[168] _The New Armenia_, May 15, 1916, New York; the article _The
Martyrdom of Armenia_, by Paul Perrin.
[169] Toynbee, “Armenian Atrocities,” pp. 30-1.
[170] A repetition of a case which is reported from the massacres of
1909 when a woman who had seen her child burnt alive in the village
church, answered her would-be comforters: “Don’t you see what has
happened? God has gone mad.” Toynbee, “Armenian Atrocities,” p. 38.
[171] Toynbee, “Armenian Atrocities,” pp. 39, 40.
[172] There were about 1500 or more of the Armenians in prison in
Sivas, waiting to be massacred.
[173] The men at Tocat, like those in many other places, were taken on
the road and killed. An Armenian soldier, serving in the Turkish army
was captured by the British at the Dardanelles. This soldier stated,
“How men of Tocat were tied together in groups of four and taken 100 at
a time to the marshy districts for massacre.”
[174] These local officials receive two orders from the central
government: the one to be shown to the neutrals, the other to deal with
the Armenians. The latter order is to kill the Armenians in any manner
they please.
[175] _The Missionary Herald_, Dec., 1915. Boston, Mass.