ARMENIAN MASSACRES.
RESPONSIBILITY OF GERMANS. i During my recent short stay in Constantinople I heard nothing but expressions of satisfaction at the departure of the German officers, who by their arrogance and meanness got themselves thoroughly disliked, wrote a correspondent from Salonika, under date December 3. With reference to the wholesale massacro of Armenians and the deportation and persecution of Greeks by the late Government, the consensus of opinion in Constantinople is that grave moral responsibility falls on the Germans. I was informed, indeed, that the German diplomatic representatives on several occasions protested ■fruitlessly at the Porte against these inhuman proceedings, but these protests were regarded ,as platonic and in.' tended for the gallery. The wretched Armenians were ruthlessly slaughtered, men, women and children alike. A more terrible history of suffering and coldblooded murder it would be difficult to , find anywhere.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17100, 4 March 1919, Page 9
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141ARMENIAN MASSACRES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17100, 4 March 1919, Page 9
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