Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1919 — ALLENBY STOPS GRAFT OF TURK [ARTICLE]

ALLENBY STOPS GRAFT OF TURK

Persecution of Armenians and Confiscation of Property Prevented by English Officer.

‘The most arbitrary city boss In the world, it seems safe to say, as well as tlie most unscrupulous politician of modern times, has turned up in Alntab, Armenia, to judge from an official report recently made by Major Stephen Trowbridge, under Gen. Edmund H. H. Allenby’s orders. He Is aTurk named Beslm Bey. Until the Near East Relief agents stopped him, he practiced upon the terrified Armenians such forms of super-graft as might well make every other, corrupt politician In the world green with envy, and such cruelties as make all other heartless rulers, from Nero down, seem sweet and gentle characters. His office was that of Municipal Chief Accountant of Alntab; but, as all dishonest office-holders know, It isn’t the job that matters, but the sugar-plums that go with It Beslm Bey plucked sugar-plums with both hands, night and day. Even inspired city bosses have their day. Beslm Bey's cami when the Near East Relief agents found that no thorough Armenian relief work could be done in that city* while such tions of terrorization existed. General Mac Andrew ordered the arrest and removal of the six worst Turks in the ring that ruled the city, and Beslm B. - i -lified, as usual, for first plnce