Major Yowell and three other Americans, who had spent the
winter distributing relief at Kharput to Moslems and Christians alike, have been expelled by the Turks. They report that their expulsion is the prelude to fresh massacres of the Christians, who have been deprived of all civil -rights and are treated with the greatest cruelty. Of 30,000 Greeks who were deported from Sivas, 10,000 died on the road or after reaching Kharput. The American relief workers were forbidden to care for the Greek children. The Greek women and girls were forcibly taken into Turkish harems. Our ardent Liberal and Labour Turcophiles will find it hard to represent this American evidence as mere Greek propaganda. Major Yowell simply confirms the well- known fact that the Turk is a brutal savage, who is unfit to have any Christian subjects. Our Government will assume a terrible responsibility if they allow Mustapha Kemal to work his will on the Christians of Ionia and Thrace.
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