ARMENIAN HORRORS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16317, 25 August 1916, Page 6

ARMENIAN HORRORS.

MASSACRE IN THE TAURUS. TWELVE THOUSAND VICTIMS. & GERMAN SUPERVISION. A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON, August 23. • There were 12,000 Armenians working on the Bozani Tunnel "in the Taurus Mountains in Asia Minor under German supervision. Forty were murdered, dismembered, and mutilated iat 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, which is a euphemistic term ■ for massacre.

PROTEST BY TWO GERMANS. IGNORED BY FOREIGN OFFICE LONDON, August 23. Two German teachers of Armenian children at Aleppo, . Professor Graeter and Dr. Niepage, sent a protest to the German Foreign T)ffice in October against Turkish , Rightfulness. Germany ignored their appeal, and the teachers resigned. They have now. authorised the publication of their protest. They wrote: " How can we teach from,.the Bible when women, boys and girls are almost naked, and dying by scores in the neighbourhood, when 2000 healthy peasant women are driven to the highlands? All that remains of them here are 40 or 50 skeletons. Guards ravish beautiful women, and other women die of hunger, thirst, and floggings, while those lying helpless close to water are not allowed to drink. "Europeans are not allowed to - distribute food to Armenians. Over 100 corpses are daily carried out of Aleppo. All. these happenings are under the eyes of high Turkish officials. Fifty skeletons are now ! lying in the courtyard near the school. They are alive, but all are in such a condition that they no , longer know how to eat. If they are given bread they push it away, groaning, awaiting the deliverance , of death. Natives say this is German doctrine, end our prestige in the East is at stake. Even Turks and Arabs show disapproval when brutal Turkish soldiers drive Armenians through the town, flogging pregnant women. More frightful massacres must be expected to endanger Germany's good name."