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Worship of a Tribal God Has Led Germany Into An Irreligious Al liance With Turkey. (New York Tribune) In yielding to Germany's latest peace demands the Bolsheviks have signed Armenia's death warrant. The R in armies are to withdraw from Erzerum and Trebizond, Kas and Ba tum and a large section of Trans- Caucasia, which has been Russian since 1878, are to be turned back to Turkish sovereignty, Turkish sover eignty means German sovereignty. For the sake of ace to the rich oil wells of the Batum region the Ger man government forces Lenine and Trotzky to doom what is left of an unfortunate race to speedy extinction. Since 1914 the Armenians have suf fered even more from Turkish bru tality than the Belgians have — suf fered from German brutality. The Turk is a murderous fanatic when roused by race hatred or religious He has an undying grudge the Armenian. Before the Nn armies overran Armenia he had massacred 500,990 of the inhabi tants--men, women and children. Even German writers have admitt this colossal crime. The civilized world revolted at the inhuman spec tacle Ty would not have been en titled to consider itself Christian if it had not resolved to end, forever, at the close of the war, the dominion of the Turk over the Christian peoples of Western Asia. Germany ood apart, She ill not have it so. The Germian a re still pagan one thery thin ve neer of Christianity The God they worship is a tribal, tutelary divinity, sanctioning everything that contrib utes to German power and glory. The years gen offered himself to the Mosient world as ampathetic Well-wishered patron. Is now making food the words of his Jerusa lem address? in the interest of Ger many's political and economic expan sive is turning back a partially de livered Cristie to the bloody hands of 4 if there tence of Von Litovel, but seeking to give subject race out of “self determination. Armenia would set its chance to eat away from Turkey, just as Poland, the Ukraine, Lithian- Finlandnd the Battle provinces, allo tting theirs to cut away from Russia. But Turkey is a useful man ¥ ur beyond Armenia for the Caucasus, with its treasures of petroleum Against thcoveted military stores what do the lives of artrhenian Christians count in the halaner The Christian world fexending Ger may Austria-Hungary and Bulgar ia) rejoiced a few months aso over the pecpve of Jerusalem. Aginst itly of cheer is mow set, the restor 1 lenia to the bloodthirsty TAT, and fiendishness have their day of triumph but Christ ydom and civilization will not rest until an Armenia delivered is added to a Jerusalem delivered, kak {In the Gre at Brest- 7 or N
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New Britain, Connecticut, US
Wed, Mar 13, 1918
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