13. ALEPPO.
Message dated, 7th February, 1916, from Fräulein O.; Published in the German Journal, “Sonnenaufgang,” April, 1916.
I want to beg our friends at home not to grow weary of making intercession for the members of the Armenian nation who are in exile here. If there is no visible prospect of a change for the better, a few months more will see the end of them all. They are succumbing in thousands to famine, pestilence, and the inclemency of the weather. The exiles at Hama, Homs, and in the neighbourhood of Damascus are comparatively better off. They are left where they are, and can look about for means of subsistence. But further East, along the Euphrates, they are driven from place to place, plundered and maltreated. Many of our friends are dead.
[1] The italics are the Editor’s. [↑]
[2] The italics are the Editor’s. [↑]
[3] The italics are the Editor’s. [↑]
[4] The remarks of this Headmaster, who only calls attention to the personal inconvenience suffered by the teachers in the school, is in singular contrast with the impassioned feelings of pity for the Armenians expressed and undoubtedly felt by the author of the report.—Editor’s Note. [↑]
[5] The italics are the Editor’s. The fact which comes out clearly in several of the documents included in this pamphlet, that many German Consuls reported indignantly about these horrors, and that their reports were left unheeded, throws a lurid light on the attitude of the German Government.—Editor’s Note. [↑]
[6] See the last note (Editor’s Note). [↑]
[7] The italics are the Editor’s. [↑]
[8] The italics are the Editor’s. [↑]