TURKISH MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS.
LAID TO KAISER'S ORJ?E^. .., <<a 2_ 6 . Sul tan of Turkey, instigated by the Kaiser, ordered the massacre- of the Armenian race,", said Rev. M G' Papazian pf Fresno, a, former mission^ ary m Turkey, m an address to the' ban Francisco. Bar Association. - Papazian, who was m Turkey two years ago, and who said, that he saw' the massacre of 100,000 Armenians, said that there could be no' peace m the world until the complete destruction of the Turkish Government. "The. "-Srti ° f i i th r° x yeavs a £°'" ho sai <^ wa s the blackest page of all history." Papazian told how men and women were murdered; girls and women led' into slavery m. Turkish harems; young men made to serve as beasts, and*hundreds of thousands of persons driven m exile into the deserts to starve. "The lurks knew how to kill and slaughter, he said, "but Teutonic kultur gave tliem a, new weapon— -deportation." Armenia asks from America,'' he _t tllat tlieir race be given the ♦l g * i ruling themselves on the soil that has been theirs for more than 2500 years." . .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14848, 27 February 1919, Page 5
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190TURKISH MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14848, 27 February 1919, Page 5
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