11 maggio 1915 – The Mercury (pag. 5)
21 luglio 1915 – The Mercury (pag. 5)
ROME, July 19. The Rome newspaper “Giornale d’Italia” states that refugees from Turkey bring alarming news of the Ottoman situation. The troops of Adrianople have revolted, refusing to go to Constantinople, which they call the turkish soldiers’ tomb. Enver Pasha. the Minister of War, has been summoned to restore order. A plot was discovered against Enver Pasha and the Germans, whereupon 50 officers and soldiers were shot on Thursday last without trial. Anarchy reigns in Constantinople, where private houses have been requisitioned for the wounded, the price of bread is inflated, coal is scarse, thus hindering navigation, and there is a shortage of doctors and medical requisites. The persecution of the Armenians and other foreigners continues. The Committee of Union and Progress, or Young Turk Party, seeing impending ruin, are sending emissaries to Egypt, Tunis, and Libya, for the purpose of fomenting crimes.
13 settembre 1915 – The Mercury (pag. 5)
22 settembre 1915 – The Mercury (pag. 5)
23 settembre 1915 – The Mercury
LONDON, September 22. Viscount Bryce, in his appeal to the American people to assist in stopping the Turkish atrocities in Armenia, refers to the relentless cruelty of the Turks in extirpating Christianity. He says the Armenians had not rebelled, and were unarmed, but men of military age were killed, and the younger women seized for the harems, and compelled, with their children, to become Muhommedans, and were kept in slavery. Convoys of Turkish soldiers, who are largely composed of released criminals, are driving old men and women into unhealthy parts of the Asia Minor desert between Syria and the Euphrates, and many of these old men and women are being murdered. The road to Juyholles is strewn with corpses, and all will perish sooner or later. The Italian Consul describes how the Turkish troops hunted out 10,000 Armenians from Trebizond, drove them to the shore, placed them on sailing boats, took them out to sea, and throw them overboard, drowning all, men, women and children. About 250,000 Armenians escaped into Russia. Some of the Armenians have been saved by accepting Islam, but 500,000 have been slaughtered, and the deported are now dying from disease or starvation. Germany alone can check the massacres, and America, adds Viscount Bryce, should persuade Germany to exercise her influence and stop the ghastly work.
01 ottobre 1915 – The Mercury (pag. 5)
LONDON, September 30. The Cairo correspondent of “The Times” states that some of the German Consuls encouraged the atrocities in Armenia. Herr Rossler, the German Consul at Aleppo, wout to Aintas, and superintended the murders in person, and the notorious Baron Appenheim (Baron von Oppenheim, n.d.r.) suggested the removal of the women and children of the Allies to Urfa, to the south-west of Diarbekir, whete they could not fail to witness the barbarities committed by the troops in the streets, which literally ran with blood. There is incontestable proof that Talaat Bey, the Turkish Minister ot the Interior was the instigator of the atrocities.
