The Truth About Armenian Massacres

(By the Associated Press)

Berlin, July 29. – What is described as “the truth about the Armenian massacres,” is revealed to the German public by the Tageblatt, which prints extracts of a book based upon diplomatic documents which the foreign ministry commissioned Johann Lepsius to write.

The writer shows that the Turkish committee of Union and Progres deliberately decided to realize national idea by assimilation or destroying the Armenians, who in Turkey number 1,850,000. He describes the arrest and massacre of 600 Armenian leaders in April, 1915, and how the previous so-called Armenian rising was provoked as a pretext for Young Turk schemes. Lepsius repudiated the charge that Germany favored the crimes or that German officials incited the Turks to commit them, saying the German embassy was important.

Theodor Wolff, editor in chief of the Tageblatt, in connection with the book refers to the deportation of Belgian unemployed, saying that of 56,000 who were deported and treated as slaves 1,500 perished in two months.