ARMENIAN ATROCITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2662, 6 January 1916, Page 6

ARMENIAN ATROCITIES

A RELIEF WORKER'S STORY Association—Copyright ('-'Tunes ' and Sydney "Sun" Services.) • (Ree. January 5, 5.5 p.mi) . . London, January 4. The "Times", correspondent at Cairo, states that an American woman, engaged as. a relief worker, describes further Armenian atrocities. She says that five thousand started from Aleppo, including defined university women and able-bodied men, and were wilfully drowned whilst fording 'a - . stream: Others were strapped, beaten and starved, and only 213 arrived at Kharput. Girls at Marash' suffered 'worse than death. ' - The German orphanage at Marash contained a thousand girls and the headmistress was ordered to hand them oyer to the Turks, but .she-refused. 1 ■The German Consul telegraphed :• "You are hiding the girls ;• give them ■up." She obeyed, with the result that the girls were delivered to tho Turks Rnd suffered, horribly. Tho father of the headmistress went to Constantinople with tho view of pro-' testing to the Ambassador, but was refused an interview. The staff said: '"Mind your ov.n business." An American woman. obtained permission to feed other girl refugees. The gendarmes suddenly began striking her, due to the approach of German officers, who rode her : down . and badly i bruised her, ; They then turned;.to;the gendarmes and said: "Whip this crowd." . "V.. A neutral resident in Constantinople protested that the refugees were being torttiringly refused water and asked permission to send food to where there were four hundred . dying daily.- The answer lie got was: "Nonsense, what do you think we are sending them out I for?"

WAR PENSIONS COMMITTEE PRINCE OF Wj\T,ES APPOINTED CHAIRMAN. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright London,' January 4. Mr. Afquirk has announced that tho Prince of Wales has been appointed chairman of the War Pensions Statutory Committee.