the river thought, showed considerable knowledge and struck an encampment of the of many matters affecting the workers Anizch Bedouins, a tribe always hostilo generally, and his pointed references to to the Turk. It was here that they them showed that he understood keenly found the Armenian women, who bad and appreciatively some of the causes been with the Anizch for a full year. of unrest in the labour world. Certainly relics of an earlier persecution.
From
he bed no misgivings about my own point. this hour they were safe, The women view?
The above is a facsimile of the Germen Army Order dated December 21, 1916, issued by the Chief Command of the Sixth Army containing instructions as to consign. ment of Corpse Ltillsation Establishments. The transla tion isk CHIEF COMMAND OF VI. ARMY. A.B.Q. Dec. 21, 1916, Army Order of the Day for Des. 21, 1916.
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