19 May 1922: U.S. Relief Workers Reporting Atrocities, Evening Star

U.S. RELIEF WORKERS REPORTING ATROCITIES, FIND LIVES IN JEOPARDY

The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), May 19, 1922. p.1.

By the Associated Press.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 19. -
Publication of reports by Ameri-
can relief workers in the interior
of Asia Minor concerning the sys-
temaic persecution of Christians
by the Turkish nationalists has
jeopardized the position of the
workers, it is declared in American
missionary circles here.
Many of these reports had been
submitted confidentially to the
league of nations, and it is believ-
ed that prompt and energetic ac-
tion by the powers is necessary to
secure the safety of the agents,
now that publicity has been given
to their evidence.
All the workers corroborate the
stories of atrocities, especially the
progress of the so-called white
massacres, which consist of driv-
ing parties of Christians from
place to place until they die from
sickness, famine or exhaustion.
The statement issued by the
Turkish nationalist representative
here that some of the missionaries
and relief workers had denied the
reported atrocities is declared by
the missionary authorities to be a
fabrication.