Peril of the Christians in Turkey Never So Great

The Washington Post, July 12th 1915, page 3.

PERIL OF THE CHRISTIANS IN TURKEY NEVER SO GREAT, AMERICANS REPORT
London, July 12—The peril of the Christian population in Turkey is discussed by the Morning Post Athens correspondent on information derived from Americans returning from various parts of Turkey.
“Christians have never been in such peril,” says the correspondent, “particularly Armenians and Greeks, who are being systematically uprooted from their homes, and driven into distant provinces, where they are scattered in small groups among Turkish villages.
“For example, 56,000 have thus been evicted from the Dardanelles district, 15,000 from the Prinkipo Island (one of the Princes group, in the Sea of Marmora), 19,000 from Ismid province (Asia Minor) and 60,000 from Brusa.”
The correspondent adds that the able-bodied men are drafted into the army; that their families are thus broken up, and that the representatives of the foreign powers have been unable to interfere because all steps have been taken on the plea of military necessity.