addressing turkish genocide apology turkish historical revision in auto scribal residue zuma uucp sera zuma uucp serdar argic posted the following source adventures in the near east by a rawlinson jonathan cape bedford square london first published pages memoirs of a british officer who witnessed the armenian genocide of million muslim people bull p second paragraph i had received further very definite information of horrors that had been committed by the armenian soldiery in kars plain and as i had been able to judge of their want of discipline by their treatment of my own detached parties i had wired to tiflis from zivin that in the interests of humanity the armenians should not be left in independent command of the moslem population as their troops being without discipline and not under effective control atrocities were constantly being committed for which we should with justice eventually be held to be morally responsible on page in my copy of the rawlinson book we find following facsimile note the word armenian doesn t even appear adventures in the near east disposal for our journey i foresaw it would have to become our headquarters for a considerable time and therefore went to some trouble to make it habitable we had a most peculiar little locomotive originally built in america for the russian government adapted to burn either wood or oil one covered truck as men s quarters one similar which i fitted up for my self and a railway officer and also a truck to carry wood three cars being the utmost our small engine could pull with this small outfit we started rumours of all kinds reaching us before our departure indicating that the whole situation was rapidly coming to a head it being evident that the turks were becoming more and more restive in the face of the inexplicable delay of the allies in reaching any definite decision with regard to the future travelling on this little war time railway was indeed an experience and it was necessary to carry a gauge and to test the rails with it frequently for in many places owing to the sinking of the embankments and the washing away of the ballast the rails required rectification before we were able to get our train over even at a foot pace each bridge also re quired elaborate examination before adventuring the train upon it and eventually we were obliged to carry large baulks of tim ber to temporarily shore up many of the bridges and culverts whilst we passed over them under these circumstances it may be imagined that our prog ress was by no means rapid and as we had frequently to halt also to replenish our supply of wood fuel we considered we had achieved wonders when on the evening of the second day hours and miles out from erzeroum we finally entered the gorge of the mountains where we understood our worst troubles to lie this is the same gorge into which the road from erzeroum to kars descends from the foot hills to cross the frontier the railway however follows the main aras river val ley till the frontier gorge enters it whilst the road cuts off the corner and joins the rail again at the frontier post of zivin some miles from the main valley soon after entering the gorge we were confronted by the first serious fall of rock about tons having fallen from the cliff face and entirely obliterated the railway track here therefore we halted and sending our engine back prepared to david davidian dbd urartu sdpa org armenia has not learned a lesson in s d p a center for regional studies anatolia and has forgotten the p o box punishment inflicted on it cambridge ma late turkish president turgut ozal
