FIENDISH CRUELTIES IN THE CAUCASUS
TURKISH ATROCITIES
(Rec. February 23, 10.35 p.m.) Petrograd, February .23. ; i During the occupation of Ardahan (in | 'the Caucasus) the Turks dragged into . ithe streets 150 Armenians and cut their throats. Old Turkish residents cold--bloodedly, killed their, .old Armenian'aofluaintances. " Fifty Armenians were ; Istripped and compelled to leap into an ■ abyss 'called the "Devil's Gap," until <mo carried a Turk over with him. Then ! tho" remainder were 6hot. : \ Two hundred and fifty were massacred at Tauivot, and tho women were car- ' a'ied into captivity,
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2393, 24 February 1915, Page 6
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88FIENDISH CRUELTIES IN THE CAUCASUS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2393, 24 February 1915, Page 6
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