TURKISH ATROCITIES
Western Mail, W.A
October 26, 1922.
The following appeal printed has been
received in London from a well-known
member of the Greek colony in France:
"Each day brings fresh crimes to
our knowledge. Only yesterday, the
writer of these lines had the shock of
learning of the death of a beloved
brother, whom the Turks had murdered
by injecting poison, whilst professing to
vaccinate him. They have murdered in
this way thousands and thousands of
young Greeks from the Pontus, after
enrolling them in those terrible "labour
battalions". Is it not time that the pro-
posed Commission of Inquiry into these
abominations without parallel in the
world's history should really get to work
in order to end, belated though its in-
stitution has been, the martyrdom of a
whole peaceable population consisting of
little else beyond inoffensive and de-
fenceless women and children? It is a
question of simple charity and of the
most elementary humanity."
The charge brought against the Turks
of killing off Christian "recruits" by
toxic injections will only astonish those
who have forgotten that certain mem-
bers and agents of the Committee of
Union and Progress were convicted by
the courts-martial held at Constantinople
after the armistice of having systemati-
cally perpetrated a similar method of
crime in Turkish hospitals during the
war.
TURKISH ATROCITIES. (1922, October 26). Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), p. 8 (PICTORIAL SECTION). Retrieved March 3, 2018, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41696884
