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Physical Suffering Compared with the Deeper Anguish of Mind and

Heart--Why the Young Turks Continued Their Barbarity--An American

Missionary’s Experience--Martyrdom of First Christian Century Compared

with Scenes in 1915--An American Woman’s Appeal Unheeded--Absurdity

of Turkish Excuse--Inefficiency of Armenian Defense--Cilician

Armenians Disarmed by Misrepresentation--Evacuated Homes Given to

Mohammedan Refugees--More than 20,000 Armenians Forced to Emigrate

from One Province--An Almost Miraculous Escape--“_Christians

in Distress. Rescue!_”--The Third Stage of the Turk’s Plan of

Extermination: “Agricultural Colonies”--Most Undesirable Sites

Chosen--A Thousand Families with only Fifty Grown Men--Unwholesome

Climatic Influences--Scenes in the Refugee Camps--American Embassy

Refused Permission to Carry Help--The Sufferings of Shelterless

Exiles--The Unburied Dead--Epidemic of Typhoid Fever--Exhausted Exiles

Driven Forward at Point of Soldiers’ Bayonets--What a Missionary

Saw--Distributing Bread to the Hungry--Children Sold to Prevent

Starvation--580 Buried in One Day--A Town in the Desert--Instant

Death Preferred to Long Suffering--A Protest from German

Missionaries--Heart-rending Scenes--Massacres Still Going On--Late

News--Present Conditions--Accessories to Turks’ Crime--U.S.A. Entering

into the Conflict. Encouraging Signs--God rules.

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