TURKISH AND HUN FIENDS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2527, 30 July 1915, Page 5

TURKISH AND HUN FIENDS

ATROCITIES IN ASIA MINOR i Discussed in the house op lords By Telegraph—Press 'Association-Copyright (llec. July 29, 9.40 p.m.) London, July 29. In the House of Lords, Lord Bryce .liked for confirmation of liis information.regarding the .extensive massacring of Christians in Armenia and .wholesale deportation into Central Asia Minor, and the desert part of Mesopotamia. The Turks in one district, lie ?aid, shot all the ineai and took all tile women and children. Nino thousand w6re drowned in the Tigris. Tho Turks apparently were aiming at the extermination of the Christian population. ■ Lord Cromer said .that these outrages were, attributed to recent German influence. The 'Archbishop of Canterbury, said . that he bad received appalling accounts ' of massacres on; the Turko-Persiau frontiers. The Russian occupation bappily ' was accomplishing better conditions.' •Tho Martinis ofCrewe said that the Foreign Office ill May informed the Ottoman Government that an.y of its jgents who were actually implicated in tho outrages would be held personally, responsible for the crimes, which had since ■ increased both in . number and There''had been wholesale massacres and other outrages, aiid deportations under the guise of the enforced evacuation of villages. In some cases, he said, German officials had countenanced and encouraged the crimes. The presence of the Germans in Turkey had been an unmitigated curse, to both Christians and Moslems, and there was no immediate remedy. He could only orophaticaly promise that punishment would -be meted out.