HORRIBLE ATROCITIES IN ARMENIA.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 122, 19 November 1894, Page 2

HORRIBLE ATROCITIES IN ARMENIA.

* , I rHOUSANDS OF PEOPLE KILLED. I 25 VILLAGES DESTROYED. ! 1 900 WOMEN HACKED TO PIECES. 1 (Per Press Association) c Constantinople, Nov. 17. t Atrocities have been committed in i Armenia owing to the refusal of the 1 people to pay taxes. ' The Turkish troops fired on the 1 peoplo, killing thousands and destroying 1 twenty five villages. 1 The Turkish commander accuses the 1 British Consul at Van, who reported I the massacre, of having incited the i populace to revolt. . . . ' The Armenian Patriotic Association is i sending a memorial to Earl Kimberly, i British Secretary of Stato for the < Foreign Department, urging that Berlin i signatories should replace the Turkish i regime. 1 The details of tho atrocities are 1 appalling, and it is alleged that the 1 Turkish Government directly instigated < violence. 1 From six to ten thousand were * slaughtered, regardless of age or sex. i Nine hundred women after being outraged were hacked to pieces. 1 The Armenian press declare that some '. of the most attractive women were * offered their lives if they adjured the i faith, but they declined and were killed, i The authorities here declare that the 1 Armenian brigands with insurgent Kurds : outraged Mussulmen and Christians, and i that it was only by the means of regulars that order was restored.