THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS
United States is known in Turkey only by the missionaries. If our flag has any prestige or honor, it is due to men like Daddy Christie, and not to the Embassy in Constantinople or the few Consuls scattered here and there.
At the station, soldiers are turning back the Armenians who have managed to slip into trains at Adana and Tarsus. From a long dis- tance one can see, when riding in the train, the warships in the harbor, flying the flags of the "protecting" Powers, whose obligation to make secure life and liberty for Armenians was solemnly entered into by the Treaty of Berlin. One does not expect much of Russia : the treaty was imposed upon her. But England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy they all have war- ships at Mersina. Armenian refugees, fleeing from the massacre at Adana, which occurred right under the nose of the English, French, Germans, Austrians and Italians, see these warships as the train draws into Mersina sta- tion. Turkish soldiers, of the same regiments [166]
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