Why the Young Turks Declared War--Reasons for the Beginning of
the Massacres--A Draft of Armenians with the Army--Disarmed and
Made to Work on the Roads--Turkish Proclamation of “A Holy War”--A
Holy War Explained--Proclamation Favorably Received by Mohammedans
Everywhere--Suffering Syrian Christians--“A Price on Every Christian
Head”--Consequences--Letter from a Medical Missionary--Heart-rending
Scenes--A Catholic Priest Who Refuses to Confess Mohammed as God’s
Prophet and His Fate--Report of Dr. Vanneman--Urumia--Native
Christian Preachers Crucified--Inhabitants of Van Resist--Timely
Arrival of Russian Forces--Succor only Temporary--Turks and Kurds
Return--“Suppressing Armenian Rebellion”--Turkish Treachery--Scenes
along the Road--Christians Held in Prison and then Slain--Atrocities
Miscalled “Justifiable and Necessary Measures”--Wholesale
Drownings--“Turkey for the Turks”--Testimony of Dr. Herbert Adams
Gibbons--The Turks not Satisfied with Less than the Complete
Extermination of all Who Oppose Mohammedanism.