Germany, Turkey, and Armenia: A Selection of Documentary Evidence Relating to the Armenian Atrocities from German and other SourcesAnonymous
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Germany, Turkey, and Armenia: A Selection of Documentary Evidence Relating to the Armenian Atrocities from German and other Sources
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Armenian question; World War, 1914-1918 -- Armenia
Dört Yöl has also been evacuated and the inhabitants sent into
Arabia. Hadjin is threatened with the same fate. There has been a
partial clearing out of Adana; Tarsus and Mersina are threatened too,
and also Aintab.
8. Information regarding Events in Armenia, published in the
"Sonnenaufgang" (Organ of the "German League for the Promotion of
Christian Charitable Work in the East"), October, 1915; and in the
"Allgemeine Missions-Zeitschrift," November, 1915.
This testimony is especially significant because it comes from a
German source, and because the German Censor made a strenuous attempt
to suppress it.
The same issue of the "Sonnenaufgang" contains the following editorial
note:--
"In our preceding issue we published an account by one of our sisters
(Schwester Möhring) of her experiences on a journey, but we have to
abstain from giving to the public the new details that are reaching
us in abundance. It costs us much to do so, as our friends will
understand; but the political situation of our country demands it."
In the case of the "Allgemeine Missions-Zeitschrift," the Censor
was not content with putting pressure on the editor. On the 10th
November, he forbade the reproduction of the present article in the
German press, and did his best to confiscate the whole current issue
of the magazine. Copies of both publications, however, found their
way across the frontier.
Both the incriminating articles are drawn from common sources, but
the extracts they make from them do not entirely coincide, so that,
by putting them together, a fuller version of these sources can
be compiled.
In the text printed below, the unbracketed paragraphs are those
which appear both in the "Sonnenaufgang" and in the "Allgemeine
Missions-Zeitschrift"; while paragraphs included in angular brackets
[< >] appear only in the "Sonnenaufgang," and those in square brackets
([ ]) only in the "Allgemeine Missions-Zeitschrift."
Between the 10th and the 30th May, 1,200 of the most prominent
Armenians and other Christians, without distinction of confession,
were arrested in the Vilayets of Diyarbekir and Mamouret-ul-Aziz.
<It is said that they were to be taken to Mosul, but nothing more
has been heard of them.>
[On the 30th May, 674 of them were embarked on thirteen Tigris barges,
under the pretext that they were to be taken to Mosul. The Vali's
aide-de-camp, assisted by fifty gendarmes, was in charge of the
convoy. Half the gendarmes started off on the barges, while the other
half rode along the bank. A short time after the start the Armenians
were stripped of all their money (about £6,000 Turkish) and then
of their clothes; after that they were thrown into the river. The
gendarmes on the bank were ordered to let none escape. The clothes
of these victims were sold in the market of Diyarbekir.]
<About the same time 700 young Armenian men were conscribed, and were
then sent to build the Karabaghtché-Habashi road. There is no news
of these 700 men either.
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