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Title: Leavening the Levant
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Greene, Joseph K., 1834-
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: Boston, The Pilgrim Press
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ARROWS SHOW DEPORT;**-0-.^ RELIEF CENTERS 48 LEAVENING THE LEVANT It may be added that after the flight of the Armenians,the Turks and Kourds plundered the city of Van and burneda good part of it, including the mission hospital and churchand several other buildings. Subsequently the Russians re-turned in larger force, and again the Turks fled, and Van isagain in Russian hands. Such is the history, in brief, of the so-called rebellion ofthe Van Armenians. It was an attempt to defend themselvesand their families from sure outrage and death, and thisattempt occurred only after the Young Turkish leaders inConstantinople had for months been sending into mercilessdeportation and destruction hundreds of thousands of inno-cent men, women, and children! Out of one body of Ar-menians numbering 5,000, deported from Harpout, only 213survived to reach Aleppo, and these, almost naked and fam-ished, were to be driven forward to the desert of Meso-potamia. Are the few Young Turks who are responsible

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