HUNDREDS OF MULTILATED BODIES THROWN IN A PIT.
(Per Pi'ohh AHfiociation.) Conhtantinoi'm-:, February 26. The Kurdish chief CliefUcn terrorised fcho Armcuians in Conoroa. His followed devastated tlio villages, outraged the women and demolished tho convent in Nichau. LonI) n, February 27. Tho special correspondent of tho Daily Telegraph confirms in every detail tho accounts previously published of tho Armoinan horrors. He says the Turkish soldiers worked day and night iv order to removo fcmcoK of tho massacre before tho arrival of the Commission. Hundreds of mutilated bodies were thrown into a pit and lighted petroleum poured on them, but as this course did not prove successful m wiping out the traces of tho outrages, the limbs were afterwards taken out and buried piecemeal. Some three hundred and sixty witnesses, who would probably have given evidence before the Commission, relying on the promise of safety made by the Turkish Commander, were murdered in cold blood. The correspondent describes the whole affair as one long and hideous tale of devilish atrocities on men and women.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 205, 28 February 1895, Page 2
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