Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1919 — TURKISH BATH WEAPON [ARTICLE]

TURKISH BATH WEAPON

Greeks “Parboiled” and Then Sent Out Into Cold. Charges of Frightful Atrocities by Turkish Officials Made by Doctor White. Charges that Turkish officials decimated the Greek population along the Black sea coast, 250,000 men. women and children living between Sinope and Ordou, without the shedding of blood but by “parboiling” the victims In Turkish baths and turning them half-clad out to die of pneumonia or other Ills in the snow of an Anatolian winter, are made in a letter from Dr. George E. White, representative of the American committee for relief in the near East. Sinope was the birthplace of the philosopher Diogenes, Doctor White re—no, and Ordou is Just beyond Cape

| Jason, which is still preserved in memory of the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece. The letter, written to Prof. J. PXenldes. secretary of the Greek relief committee here, described the new method of ridding the land of its inhabitants which,TtrlsT&id,~was7Bomewhat different from that employed by the Turks against the Armenians. The of the crimes laid to the Turks, according to Doctor White, were committed in the winters of 1916 and' 1917, when orders were issued for the deportation of- the Greeks along the Black sea coast. The people, he wrote, were crowded into the steam A>oms of the baths in Chorum , under the pqetense of “sanitary regulations,” and after being tortured for hours were tunped out of doors- Into show almost knee-deep, and without lodging or food. Their garments, which had been taken from them for fumigation, were lost, ruined or stolen. Most of the

victims, ill-clad and shivering, contracted tuberculosis and other pulmonary diseases and “died In> swarms” on the way to exile, the letter de- t dared. Doctor White said that in the province of Basra, where there were more, than 29,000 village Greeks, now less than 13,000 survive and every Greek settlement lias been burned. The number of orphans, including some Armenian and Turkish children, in the entire district, it was said, aggregated 60,000. Since the armistice, the doo Tor wrote, many of the deportees have been returning to their ruined homes^