IN THE MIDDLE EAST

North Otago Times, Volume CIII, Issue 13656, 25 August 1916, Page 3

IN THE MIDDLE EAST

SLAUGHTER OF ARMENIANS, • '■' SCATHING- INDICTMENT OE ; GERMAN CALLOUSNESS. •TEUTON PROFESSOR'S PROTEST'. (Australian and >!. Z. Cable Association.) ■ LONDON-," August-23. -. Professor....Gr.ae.tpr, and, Dr. Niepage, German teachers -of Armenian children at Aleppo; protested to" the German Foreign Office in October against tlie Turkish -fright l ! illness. - Gerinany ignored the.appeal and the teachers.resigned.. They. have.now. aullio,i , ised.,thc. publication of their letter. They' wrote: "How can we teach "from the Bible when women, boys and-girls, almost, naked, are dying in scores, in the neighbourhood; when two thousand Ijcallliy peasant women were driven'froiit'the highlands and all that, remains of them here are forty or--fifty skeleton!*. Guards ravish the beautiful, women and others die of hunger, thirst,, and Hoggings, Those lying helpless'close to" water are not allowed to llri'nk. .ire not allowed.to distribute food to Armenians, Over a hundred corpses are daily carried out of Aleppo, and all this is happening under the'eyes of' high' Turkish .officials; Fifty 'skeletons are now lying in the cijiirtyiml near the school. They are alive, but~al| are mad and no longer know how',to eat, • If, given bread, they push'it nwa ; y, groan : ing, awaiting the deliverance' of death. The natives say this is the. German. doctrine,"and onr prestige' in-th.e East is at slake, Even the Turks-..and.Arabs show 'disapproval when brutal Turkish soldiers-drive Armenians throtfgh the'' town, Hogging pregnant women, More frightful massacres must-;he -.expected, endangering Germany's'gqqd.name,!' . FIGHTING IN ARMENIA. RUSSIANS IN THE ASCENDENCY I (Australian and N.Z; Cable 'A-ssb'ciatidn.) LONDON, August 23, ' A Russian communique "saya: We drove back a Turkish offensive with the co-operation of the fleet.' Our offensive is developing westward of-Lake- Van. .-:,-- ' .GERMAN BRUTALITY. ' ARMENIANS AS.SLAVES. ("The Times" Service.) Received August 24, 11,10 p.m.'' LONDON;-August 24'. Twelve thousand Armenians are working in the Bozani tunnel in the Taurus mountains (in Mesopotamia) under German supervision. Forty were murdered, dismembered and mutilated at the end of June, Subsequently ; all the men were murdered- and -the -women and children sent into slavery. Turkish officials admit that! the Armenians were ordered" to move on, Their "emigration," which was an euphemistic term, being massacre., ' „• * , TURKISH CAUOASIAN IINITIATIVEi .' BELIEVED,TO,BE BROKEN. ... ("The Times" Service.) Received August 24,6,45 p,m, PETROGRAD, August' 24, It is officially believed that thirteen to -fifteen Turkish divisions are operating in the Erzingan. region, about, two corps are engaed at Lake Van on the Bitlis-Mush line, and four to six divisions are in Mesopotamia. ' Military experts are of opinion that- the Turkish' initiative on the Caucasus front and in Persia, is on the, verge of collapse. The Turkish objective of diverting the Russians'from Erzingan and Sivas-signally-failed, . '■-.■'■ -!