. Leavening the Levant . dto obviate any interference of Europe in behalf of the Chris-tian subjects of Turkey, following the example of SultanAbdul Hamid, they adopted measures—measures the mostcruel and diabolical—for the extermination of the Armenian-people. First, they drafted into the army all able-bodiedArmenian men; then they seized, imprisoned and secretlykilled the remaining men and boys; then they drove fromtheir homes the rest of the people, the young and the old, therich and the poor, the sick and the well, and started them onfoot from all points of Asia Minor on a journey of hundr
. Leavening the Levant . dto obviate any interference of Europe in behalf of the Chris-tian subjects of Turkey, following the example of SultanAbdul Hamid, they adopted measures—measures the mostcruel and diabolical—for the extermination of the Armenian-people. First, they drafted into the army all able-bodiedArmenian men; then they seized, imprisoned and secretlykilled the remaining men and boys; then they drove fromtheir homes the rest of the people, the young and the old, therich and the poor, the sick and the well, and started them onfoot from all points of Asia Minor on a journey of hundredsof miles, towards the deserts of Arabia, to die by the way fromhunger and thirst, from weariness and exposure, while thou-sands of women and girls were forced into a life of shameand slavery in Moslem tents and huts and houses. Of coursethe goods and property of all these people—perhaps 1,000,000in number—were seized and confiscated. These cruelties andcrimes were explicitly ordered by the leaders of the Young. THE ARMENIAN QUESTION 45 Turks at Constantinople and executed by the regular Turkishofficials. We are glad to be able to add, however, that someofficials refused to execute the infamous orders and gave uptheir posts, and we have reason to believe that a large partof the Mohammedan population did not approve of ! that the movement of the Young Turks, begun so hope-fully, should issue in such crimes. Alas! that the YoungTurks should thus have blackened their name with infamy,and should have rendered themselves unworthy of the recog-nition of any self-respecting nation on the face of the earth. But the Turks say, The Armenians are rebels. Witnesswhat they did in Van! Did not the Outlook newspaper somemonths ago print a picture of the barricades which the Ar-menians built in the streets of that city? Such was thestatement of a Turk in a letter published ia the New YorkTimes of October 18, 1915. We reprint the picture. Well, what are the facts ? In April a
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