This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ... of them in all--perished thus on their journey, and the other half have been dying lingering deaths ever since at their journey's end." Many instances of the terrible torture inflicted on these unfortunate people are related in the Bryce report, such as the following, vouched for by a German eye-witness: "Every ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ... of them in all--perished thus on their journey, and the other half have been dying lingering deaths ever since at their journey's end." Many instances of the terrible torture inflicted on these unfortunate people are related in the Bryce report, such as the following, vouched for by a German eye-witness: "Every officer boasted of the number he had personally massacred. In Harpout the people have had to endure terrible tortures. They have had their eyebrows plucked out, their breasts cut off, their nails torn off. Their torturers hew off their feet or else hammer nails into them just as they do in shoeing horses. When they die, the soldiers cry: 'Now let your Christ help you.'" In the past two years not less than one million Armenians and Syrians in Turkey have perished as a result of massacre, deportation, exposure, starvation and disease. For the most part massacre and deportation have ceased, but from the other causes named, deaths continue to multiply. "A hard task is assigned the missionaries, that of practically signing the death sentence of children. For example, in one case, there were 430 children with funds sufficient for only seventy. The missionaries were forced to select the seventy and say no to the equally or possibly more destitute 360." In the Lebanon district alone it was reported recently that sufferers were dying at the rate of 1,000 a day. "Little children scarcely able to feed themselves live absolutely alone in deserted homes." In all, over two million Armenians and Syrians are homeless and destitute and of this number some 400,000 are orphans. Talk about rehabilitation! For a long period after the War is over these heroic sufferers will be struggling to mend their bodies, restore their homes, and bu...
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Publisher:
Missionary Society of the Evangelical Assoc
Published:
1918
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
10882636605
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Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1918 EDITION. Ex-Library (college) with usual markings. Text contains some underlining/marking. Covers show light edge wear with slight bend. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Fair. No Jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Brown cloth binding. There are water marks on the bottom corners of all the pages with water marks on the top corners of the last few pages. There is a name printed on the front end paper. There is cloth bleaching on the edges of the back cover and the spine has some fading.
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