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THE FARMER: JAjSTTARY 2, 1917
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AfAM ELM & MIDDLE ST&
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Eye Witness, Returned from Syria and Arabia Tells of People
Burrowing iri River Banks and Fighting for Offal Bod
ies Piled in Huge Mounds on Trail ' Over Which They
Have Been Driven. !
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HITH
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EJOTGTIOPJ
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' The American Committee for Ar
menian and Syrian Relief with head
quartars at 70 Fifth avenue, NeW
York; has just received a most re
markable statement from an eye wit
ness of the suffering of the Armen
ian refugees exiled, to northern Syria
and Arabia. The writer of this state
ment is neither an American nor a
native of Turkey,, but belongs to a
neutral country He has traveled ex
tensively through the regions along
the Euphrates tftiver and into the in
ferior of the country. , In this report
he graphically; depicts what he saw
4nd ' experienced in the different
places visited.""'
:;jDr. James I Barton', Chairman of
the American Relief Committee states
that "this report is in ' some respects
the most heart breaking of all the
&ad messages hitherto received by the
Committee." He also declares that
while the name . of. the. writer . of. th,e
report is known Xo him, for - obvious
reasons , his identity cannot .-be reveal
ed at present, i- "There is, however,"
.said Dr. - Bartcjn, : "no question as to
the reliability of the report, and the
accuracy of the statements -contained
therein.", ! This report is as follows :
"I ' was permitted to visit the Ar
menian .encampments; all along the.
Euphrates, Meskene and Der-i-Zor
jjfhd ' tot give sari account of the state
w;mcn tne crepeirecr Armenians are'
und in those localities, their pres-
t condition and if possible ythe-ap-
oximate number of these unfortun-
e exiles. . ' J : '
The above mentioned mission is the
bject 'of the present report. I takei
e liberty to. send; yo this . asking J
u at the same time to take into
nsideration my . conclusions . in the
kter . part of the report, which con
tusions, if followed,'; can alas, in a
.i small.; way, only lighten the - suffer-
iiigs which a' -race on the ; pointv , of
' disappearing is end uring , daily.
-tIt la impossible to give an account
".'of the impression ofhorror which my
journey across; the Armenian ... en
' cfmpments scattered'all along the
Euphrates has given me. especially
t those on the right bank between (Mes-
kene and Der-i-Zor. These can hard
1 , ly be called encampments; because
, of, the fact thai he majority of these
y- Unfortunate people, brutally, dragged
; out of their native land, . torn from
- their homes and 'families, robbed of
their effects upon' "their departure or
', kn route, are penned . up . in the open
: like cattle without shelter," almost no
: clpthing and1 irregularly fed with food'
altogether insufficient: : Exposed to
.'all the' inclemencies,; of the weather;
In summer , to the torrid sun of the
desert, in winter to 'the rain and cold;
enfeebled , already f by 1 privations' and
nlpng marches, thebad treatment, the
! most severe tortures ,and the daily
$angs of death," the less feeble have
aruoceded in digging holes for jtheni-
selves on thet banks of the river.f '.
j if. Those rare Individuals who ' have
1 -succeeded in saving' from the flood
"'some clothing, -.some cloth. for tents
and ' a , little ' money to procure some
fjjour, if they can find lit, are', to be
counted as lucky . persons-. ;AIso 'for--f
A ttrnate 'are those who can find ' water-
1 4 melons from the' - peasants" of the
'.. neighborhood or some sick goats from
jthe nomads at ";the price of gold. Ev
erywhere you see emaciated and wan
';. faces, wandering ' skeletons v lurking
; ( for . all kinds of diseases and victims
;t inoreover to hunger. - ;i
The management which ' has been
entrusted, to transport ' these ' people
' through the ; desert , has no intention
. r1 of' feeding them., Even it-appears to
'be a governmental, principle1 to allow
,them to die of 'hunger. , An organized
v .' piassaore, even in ; the , times when lib
.erty, equality and fraternity were not
' proclaimed by the Constitution would
. ' have, been more humane. , i It . would ,
1 lit least have spared these miserable
fieople the ; horrors of , hunger . and
1 death in small -doses in the worst tor
; tur.es, in refined methods of torments
', . worthy . of Mongolians. But a mas
sacre would have 'been less Constitu
tional! ! ! ! ! Civilization 7 is safe.;
, ) 'The remainder ' ofc the Armenian
nation . disseVnlnated on the .' border of
the Euphrates is' composed of aged
k 'people arid of women and children,
j .The middle aged' and young men, twho
... have 'not. yet been' massacred, are
'"scattered on the, roads of the Empire
, where they break, stones ire"'t5' on 4
of torture; and then begin new forc
ed marches without bread and water,
under the blows of -the horsewhip,
new sufferings, bad treatment, wor
thy . of slave dealers of Soudan and
there are victims all along the road
of 'this abominable calvary.
Those, who have some money left
are incessantly; exploited -y their
guards under threats of sending them
further on,, and when these resources
are exhausted they put these threats
into execution.
What I have seen and heard sur
passes all Imagination. - Speaking of
a thousand and one horrors is very
little in this case. I thought I was
passing through a part of hell. The
few events, which I will relate, taken
here and there 1 hastily, give but a
weak idea of the lamentable and hor
rifying tableau. The same' scenes are
found in the different localities
through, which . I have passed. Every
where it is the same governmental
barbarism whic,h aims at the system
atic annihilation through starvation
of J. the survivors of the Armenian na
tion in Turkey, everywhere the same
bestial, inhumanity on the part of
these executioners and the same tor
tures undergone by these victims all
along the Euphrates from Meskene
to Der-i-Zor. ... ; i
Meskene,' through its geograhpical
position- on the border between Syria
and , Mesopotamia, is the natural
point of , concentration of the deport
ed Armenians coming from the vilay
ets of Anatolia and sent afterwards
all along'the Euphrates. They arrive
there by the thousands, but the ma
jority leave there their bones. The
impression which this immense and
dismal plain of Meskene leaves Is sad
and pitiable. This information was
obtained on the spot and' permit me
to state, that nearly 60,000 Armenians
are buried there, carried off by hun
ger, . by privations of all sorts, by in
testinal diseases and resultant ty
phus. As far as the eye can reach
mounds are seen containing 200 or
300 corpses buried in the ground pell
mell,' women, children and old 'people
belonging to different v families,
'At present, nearly 4,500 Armenians
are, kept between the town of Mes
kene and the VEuphrates. ' These are
but living , phantoms. Their superin
tendents distribute to them sparingly
and very irregularly a piece of bread,
sometimes tnree or lour, days pass
when these famished people have ab
solutely nothing. .
A dreadful '' dysentery claims nu
merous v victims among, them, espec
ially; among the chftaren. These lat
ter fall , ravenously upon all that
comes under their hands, . they .eat
herbs, earth , and . even 1 their excre-
ments..- ;, ; .. ' . t . '
v Ij-saw Vuhder a tent ' of five -or six
square meters about 450 - orphans
pell mell ' in dirt , and vermin, . These
poor children receive .150 grams of
thread per day. However at .times.
and this is more often the cas, they
remain two days without eatlngnyr
thing. Also death makes among
them v cruel r ravages. ; frhis tent was
sheltering? 450 victims while I. was
passing through. Eight days after
wards, during my return, intestinal
diseases - had carried .off seventeen of
them. ' ' : - ;' ; '
Ahpu Herrera is' a small , locality
north of Meskene on the bank of the
Euhprates. . It is the worst part .of
the, desert. On a small hill 200 me
ters from the rlvei; are confined 24Qh
Armenians under the surveillance of
two gendarmes without Vpity, who
leave them to- die of hunger In the
most atrocious sufferings. The scenes
which I rj witnessed surpass all hor
rors. ' Near . the place where the car
riage ' stops,, women who i had not seen
me arriving, were: searching in the
dung of horses; barley sejbds, not yet
digested, to feed on. I gave them
some bread. They threw themselves
on it . like dogs dying of hunger, took
n voraciously into .their mouths with
mccups ana. eptieptlcal tremblines:
instantly informed by .one of the 240
persons, or rather hungry- wolves.
i uominy io eat zor seven
aays, rushed to me from the hill, ex
tenaing tneir -emaciated arms, . im
ploring ' with tears and cries a piece
of bread. They were mostly women
and children, but there were about a
dozen old people. ; i
' On my return I . hronThf
thm
fpr the needs of . the 'ariny and are oc-i bread and was during three quarters
cupiea in woras ror me state. tor an nour the pitying but unfortun
f The . young girls, often very young itely powerless spectator of a rana
Ones, have become the booiy Ci. jfcious fight for a piece of bread anoh
I as savage, ramished , beasts would ex
hibit. ' ' ' ,
: JULUssuimans. .rney nave Deen cap-s
tjired all along ithe road of emigra
tion, ' occasionally violated .and sold,
. ' i not killed by", the gendarmes who
conduct the sad : caravans. Many have
' ' heen thrown into the harems or Into
' the domesticity, of their executioners.
2 As on the: gatp of "Hell" of Dante,
ijhe following should be written at the
v ; entrance of these accursed encamp
' rf ments. "You' Vho enter, leave all
hopes." Mounted gendarmes ymake
the rounds , with orders to arrest and
flog fugitives. ; The roads are Swell
guarded! And what roads! They, lead
tp the desert, where death is as sure
; ets under the bastinade of the guards
of the Ottoman convict gangs. ,1 have
Aiet in the desert at 'different places
v tax of these fugitives dying, -abandon-ed
by-the gendarmes and surrounded
k by hungry dogsi waiting for their last
hiccups of agony, . to Jump on and
feast upon them. 1 ,
!?.In fact, all along the road, from
Meskene . to Der-i-Zor you come up
: . on graves containing the remains of
unfortunate Armenians, abandoned
and dead after atrocious sufferings.
It. is .by the hundreds that these
r mounds are numbered -v where rest
anonymously in their last sleep these
exiles, these victims of barbarity
j: without qualifications.
. i Prevented on" one hand, from .going
away from the' encampments to find
. means-jof subsistence,. , the . deported
Armenians- cannot on the oher hand
v exercise their faculty so natural to
men, and especially to the Armenian
race, to adapt themselves to misf or-
tune and to apply their ingenuity to
.; diminish the amount of their hard-
... Ships. ' ; .. ( ..'..'.'
Somes helter could be constructed
such as autdr shed of earth. If
at least, they "had'homes. to remain
where they are; they could attempt
' some farming. SEven. this hope is de
nied them. They wait any moment
Mamman is a small village where
are kept 1(600 Armenians. Every day
me Bame scene or, hunger and-hor
rors. The men are taken as work
men, roadmen1 and diggers. Thev r
ceive as wages a piece of bread which
cannot be digested and which is in
sufficient to give them the force riec
essary -for their exhausting work. .
; in this place I; met some families
wno still have 'money and who man
age , to live without so much misery,
but the majority lie oh the bare
ground, without shelter, and ' feed on
watermelons. The most . unfortunate
of '-them .'satisfying "themselves with
gnawing 'the ' skins' , thrown ', away by
the others. The mortality is very
mgn especially among the children.
Rekka is a fairly important town,
situated on the left bank of the Eu
phrates. Here 5,000 to p.000 Armen.
ians, mostly women and children, are
distributed in the different quarters
or the town, and live in groups of
from 50 to 60 n houses which the
kindness of the governor has pro
cured for the poorest." m Merit must
be recognized vwherever" it is found,
and that which would have been the
strict duty In normal times of an Ot
toman official toward Ottoman sub
jects, can be counted, as generosity
and even heroism in the present cir
cumstances, i
Although the Armenians of Rekka
are treated ' better than at other
places, their; misery is terrible. Flour
is very irregularly distributed to them
by the authorities and in insufficient
quantities. Every day you see wo
men and children In front of the bak
eries begging for some flour and ask
ing charity in the streets by the hun
dreds from the inhabitants. Always
there is the horrible pang of hunger.
When one realizes that among these
lamisnea common people tnere are
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cial positions, it is easy to imagine
the tortures, especially mental, Which
these ' unfortunate people undergo.
Yesterday they were rich and envied,
today they are begging like the most
miserable for a vile piece of bread.
On the right border of the'. Euphrates,
opposite Rekka, are found nearly 1,
000 famished Armenians, living un
der tents and-, guarded by soldiers.
They suffer more than anywhere else
parts of the country, doubtless to fill
the gaps made by deaths in other en
campments. And how many of them
will arrive at their destination!
Zierrat is north of Rekka. Nearly
1800 Armenians are encamped there.
They suffer more than anyweher else
of hunger, because Zierrat is alto
gether desert. Groups of men and
children are seen wandering about on
the border of the river, looking for
herbs to relieve . their hunger. Others
fall dead from exhaustion under the
unpitying eyes of their guards whose
chief, a barbarous person in the full
sense of the word, forbids anybody to
pass the limits of the encampment,
without' special authorization, under
penalty of bastinade.
Sebga is a small village where a
group of 250 to ,300 Armenians live
as miserably and as famished as in
other places.
Der-i-Zor is the headquarters of
the independent governorship (mute
sarifate) of the same name. Some
months ago, 30,600 Armenians were
installed In encampments on the out
skirts of the city under the protection
of the Governor, AliSouad Bey. Al
though I do not want to make per
sonal remarks, I would not like to
pass without comment, the name of
this man with a heart for whom the
exiles were thankful and who tried
to alleviate their misfortunes. A cer-
gun a small commerce and were feel
ing happy, to remain there. This
proves very well that if reasons of
State had demanded let us suppose
the deportation in mass of Armen
ians to prevent problems arising from
the Armenian question at . least the
authorities , could have acted hu
manely and also in the interest of the
Ottoman Empire; in transporting the
Armenians into cities where they
could find "commerce or use their pro
fessions; or they could have removed
to. lands that could be cultivated, as
the necessity of labor is felt so keenly
at the present moment. But, if it
was intended to suppress the race in
order o eliminate at the same time
the Armenian question, the aim would
doubtless not have been attained.
Again the comparative favor (?)
that the Armenians were enjoying, at
Der-i-Zor was denounced and report
ed to higher authorities. The guilty
Ali Souad Bey, was transferred to
Bagdad and replaced by Zekki Bey,
notorious for inhuman acts and bar
barism. They have related to me ap
palling things about this new Mute
sarif (governor) at Der-i-Zor. The
prison tortures, bastinade and hang
ings were at one time the daily bread
of this small town. The girls were
violated and given to the neighbor
ing Arabs for their pleasure or do
mestic use, the children drowned in
the river; neither weakness nor inno
cence was spared.
The distinguished Ali Souad Bey
had gathered about one thousand or
phans in a large house and was look
ing after their subsistence at the ex
pense of the town. His successor
threw them out of the house. The
majority of them died in the streets
like dogs, of hunger, of all sorts of
privations and from assaults.
EXPERTS
TO
who were at Der-i-Zor were cruelly
dispersed along theChabour, flowing
into the Euphrates; that is, to the
most desert like region of the coun
try, where it is absolutely impossible
for them to find their subsistence.
According' to Information, obtained by
me ( at Der-i-Zr, a great number of
these are already dead and the rest
will .soon follow them. ' ,
Conclusion: I believe' there are
some ' 15,000 .Armenians scattered
about all along the Euphrates be
tween Meskene and Der-i-Zor, pass
ing through Rekka. As I have al
readyJ said, these unfortunate people,
abandoned, ill-treated by the authori
ties,, put in an Impossible position to
provide for their food, are gradually I
dviner of ' starvation. . Winter is an- r EXPERTS,
CALLED
TESTIFY IN
'S
SMALL
TRIAL
Wife . Alive , When : Husband
Lefti is Contention of ;
the Defense. V.' " ....
proachinjf: cold and dampness will
add their victims to that of famine.
They can always find something to
eat altriough very dear, if they have
the money to pay for it. Doubtless
there are many obstacles to sending
money, of . which the principal is the
ill will of the authorities; but one
could , nevertheless; 'through indirect
ways, succeed in transmitting to them
pecuniary assistance which might . be
divided among the various encamp
ments for an equitable and sufficient
distribution of flour.
. If these funds, are not sent, .these
unfortunate people are doomed; if,
on the contrary, the funds are fairly
substantial, it is believed that' many
among them I can survive until peace
is concluded which will decide their
fate."
to be obliged to change their Pbf persona who hava orfunfrA feSgjj, 'pw- tain number of them had even he- Furthermore,, the 30,000 Armenians day.
DIES OF BURNS.
Hartford, Jan. , 2. Miss Annie Fitch,
about 50 years of . age, died at the
Hartford hospital today of burns re
ceived f rgm her kitchen stove Mon-
Ossipee, N. H., Jan. 2 Expert tes
timony that Mrs. Florence A. Small
had eaten , meat, and vegetables an
hour before, her death was upple,
mented today toy the statement of
witnesses that' Frederick L. Small, on
trial for her murder, and his wife gen
erally held their heartiest meal at
noon. This supplemental testimony
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was given uy irs. jLdiia m. J.' crnii a-uu.
Edwin C. Conner, who were recalled
to the witness stand and is regarded
by the prosecution as significant be
cause 6f its bearing , on the time of
the woman's , death. ' Small left his
home for Boston about 3 p. mi,' on
Sept. 28, the . day of the murder. He
has stated since that they had a light
luncheon of canned shrimp just;be
fore he left. .- -
Counsel for the defense, it is-, un-.
derstood,.will contend that the. finding
of the food in the stomach of the vic
tim indicates that, she was alive after
her husband departed and . had an
Small had boarded the train.'' , ;
'Both Mrs. ' Ferrin 'and Conner- tes- '
tifipd that Mr. and. ' Mrs Small had '
tdG them at various times that they
ate their principal nieaf at noon.r x.t
Dr. EL W. Hodsdbn, who was re
called, testified . that , from , the direc- "
tion of the bullet wound in the, head, -
Mrs. v Small was In a reclining: position -when
the shot was. fired. The person...
who fired it evidntly was, standing,,
above her, he said. . v -
Sheriff Arthur "Vf. Chandler identl
fled a number c-f articles .found in .
Small's satchel, ': There", were two let
ters, written in .,1908 4 and,.. 190$ and T
signed "Laura," but the ' court Would
not permit them to be read.' Attend 4y
tion had been called 'previously to the
fact that Small's ' second ' wife was
Laura" Paterson Small from whom hef
obtained a divorce after he had been
awarded damages in a s'ult against A.
H. Soden, formerly a Boston basebafi o '
magnate, for alleged alienation of af!
fections. ',"..",";."'. :
Sheriff . Chartdler produced a spark- .'
plug found in the cel'ar of the- SmaH
cottage. He, Idehtlfled an a'titomatlc
revolver taken, from the ruins.' f - . r
Witnesses had testified that-this, re
volver was similar: to one' owned by "
Small. It(.was of .32-callbre and as&
calibre bullet wa i-, found . in' . Mrs. '
Small's head. The sheriff, also tidenti-,
fled a number of fine wires picked up . I
riear the spark-plugj v v - : ; ft ."? rf.
HANGS SEUE1 TOi BED POST. W
Bristol, Conn., -Jan. ' 2l-si-J 6hh A; 3 Mo '''
lin, 55, committed suicide at his boitird-'' '
lng house during the night" by stra'n'
gulation with a cord attached to "his
bed post. The body yas ; found 'todayc
Poor health is believed to havheen.":.
opportunity to eat another meal be , the cause.? He leaVfS, k ; sMer 'iSoiiNew.f.' '
fore her death which, in those; cir-1 Britain 'and - in; Ufltlff' ift'' WfctWbtto.!'.-.-.
cu instances, must have occurred after was said," f ' i:'
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