The Armenian atrocities can never be fully understood by those who
may be born in a free land, where there are no Turks, no Kurds, no
Circassians, no Georgians, no Zeibecks, and no Mohammedan religion,
with its oppressions and persecutions.
Why the Sultan orders the Turks, Kurds, or other followers to destroy
the Armenians, whereby more than 100,000 of them have recently
been killed, and 500,000 been rendered homeless and left to die of
starvation in the streets and fields, or why the Sultan ordered all
who are spared to accept the Mohammedan religion, is never referred
to with any sort of correctness by the newspapers or periodicals in
their accounts of the dreadful atrocities taking place in Armenia,
and therefore the people are left in ignorance and doubt respecting
the true situation both as to the causes and the atrocities themselves.