AWFUL ATROCITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1555, 11 September 1905, Page 2

AWFUL ATROCITIES.

MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS. ARMENIANS ROUT GUNNERS WITH BOILING OIL. WHOLESALE MURDER AND DESOLATION.

By telegraph-! Press Ass’n,, Copyright

Received 4.19 p.m., Sept. 10. St. Petersburg, Sept. 9. Thousands of Armenians and workers seized the hospital at Balakhany. They ignored tho summons to surrender and killed a gunner. The troops opened fire with their guns. They sent a shell crushing into the hospital, killing many inside. Tho Armenianß quitted cover, and assailing tho gunners with boiling oil, they captured tbe guns. Under oover of the emoko they repelled the Cossacks. Infantry approaching, recaptured the guns. All Britishers at Baku are safe aboard steamers, but four who wero foodless and waterless were surrounded by Tartars at Balakhany, and it is feared have porished in the flames. Partial paoification of the'outbreak at Baku has been effected. Reinforcements have arrivod, also a supply of bread. Reinforcements have been BBDt to Shuska.

Despite reassuring official messages, private telegrams report a wholesale massacre of Armenians.

Four hundred were hemmed in a courtyard in a suburb of Baku. They sent a frantic request to the Governor for assistance. None was forthcoming, and all were killed by Tartara and troops. In the villages of Duduktohu, Achilla, Akburaes, and Oharmantabi, in the Government of Elisabetbpol, a large porpor* tion of the inhabitants were put to death. The rest fled. All the houses wero plundered and burnt. Thousands of Tartars are besieging Armenians at Zabrata.