The New York Times

RUSSIAN HERE FOR COTTON

Wealthy Manufacturer from Windau Will Tour Southern States

JULY 31, 1915

Sasamuel Glushanck, a wealthy cotton manufacturer of Windau, Russia

arrived in
New York yesterday aboard the steamer Kurks to confer with members of
the New
York Cotton Exchange as to the means for shipping cotton to Russia
direct. He
will tour the Southern States before returning to Russia, he said.

On the same vessel came Neville Ussher, the 14-years-old son of an

American
missionary who had been living at Van in Southern Turkey. He said that
when the
Armenians in the district refused to enlist in the Turkish Army they
were
treated cruelly by the soldiers acting under the orders of Djevded Bey,
the
Governor, who is a brother-in-law of Enver Pasha. Neville Ussher said
that
before the Russians came 15,000 Armenian men, women, and children were
killed by
the Turks in and around Van. The last thing the soldiers did before
leaving was
to fire on the castle and kill several old men and women. Five thousand
Turkish
women and children were left behind and the Armenians wanted to wreak
vengeance
on them but the Russian General ordered them to be protected. The boy
added that
there was no time to be scared in Europe now because persons were being
killed
everywhere every day, and people took no notice of it.