This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... VIII. THE ATTITUDE OF GERMANY. "The orders are from head-quarters," writes one of the witnesses quoted in the last chapter, "and any reprieve must be from the same source." But where are these " head-quarters "? For it is vitally important to penetrate to them, if the remnant of the Armenians that are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... VIII. THE ATTITUDE OF GERMANY. "The orders are from head-quarters," writes one of the witnesses quoted in the last chapter, "and any reprieve must be from the same source." But where are these " head-quarters "? For it is vitally important to penetrate to them, if the remnant of the Armenians that are lingering in agony at Sultanieh and Der-el-Zor, are still to be rescued from their doom. We have traced the crime back to Enver and his gang at Constantinople, but that is not enough. By participating in the war, Turkey contracted herself into the apprenticeship of Germany, and abandoned her freedom of action to Germany's lead. What is the attitude of Turkey's patron towards the organised murder of the Armenian race? And what action has been taken in the matter by the corps of German officials on Ottoman territory? "According to the testimony of the refugees from Syria, several German consuls have directed or encouraged the massacres of the Armenians. Special mention is made of Herr Rossler, consul at Aleppo, * who has gone to Aintab to direct the massacres in * "The man who contrived the plot against unfortunate Zeitoun." person, and the notorious Baron Oppenheim, who initiated the idea of deporting to Ourfa the -women and children belonging by nationality to the Allies, though he knew well enough that these unfortunates would be unable to avoid witnessing there the barbarous acts committed by the troops in the very streets of the town, which are literally drenched in blood." That is a sinister rumour, but of course it is not evidence of a conclusive order. It is merely a cablegram from Cairo which was published towards the end of September in the Paris press. We find the same suspicion, however, reappearing in the "Gotchnag" of New York on...
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