1,000,000 Greeks Killed?

The New York Times, January 1st 1918, page 15.

1,000,000 GREEKS KILLED?
Trebizond Merchant Puts Victims of "Turco-Germans" at That Figure.
At least 1,000,000 Greeks, men, women, and children, have perished as the result of organizd massacres and deportations by "the Turco-Germans" in Asiatic Turkey, according to a statement by Lazaros George Macrides, son of a leading merchant of Trebizond, made public through the Armenian and Syrian Relief Committee here yesterday.
Macrides, who recently arrived here, says he was one of a party of 2,000 Greeks which was rescued by the Russian fleet that bombared the town of Ordou late last August and took refugees aboard.
"Those of us who were between the ages of 16 and 60 were drafted into the Turkish Army," said Macrides. "Our women an children and the older men were placed temporarily in homes and orphanages until the opportunity offered to dispose of them the approved Turco-Tauton fashion, which in this instance turned out to be by wholesale drowning.
"The unfortunate survivors of the deportation were towed out for several miles into the Black Sea and then calmly dumped overboard, just like so much garbage. None of them survived.