The Armenian Atrocities.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 162, 8 January 1895, Page 2

The Armenian Atrocities.

DETAILS OF THE MASSACRE. Mr G. Hagopian, chairman of the Armenian Patriotic Association, has sent Lord Kimberley the following ' letter, along with a memorial begging that Armenia should be given a new administration worked under the immediate supervision of the Berlin Treaty Powerß : —No compassion was shown to age or sex, even by the regular soldiery not even when their victims fell suppliant at their feet. Six to ten thousand met such a fate as even the darkest ages of darkened Africa have hardly witnessed, for there women and tender babes might have at lea&t the chance of a life of slavery, while here womanhood and innocency were but a cruel mockery before the cruel lust had ended its debauch by stabbing to death with the bayonet, while tender babes were impaled with tbe same weapon on their dead mothers' breasts, or perhaps seized by the hair to have the head lopped off by the sword. In one place throe or four hundred women, after being forced to serve the vile purposes of a merciless eoldiery, were hacked to pieces by sword and bayonet in a valley below. In another place some 200, weeping and wailing, begged for compassion, falling at the commander's feet, but the bloodthirsty wretch, after ordering their violation, directed the soldiers to despatch them in a similar way. In another place some 60 young brides and more attractive girls were crowded into a church, and after violation were slaughtered, and human gore was seen flowing from the church door. In another place a large company, under the lead of their priest, fell down before them begging compassion, averring that they had nothing to do with the culprits, but all to no purpose — all were killed. In another place proposition was made to several of the more attractive women to change their faith, in which case their lives might be spared. " Why should we deny Christ?" They say " we are no more than these," pointing to the mangled forms of their husbands and brothers before them, " kill us too "—and they did. Great effort was made to save one, the beauty, but three or four quarrelled over her, and she sank down like her sisters. But why prolong the sickening tale ? There must be a God in Heaven who will do right in all these matters, or some of us would lose faith. __ (Per Press Association). London, January 7. Further details of the massacre in Armenia states that Turkish soldiery put out the eyes of Armenian priests with hot irons and compelled them to dance, which they did, at the same time praising God. It is asserted others were flayed