THE RED TRAIL OF THE KURD
APPALLING HORRORS IN ARMENIA London, March 22. Appalling accounts as to the condition of Armenia have been received from the Armenian Reel Cross organisation. The Plain of Alashgird is covered with the bodies of men, women, and children lying in frozen jwols of their own blood. Women and children half alive crecp from beneath the corpses lu the ruins of houses. When the Russians retreated the Kurds shut up everybody in the mosques, and then killed the men, after making the women and girls .go through untold agonies. They stripped the females, and stood them against, a wall while they selcctcd those they wanted. 'I hose they placed on horses and taken awa.v Those resisting wore rficrcilessly beaten. There are 120,000 dc'-titlitr-{Jennie in llif i.H-.aH'i >• »— ('T)U)er>" Itltsi fevduar. "gun' f
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2417, 24 March 1915, Page 5
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136THE RED TRAIL OF THE KURD Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2417, 24 March 1915, Page 5
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