TURKS PARBOILED 250,000
The New York Times
July 31, 1919
Charges that Turkish officials deci-
mated the Greek population along the
Black Sea coast by 250,000 men, women
and children living between Sinope and
Ondou without the shedding of blood,
but by ‘parboiling’ the victims in
Turkish baths and turning them out
half-clad to die of pneumonia or other
ills in the snow of an Anatolian Winter,
are made in a letter from Dr. George
E. White, representative of the Ameri-
can Committee for Relief in the Near
East, made public yesterday.
Dr. White said that in the Province of
Bafra, also, where there were more than
29,000 village Greeks, now less than 13,-
000 survive, and every Greek settlement
has been burned. The number of or-
phans, including some Armenian and
Turkish children, in the entire district,
it was said, aggregated 60,000. Since
the armistice, the doctor wrote, many
of the deportees have been returning to
their ruined homes.
