THE ARMENIAN HORRORS
QUESTION Iff THE HOUSE<OF LORDS
Br Tclejraph—Press Areociatlon—Conjrriilil London, Ocober 6 1 Lord Cromer, speaking m the House of, Lords; asked whether ? the Government had official information that German Consular officials were ft - ivy to tl'e massacre of Armenians. He ..died that one of .the objects of the war was that Armenia should no longer constitute a Turkish, ehambles., Turkey,.►.ad n-oda government' by. massacre part of; its political .system. .■ : f Lord Orewe, in'reply, 'said that the .Government had received ' information that:the population of one,,district lad been absolutely exterminated.' It had no official confirmation of theieport that German Consuls had encouraged' the horrors,, but ho. was bound to state, knowing what had happened elsewhere, tHat there could not 'be laid to bo any antecedent improbability that such was the case.
• Lord Bryce said tliat, from figures lie had received, it was. quite possible that 800,000rhad been destroyed since May. The only chance to save the remnant was-by.,neutrals .exerting their influence upon Germany.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2587, 8 October 1915, Page 5
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164THE ARMENIAN HORRORS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2587, 8 October 1915, Page 5
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