The Armenian Outrages.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 186, 6 February 1895, Page 2

The Armenian Outrages.

HORRIBLE BARBARITES. I Per 'Frisco Mail Steamer at Auckland j Despatches from Tifiis (Transcaucasia) during December mention the frightful atrocities in Armenia After the offerings of peace, 60 young Armenian men were seized and tortured horribly for three days, then all were killed, and their bodies thrown into a ditch. Among the Armenian heroes who lost their lives in the fighting, letters mention Derbredoz, who with his own hand killed seven Kurds in a fair fight. lie was captured and flayed to the waist, pieces of his flesh being cooked and eaten by the savnge Turk?, while he was yet alive. A letter from Armenia was published in the Cologne Gazette of December 17th telling of fresh horrors there, including 23 villages laid in ashes, 11 other villages pillaged, and 40 priests massacred. The Turkish garrisons at Erzeroum, Trasa, Van Figrunocerta, Babert and Moosh, altogether about 60,000 were sent against the Armenian commanders of these trosps, and announced to the villagers, " We are ordered to put you to the sword for openly defying the Government." The attack began on August 18th. The Turks were repulsed in the first instance. The massacre begin on September sth. Those Armenians who submitted unconditionally were bound to stakes and then their limbs were cut off with saws. In other cases the victims were disembowelled and their eyes gouged put. Children were thrown into boiling oil, and women were tortured and burned to i death j The troops plundered and burned churches. Among those who witnessed tho atrocities was a Spaniard named Fimcnss The Turkish authorities approached him, and offered him large bribes to in- I duce him to deny to English papers the truth of the report of the outrages, and also sought to bribe him to go to England for the purpose of delivering lectures on Armenia, in which he was to dwell upon the contented condition of Armenia. He rejected the offers made to him.