General Harbord submitted his report to the Secretary of State. It is a strong indictment of Turkish misrule. and corroborates the statements of Lord Bryce and the reports which have come to the United States of the cruelties to which Armenians have been subjected. In his report General Harbord. speaking of the policy of extermination in 1915. refers to it as the "last and greatest of these tragedies." He states thatmassacres and deportations were organized in the spring of 1915 under definite system. soldiers going from town to town. The official reports of the Turkish Government show 1.100.000 as having been deported. Young men were first summoned to the Government building in each vilayet and then marched out and killed. The women. old men. and children were. after a few days. deported to what Talaat Pasha called " agricultural colonies." from the high. cool. breezeswept plateau of Armenia to the malarial fiats of the Euphrates and the burning sands of Syria and Arabia. The (lead from. this wholesale attempt on the race are variously estimated from 500.000 to more than a million. the usual figure being about 800.000. He further states that the Armenians wereDriven on foot under a fierce sunmer sun. robbed of their clothing and such petty articles as- they carried. prodded by bayonet if they lagged. starvation. typhus. and dysentery left thousands dead by the trail side.
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