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All three for Si.uu TELEPHONE OR MAIL US YOUR ORDERS PARCEL POST ORDERS MAILED PROMPTLY Hickory a u n Q a a a g a a a a a a g a g n u n a a B 0 a a I a a Lute Drag THE REXALL STORE -: TELEPHONE 46 Store "On the Corner" Phones 17 & 317 HOW TURKS PUT ARMENIANS TO DEATH By the "Associated Press. New York, Oct. 15 ;Buried alive of! babies in trenches with the bodies of their mothers, who had been slaughtered or allowed to perish from exposure, was practiced by the Turks in their work of exter minating the Armenians, it was de clared here today by the Rev. Hen ry H. Riggs, missionary ,of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions to Harput, Turkey, who recently came back to this country. A trench was dug beside a camp of American women, he said, and s they met death the survivors were forced to drag their bodies to it and bury them. , "The gendarmes said they could, not take care of the babies that! were left behind, so many of those1 were buried with their mothers," j Dr. Rigga said. "Wihen I visited this camp I frequently saw Turks wandering about among the Ar-j menians picking out pretty girls! and little children to take away to j their homes. Some mothers tqid us that they had themselves thrown their babies into the Euphrates riv er rather than allow them to be tak en to Moslem homes. Many more threw themselves into the river to escape a bondage of shame worse than death. "About fifteen miles from Harput is a lake hidden from sght with many ravines about it. We were told that the Armenian exiles were being killed and left in these ra vines. Two Americans investigat ed and brought back photographs and actual facts. Thev saw in a twenty mile ride 10,000 human , bodies, most of them killed by the j bayonet. With a few exceptions '. they were women and children and ! the mangled condition of their bod ies showed' the horrible ,ate that has been theirs." The story of the deportation of the Armenians of Harput is one of "perfidy, violence and murder," Dr. Riggs went on, adding, "It is near er to the truth to say the Turkish government undertook the extinc tion of the Armenian, population. After the issue of an edict for all Armenians to go to Mesopotamia, he said, there came the arrest of all the men of standing. "They were sent out on the road tied together in groups of two to five, he saicLji 'driven and beaten by the gendarmes. Of the first party of 800, one young man sur vived to tell the story of what hap pened. The party was taken into a ravine and ordered to sit down, he told me. Then the gendarmes climbed up on the surrounding rocks and fired with their rifles in to the crowd of bound prisoners as long as they showed signs of life. "The man who told me the story succeeded in getting his knife and cutting himself loose. As he made his dash for liberty he was followed by a volley of shots but got away unscratched. All of the other men of that and similar parties were ruthlessly butchered. '".The women and children were then started on the road toward Mesopotamia in companies of two or three thousand. By indirect routes they were forced to wander about nnT.il the summer heat and disease Jf wasted away the majority. No transportation was provided. I saw one old man, who had traveled 200 miles, start out to go the remaining 250 miles carrying on his back his pack of quilts and clothes and on top of that his aged, palsied wife, who could not walk.. "Often the routes chosen took the people over waterless deserts where thousands perished, from thirst. I passed through such a region where thouands of bleached skeletons each side of the way told the story of a waterless journey across the plains in August. "The people who passed through Harput from the north usually spent two or three days in camp within sight of my home. The sights we saw there can never be forgotten. They were absolutely without shel ter, day or night, from heat or cold. The air was unspeakably foul from dead bodies lying near. As we approached the women and children came around us like hun erv wolves, all restraint lost in the one desire for a piece of bread. "The sick and dying lay around under the blazing sun with no one to care for them, waiting for the end. One place I saw a row of twelve dead women and children who had been lying in the shade of trees. .. 1 . . 1 1 1 Ml iWith them was one little oaDy still alive. The shade had shifted and the burning August sun had fallen on them and killed them. A long trench was dug beside the field where these people were obliged to dig and fill it. As soon as one died she was dragged to the trench." In January, 1916, Dr. Riggs said, there were 485.000 deported Arme nians in Mesopotamia, while m May 1917 the most careful investigation showed onlv 112,000 survivors, more than three quarters having perish ed from famine, pestilence and mas sacre in fifteen months. "The onlv bright feature of this terrible picture is the help that has actually reached a fraction of these people through relief lunas irom America's evjer ready .generosity," Tir tticre-s said. "In Harput we were able to give daily rations of bread to nearly 5,000 widows and orphans. If more money had come there wer 20,000 within reach equal ly in need. Upon the rupture ol diplomatic relations), the Turkish (government confiscated out food supplies ana many oi mese pev supplies and many of these peo nl nArished of hunger" Since then, however, Dr Riggs mMmied.. arrangements have been made to continue the relief work through neutral agents who are dis bursing the funds and supplies gath thered through the American Com mittee for Armenian and Syrian Re lief in New York city. The ques tion of saving the remnant of the Armenian race, he said, can be solv ed onlv bv American generosity. Umstea d & Yoder m mm SanJtarv Market Dollar Day at our Store will mean Dollars saved to you ? Why W W A M, Because we -are going to offer exrep"on ally Big Bargains. DOWS I Watch our Windows for Dollar Day Specials Regina Millinery Company BUY A LIBERTY BOND Then Get These Bargains on Dollar Day, October 18th, 1917 4 boxes of 35c and 50c stationery at $1.00 5 boxes of 25c Stationery at $1.00 4 Latest 60c Novels by popular writers $1.00 6 latest 25c Novels for children $1.00 20 Sheets of popular sheet Music $1.00 12 Rolls Japanese Crepe. Toilet Paper $1.00 12 Rolls Dennison Crepe Paper, all shades $1.00 Last But not Least Our ever popular Fountain Pen Day. We will sell Pens that retail for $1 .50 to $4.00 at $ 1 .00. We have other bargains that will be on display. Make us a visit and save a few dollars for Us. THE VAN DYKE SHOP The Only First Class Book Store in the County "The Armeniian men fre dead." he said, "and the women have been crushed and cannot long survive the terrible- experifcndes ithrough which they have passed. But there are 400,000 orpjhan children, most of whom are begging their bread today. The hope of the future is in gathering (boyetjhepr jthesei tfemw nants and saving them for the seed of the future Armenian race. These children look to us today. If they can be fed and housed and educat ed for the next ten years they can fconstitute the leading progressive element in the life of a new Turkey ks their fathers did in the old." QaDDDDDQCTQDDEIIlDDDOLElJtUMUUUUDUUUULJUODDCn b i r TP D. !UO M g Are i ou uomg 10 omia: a IF SO SEE THE i Builder s Supply Company j Who can furnish you any kind of building j material: Shingles, Lathes and Hard J Wood Floors, Specialties. i PHONE 64-L. g s BisaaaannnnnnnnnDOOODonnnonnonono11! I 1 '
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