HUN “FRIGHTFULNESS“

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2522, 24 July 1915, Page 5

HUN “FRIGHTFULNESS“

DREADFUL ATROCITIES iH » POLAND 1 . ■ • By Telegraph—Press Association—GopyrigH k Paris, July 22. M. Nadaud, tlie correspondent of the "Paris Journal," states that in numerj ous Polish villages the Germans comI polled tho farmers to watch their little daughters being outraged ,by bands oS : thirty and .forty soldiers,' led by. their officers. Soveral young girls escaped 5 and drowned themselves, whereupon the [ Germans burned many of the houses and thrashed "aiid buried alive a priest who 1 had interfered. In several places wounded Russians were tortured, drenched with petrol, shut in barns, and burned alive, 1 f' t | ''MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS; ~ 1 • -[WIPED OUT BY THE TURKS... | (Rec. July 28,.8 p.m.) V. ... ! Petrograd, July 23. j The Turkish atrocities _ against tho f Armenians battle description. The . whole male population in tho Bitlis rex gion have been massacred. The Turks ■ . then collected :iino thousand women and i children in the surrounding villages and 1 herded tliem in Bitlis for two days! f Later they drove them towards the s Tigris, whore they shot tho whole lot -i . and threw t-he > bodies into tho river.. fc The Turks similarly cut the throats' of 1 a thousand Armenians on the banks oS 1 the Euphrates. Four Turkish battalions from Greebed f marched to the valley of Musch, where j they aro now massacring twefco thou- . ] sarid Armenians, who are resisting, but owing to the lack of amntunition they, o are sure to he exterminated. All the Armenians iii tho Diarbekr re« t gion havo been killed. b ~—: '