THE ADANA HORRORS.
FIRE AND SWORD. ■■/: TOLD BY THE VIOE-CONSOfe WIFE. SUFFERINGS OF OHlLDIffiN.' V (bi TECEOBArH— rnEBB' ABaoauMOH—oorrarasT.) (Reo. May 24, 10.20 p.m.) Constantinople, May 24. Mrs. Dooghty XH'ylic, wife of tlie British Vice-Oonsul af Adana, ie tho lieroino of tho recent massacres. Sho writes a hidooua oocoutit of tho atrocities. .'■.■';" ■.. . ,Tho; Armenian quarters wore fired after having been saturated with kerosene from a hose.' Tiio Turks murdered children in' th« ~ presoneo of their mothers. V. .:. Tho'Turkish anthoriticß contented themi solves with torturing unoffending Armenians into, making ."confessions.". ■ _ ■'.'<•■ Measles and dysentery, adds Mra. Doughty Wylie, are. rife. Children arc without milk, and tho only reM it is possible to give, them is haridfuls of rioo and fragments of bread. - : ■•■',■. . '-, ,;■■'•■■'■ ■ • [The hoeinj ot property with kerosene ta '■■'•' promote conlla?rati6n 'was' a: practice • of thi , - Pans Communists. It ie estimated that 6500 OTre hllcd ia Adana, and that in the whol« of tho affected area 30,000 \v«a killed, whili 35,000 were, left homeless and ; penniless,] ■ r
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 516, 25 May 1909, Page 7
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165THE ADANA HORRORS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 516, 25 May 1909, Page 7
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