1,000,000 GREEKS KILLED?
Trebizond Merchant Puts Victims
of "Turco-Germans" at That Figure.
At least 1,000,000 Greeks, men, women,
and children, have perished as the re-
sult of organized massacres and de-
portations by "the Turco-Germans" in
Asiatic Turkey, according to a state-
ment by Lazaros George Macrides, son
of a leading merchant of Trebizond,
made public through the Armenian and
Syrian Relief Committee here yester-
day.
Macrides, who recently arrived here,
says he was one of a party of 2,000
Greeks which was rescued by the Rus-
sian fleet last August and took the
refugees aboard.
"Those of us who were between the
ages of 16 and 60 were drafted into the
Turkish Army, " said Macrides. "Our
women and children and the other men
were placed termporarily in homes and
orphanages until the opportunity offered
to dispose of them in the approved
Turco-Tueton fashion, which in this in-
stance turned out to be by wholesale
drowning.
"The unfortuante survivors of the de-
portation were towed out for several
miles into the Black Sea and then calmly
dumped overboard just like so much
garbage. None of them survived.
The New York Times. Jan 1, 1918.
