To End Horrors

United States Intercessions on Behalf of Armenians Suggested by Bryce

Former British Ambassador to the United States Believes American Government Should Stop Destroying Hand of Turks

London, Viscount Bryce, formerly British ambassador to the United States has sent to the Associated Press a plea that America try to stop the slaughter of Armenians

‘The civilized world,’ he says in his plea, ‘especially America ought to know what horrors have been passing in Asiatic Turkey during the last few months for if anything can stop the destroying hand of the Turkish government it will be an expression of the opinion of neutral nations, chiefly the judgment of humane America.

‘Soon after the war broke out between Turkey and the allies,’ continues the viscount, ‘the Turkish government formed and since has been carrying out with relentless cruelty a plan for extirpating Christianity by killing off Christians of the Armenian race. Accounts from different courses agree that over the whole of eastern and northern Asia Minor and Armenia the Christian population is being deliberately exterminated the men of the military age being killed and the younger women seized for Turkish harems compelled to become Mohammedans and kept with children in virtual slavery. The rest of the inhabitants, old women, men and children have been driven under convoy of Turkish soldiers into unhealthy parts of Asia Minor, some to the deserts between Syria and the Euphrates. Many die or are murdered en route, and all perish sooner or later.’