TURKISH FIENDS IN ARMENIA
f MASSACRE, PILLAGE, AND OUTRAGE, v London, May 10. An American missionary in Urmia, a town of Persia, in the Province of Azerbijan, in a letter dated April 8, says:—"All the Christian villages have been plundered and burnt by the Turks and Kurds. Two thousand persons have been massacred and two thousand have died of disease. Two hundred Turks are carrying on the massacre." The Russian Vice-Consul at Salmas (on the north-west side of Lake Urmia) has reported continual murders, outrages, and abductions at Salmas and Gulpashan. On the Turkish Consul's orders, twenty-five prominent men were conveyed to a graveyard at Gulpashan and butchered like animals in the presence of their relatives. One minister was crucified and then burnt alive. A bishop was h'anged. Refugees in -the Catholic Mission were taken before the Turkish Consul, and sixty-four beheaded. _ _ • Several parties of Christians _at Salmas were massacred . with their arms tied together. There _ were other instances where the victims were tied to' ladders, with their heads sticking through the rounds, and beheaded.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2459, 12 May 1915, Page 5
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175TURKISH FIENDS IN ARMENIA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2459, 12 May 1915, Page 5
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