Springfield Weekly Republican

REVENTLOW DEFENDS TURKS

Declares It Is No One's Business What They Do to Armenians

Count Ernst von Reventlow, military writer for the Berlin Tages Zeitung, in an article in that paper under the headline, "The uproar about the Armenian atrocities," declares flatly that it is Turkey's own affair how she deals with Armenian uprisings. His article was inspired by the report that Henry Morgenthau, the United States ambassador to Turkey, had given Turkey notice that her relations with the United States would be endangered if the Armenian massacres were not stopped. Count von Reventlow declares that he is unable to discuss the matter as he would like, but expresses the hope that Turkey will not allow herself to be frightened. He continues:-

"If Turkey considers it necessary that the Armenian uprisings and other intrigues be suppressed with all means, that does not constitute massacres nor atrocities, but simply a measure of justified and necessary character, the more justified and the more necessary from the fact that the Turkish empire is in its hardest fight for existence and has enough foreign enemies.

To demand that it shall also nourish an internal enemy on its bosom, because that would suit the British and Americans, is to demand a great deal."

The writer expressed indignation at a report published by the Frankfurter Zeitung to the effect that German consuls have endeavored to modify the hardships, and declares that this standpoint is incomprehensible to him and that he considers it politically false.