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...past three years that she may pass as a judge. Her sympathies, it must be admitted, have been for Finland, Ireland, and Greece. She has seen with no overburdening woe the desolation by brand and steel of Serbia, the destruction of Belgium, the extinction of half of the Armenian race by the Turks for the honor of Islam. Yet now her ethics may not allow her to see without agony the deposition of Tino, alien king of Greece...
...Armenians were hostile to the Russians and determined to show the Turks that they were good soldiers. They hurled the Russians back into Russia and gave the Turks a chance to murder a great number of Russian women and children. The Armenians complained of this and as a result were disarmed and made the slaves of the Turkish soldiers. Many escaped and the Turks on finding it somewhat difficult to persuade those friends with whom they had taken refuge to give them up to be shot as deserters, a general massacre was ordered. The "Butcher Regiment," made up of former...
When the Turks began the attack on Van, they met an armed resistance from the Armenians who were able to obtain weapons of any kind. Bombs were thrown into Van by the Turks, but the Armenian women patrolled the city and rushed up to the bombs before the fuses had burned to the powder, and after extinguishing the flame, used the powder for the shells, which were used against the Turks. After 28 days of continual fighting, the Turks decided that it would be impossible to overcome the Armenian resistance quickly, and on hearing that the Russians were coming...
...mass meeting to present a plea for increased Armenian and Syrian relief work was held in Emerson Hall last night. The principal speakers were Professor George Foot Moore '06, Professor James Richard Jewett '84, K. Bedrosian '14, and S. Malouf 3Div. G. M. Messerian presided. Professor Moore told of the history of Armenia and its oppression by the Turks, while conditions in Syria at the present time furnished the subject of Professor Jewett's speech. Mr. Malouf and Mr. Bedrosian espousing the cause of the two countries, gave talks both earnest and sincere on why Armenia and Syria should...
...Armenian-Syrian mass meeting Emerson...