Armenians and Belgians

A report that was written by Johann Lepsius, under commission from the German Foreign Ministry, and has now been published in part by the Berlin Tageblatt, is described as “the truth about the Armenian massacres.”

Berlin dispatches say the writer shows that the Turkish Committee of Union and Progress deliberately decided to realize national ideas by assimilating or destroying the Armenians, who in Turkey number about 1,850,000. But he repudiates the charge that Germany favored the crimes or that German officials incited the Turks to commit them.

In connection with this report, Theodore Wolff, editor of the Tageblatt, “refers to the deportation of Belgian unemployed, saying that of 56,000 who were deported and treated as slaves, 15,000 perished in two months.”

Even though Germany be guiltless in the matter of the Armenian massacres, she has, God knows! Enough upon her soul.