New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1917, Page 5

HORRIBLE GRIME BY TURK SOLDIERS Murdered Mothers, Then Buried Their Live Babies in Trenches New York, Oct. 18.—Burial aiive of babies in trenches with the bodies of their mothers, who had been slaugh- tered or allowed to perish from expos- ure, was practiced by the Turks in their work of exterminating the Ar- menians, it was declared here by the Rev. Henry H. Riggs, missionary of the American Board of Commission- ers for Foreign Misslons to Harput, Turkey, who recently came back to this country. A trench was dug be- side a camp of Armenian women, he said, and as they met death the sur- vivors were forced to drag their bodies to it and bury them. ““The gendarmes said they could not take care of the babies that were left behind so many of those were buried with their mothers.” Dr. Riggs sald. “When I visited this camp I frequen ltching Scalp TroubleTwoYears Mrs. Dolan’s daughter suf- fered dreadfully. At firstsmal blisters. Broke and scale formed. Scalp sore and red. Could not sleep at nightor rest in the day. Used remedies without success. Cuticura Soap and Ointment complete- ly healed in two months. From signed statement of Mrs. ‘W. F. Dolan, 3 Hazel Place, Everett, Mass,, July 14, 1916. If Cuticura did no more than soothe and heal eczemas, rashes, itchings and burnings, bringing speedy comfort to tortured, disfigured men, women and children it would be entitled to the highest praise. But it does more. By using the Soap_exclusively for toilet purposes, allowing no other soap to touch your skin, you will in many cases Yrevent these distressing experiences. t is always a pleasure, not an effort, to use them, they are so pure. For Free les by Return Mail, address Pcvsbcard “‘Cuticura, Dept. R, Boston.” Sold by druggists and dealers throughout the world. |1y saw Turks wandeting about among the Armenians picking out pretty girls and little children to take away to their homes. Some mothers told us that they had themselves thrown their babies into the Euphrates river rather than allow them to be taken to Mos- lem homes. Many more threw them- selves into the river to escape a bond- age of shame worse than death. ‘“About fifteen miles from Harput is a lake hidden from sight with many ravines about it. We were told that the Armenian exiles were being killed and left in these ravines. Two Amer- icans investigated and brought back photographs and actual facts. They saw in a 20 mile ride 10,000 human bodies, most of them killed by the bay- onet. With a few exceptions they were women and children and the mangled condition of their bodies showed the horrible fate that has been theirs.” The story of the deportation of the Armenians of Harput is one of ‘‘per- fidy, violence and murder,” Dr. Riggs went on, adding, “It is nearer to the truth to say the Turkish government undertook the extinction of the Ar- menian population.” After the issue of an edict for all Armenians to go to Mesopotamia, he said, there came the arrest of all the men of standing. Tied Together and Sent. “They were sent out on the road tied together in groups of two to five,” he said, “driven and beaten by the gendarmes. Of the first party of 800, one young man survived to tell the story of what happened. The par- ty was taken into a ravine and or- dered to sit down, he told me. Then the gendarmes climbed up on the surrounding rocks and fired with their rifles into the crowd of bound prison-’ ers as long as they showed of life. “The man who told me the story succeeded in getting his knife and cutting himself loose. As he made his dash for liberty he was followed by a volley of shots but got away un- scathed. All the other men of that and similar parties were ruthlessly butchered. “The women and children were then started on the road toward Me- sopotamia in companies of two or three thousand. By indirect routes they were forced to wander about un- til the summer heat and disease wast- ed away the majority. No transpor- tation was provided. I saw one old man, who had traveled start out on the remaining 250 miles carrying on his back his pack of quilts and clothes and on top of that his aged, palsied wife, who could not walk. “Often the routes chosen took the people over waterless deserts where thousands perished from thirst. I passed through such a region where thouands of bleached skeletons each side the way told the story of a wa- terless journey across the plains in August. “The people who passed through Harput from the north usually spent two or three days in camp within sight of my home. The sights we saw ) there can never be forgotten. They were absolutely without shelter, signs 200 miles | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1917. day or night, from heat or cold. The air was unspeakably foul from dead bodies lying near. As we approached the women and children came around us like hungry wolves, all restraint lost in the one desire for a piece of bread. “The sick and dying lay around under the blazing sun with no one to care for them, waiting for the end. One place I saw a row of twelve dead women and children who had been lying in the shade of trees. With them was one little baby still alive. The shade had shifted and the burn- ing August sun had fallen on them and killed them. A long trench was dug beside the field where these people were encamped. The people themselves were obliged to dig and fill it. As soon as one died she was dragged to the trench.” In January, 1916, Dr. Riggs said, there were 485,000. deported Ar- menjans in Mesopotamia, while in May 1917, the most careful investi- gation showed only 112,000 survivors, more than three-quarters having per- ished from famine, pestilence and massacre in fifteen months. “The only bright feature of this terrible picture is the help that has actually reached a fraction of people through relief funds from America's ever ready generosity,” Dr, Riggs said. “In Harput we were ablo to give dally rations of bread to nearly 5,000 widows and orphans. If more money had come there were ' 20,000 within reach equally in need. Upon the rupture of diplomatic rela- tions, the Turkish government con- fiscated our food supplies and many of these people perished of hunger. American Generosity, Since then, however, Dr. Rheumatic Aches Drive them out with Sloan’s Liniment, the quick-acting, soothing liniment that penetrates without rubbing relieves the pain.. So much cleaner than mussy plasters or ointments; it dounotlhm the skin or clog Always have a bottle house for the achos and ins of rheumatism, gout, lum- fi: ufnms. sprains, stiff joints all muscle soreness. G-uvnlmu bottles at all druggists; 25¢., 50c. $1.00. the:o | Riggs continued, arrangemenss mnave heen made to continue the relief work through neutral agents who are dis- bursing the funds and supplies gath- ered through the American Commit- tee for Armenian and Syrian Relie? in New York city. The question of saving the remnant of the Armanian race, he said, can be solved only by American generosity. “The Armenian men are dead,” he said, “and the women have been crushed and cannot long survive the terrible experiences through which they have passed. But there are 400,000 orphan children, most of whom are begging their bread to- day. The hope of the future is in gathering together these remnants and saving them for the seed of the future Armenian race. These chil- dren look to us today. If they :7#n be fed and housed and educated for the next ten years they can coisti- tute the leading progressive element in the life of a new Turkey as their fathers did in the old."” HE'S NO DESERTER. He Took Couple Days Get Married. New York, Oct. 20.—Thinking of the girl he left behind him resulted in a charge of desertion from the army being registered against Harald Ham- mond, twenty-two, of No. 5646 Hudson street, Manhattan, private in the 18th Cavalry, stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, West Burlington, Vt. Harold declares he never thought of anything half sa serious—he merely wanted get married. ‘While in camp the memory of Miss Elizabeth Burke of Na. 252 West 12th street, weeping as he left her, was so strong that Harold forgot all about getting a leave of absence. He just walked out of Fort Ethan Allen and caught a train for New York. ‘That happened last Friday. Mondayv he married Elizabeth and haney- mooned around the city with her until arrested yesterday. Detective Donohue made the arrest, which caused Mrs. Harold to weep Simply o copiously. Harold said I~ army and had intended to reiu..: fore ten days expired. BUTTERFLY-CATCHING. The Hague, Netherlands, -—Butterfly-catching has Sept. bheen con- | verted from a schoolboy's amusement into a serious business at So'ingun and Dusseldorf, in western Germany. 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