CUMAM AJtC THE IN. ST1CATOIIS OP HOMI0W9 Mi...—ry TatU ot Ik* Killing Off ot Armmmmm Chn.tia.sa By Turk*. N«w York, Oct. S. —The plan ta •» tricate tha Amarican Christiana from Turkey «u "maaia in Germany ai d suggested to tha Turku by l.«rman officials," and where tha Armenians mailt a stand againat their Montcm op pressors It waa German officials and German rannun that broke them up, affording to tha He v. Alphaua Newell A minis, nan lor Missionary for tha Congregational station at Mardin. Ma- o|H>tamia, who told of hia eape rianroa here to lay. Tha far-sighted ward to tha tim» when thay expeclcd Gormans, ha sai-1, ware looking for to I'tiri complete dominion in Turkey, and they wanted to eliminate the Ar menian question by getting rid of the A. rtwtuan race. "One of the ways the Turk* went almut it waa o load Armenian men on goatskin raft* on the understanding thnt they were to he deported -and then they were taken out and dumped into the Tigris river and drowned." hi said. "This wan the fate of at leant 2,"i0tl men froin the vicinity of Diar bckir and its suburbs in northern Mos opotamia. "Armo l soldiers were on the raft*, which eat h carried about eventy-flva to a hundml victims. Kurd boatmen rowed them out into deen water Then tha soldiers woulddrive the Arme nians to one side of the rafts until they tilted and dumped them into the river. If they try to climb back on the raft* the soldiers and boatmen beat Lhern and shot them nntil all per ished." Aet a Political Move. The Germans and the Turish gov ernment, Dr. Andru* said, looked upon the destruction of the Armenian* in Turkey ax a cold-blooded political move, and gave the actual execution of it into the hands of the Kurds and Turkish soldiers, who went about it with tha feroicy of Moslem religious fanaticism "At first the Turkish government objected to tha German nuggestion of the removal of the Armenians on tha grounds that thay were valuablo as artisians and businasa men and neces sary to the economic life of the coun try," aantinuad Dr. Andnu, "bu. the Germane promised to supply men to take their places Having persuaded the Turka, the Germans then left it to them to put the plan into effect "But the Turkiah aoldier* in some places could not overcome the Arme nians. At Urfa, the city of suffering, the Armenians reaolved to resiat de portation and defended their innocent famlie* and their church. They bar ricated themselves in their stone housea in their quarter. For ten days they withstood all the efforts of the Turkiah aoldiary to dislodge them. In the end" they would have prevailed but that Grman officers brought ,ind trained cannon upon their stronghold and forced them to flee. Little Known of Borrow*. "Surely such a people should not be allowed to perish. There still remain of them to be cared for 6,300 in Urfa and nearby. Will not the American people help care for them? Condi tion* in Mesopotamia have not been brought much to the public's atten tion for the reason that there has not been anyone to report the state of things there and because no report could get past the rigid Turkish cen sorship. "More than 30,000 Armenians were deportd from Diarbekir and its sub urbs. It was some of these who were dumped into the Tigris and drowned. The leading and rich men were among these. The others were detailed to dig trenches and to do other work with only an innuflicient allowance of ' bread daily. Later they were shot in groups, when no longer able to endure the hardships imposed. "There followed an epidemic of cholera and then a scourge of ty phus. Before the war and deporta tions the city contained some <>0,070 inhabitants. The last I heard there were only 7,000 citisens left there. Women Clubbed or Shot * 4 Women were clubbed, stabbed or shot down on the Mesopotamian , tains and left dead in piles on th* ground or thrown into old cisterns. Some, coming to consciousness, crawled out from the piles and up from Iho cis terns and dragged themselves up the mountain to our hospitals at Mardin to have their wounds dressed. "Some of the Moslems at Mardin took pity upon more than a thousand babies of deported women, who in tasting thru, left those they had no milk to feed nor stiength to carry as they went on to their lingering deaths on the plains below. When the local government officials learned tfiat Mos lems had the little ones they issued an order that whoever harbored any Armenian would ha visited with tha ITMMWI Mt to Um .Armenian*. Pat la rirtaWta'i Cm. *Tka Moalema, iharafara, secretly turr.wl the littla onaa avar to Chrtetian familie*, who clandestinely carad for thaoi an til their raaourraa wara •* hauated. And now tha latoat informa tion from Hardin la that unleaa fund* ■ ara immediately forthcomnig tha : thousand* «f orphan• must ba lurried | >>ut upun tha atraat* to atarve. "Help muat ba ragular ami rontin unua. Tha rommittaa for Armenian and Syrian Kelief hia derided that five dollar* a month per child will ba 1 oretnary. That li about seventeen rent* a day. Who will add one more | i-hild to his family ami reckon tha ■eventeen rente atonic with what he is upending daily on hia other chil dren and at the end of natch month -end the live derau*a of hia work at Mardin in succoring tho* su.Tering. He wan ordered to ba court mnrtialod, which under the condition-*, he aid, meant a "muck trial and thn cutting off of the lefcnilant's head". The American Kmba y, however, hoard of the order and inlerferre I no thnt it waa re rinM find a decree of exile issued inwtemi. Dr. Andrus. who wan born in New York City and j-rndimtei! from Wil liam College in iii'll and Union Theo logical .-'eminary in IHrt", apent fifty yearn in missionary work at Mardin. TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SUPPLIES FOR SOLDIERS. Railroads Delivering Daily 2, 500 Carload* of Food and Other Neceaaitie* at Army Camp* in Country. Washington. Oct. 7.—Approximate ly 2,.ri00 carload* of food and other necesaitiea are being delivered daily by the railroad* at the cantonment* where the new national army and the national guard are being trained . • r service abroad, according to report* just received by the railroad*' war board. Accurate figure* aa ta tho extant to which the (upplying of food and ne ceaaitie* for the soldier* at the train ing cam pa will intensify the trana portulion problem will not be avail able until all of the campa have re ceived their full quota of men. The task which the railroads have been aaked to perform, however, U a difficult one. It involvea the supply ing of all the necessities of life for 1t nonproductive cities of a population of 40,000 each and 56 smaller cities rang ing in population from 300 to 3.00. Altogether more than 1,000,000 mer gathered at the various cantonments must have their daily necessities brought to them by the railroads. As it take* at least five pound* of food per day for each soldier in addition to 'he clothing, fuel and other supplies that are const.- ntly needed, the rail road* have their work cut out for them. TALENT SELECTED FOR OUR COMING ' LYCEUM COURSE Attractions for Season of 1917-1918 Announced. 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