REVENTLOW DEFENDED ARMENIAN MASSACRES

Count von Reventlow, German naval expert, defends the Turkish atrocities against the Armenians as “military necessity” (who only were capable of revolution, but who according to every known evidence did not revolt) had nearly all been disposed of, the attack fell upon the widows and orphans, who were driven from their homes by hundreds of thousands at the point of the bayonet.

It is possible that von Reventlow knows that fully one half of these refugees miserably perished from violence, exposure and starvations.

He must be ignorant of the sickening reports made by eyewitnesses- American, Italian, British, German, civilian and officials, who tell of seeing these helpless inoffensive women and girls brained because they clamored for food, or forced into Islam because perchance they were comely, of women throwing their babies into rivers or over precipices to save them from the impending horror of continued existence.

He cannot have known that on August 9 of this year, in Constantinople, the German ambassador in the name of his imperial master, filed a protest against these horrors with the Turkish government.