TURKISH FIENDS IN ARMENIA
'A WAR OF EXTERMINATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, September 9. Tho "Daily Telegraph's" Mitylene correspondent gives horrible details of the Turkish fixed policy of exterminating the Armenian population. A village of two thousand homes, exclusively Armenian, was exterminated with diabolical cruelty by a squad of gendarmes, who first were sent to order the inhabitants to evacuate. The Armenians remained, so two hundred soldiers followed to compel obedience. The Armenians resisted, and foughtaiid defeated the soldiers, who fled. Five battalions next arrived, with' ma-chine-guns, and established a cordon vound the village. They sent in incendiaries, with torches, and the buildings were soon in a conflagration, which was fanned, by a brisk breeze. The miserable inhabitants, men, women, and children were burnt .alive, while those endeavouring to escape were shot. Only four escaped. Tho Turkish method throughout the villages has been to separate the men, compelling the young to fight, selling the young women to the harems, and sending the old men, women, and children to the uninhabited interior, where they are loft to slow death from hunger and exposure.
When-an _ appeal was made to the German- officials at Constantinople, they answered that they could not interfere. -"After all," they, said, "it's war."- . '
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2564, 11 September 1915, Page 6
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205TURKISH FIENDS IN ARMENIA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2564, 11 September 1915, Page 6
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