Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 22 November 1894, Page 2

Foreign.

During the atrocities committed in Armenia by the Turks, fearful scenes were witnessed. The Turkish soldiers imprisoned 60 girls in a church, and after outraging their hapless victims, butchered them.

Their blood poured oufc in a stream under the doors of the building. Victims in other places were beheaded. Some of them were burned alive > in their own houses. The Porte apologises for alleging that the British Consul at Van incited the Armenians to revolt, and promises to make full enquiries into the outrage. The corpses slaughtered by the Turks in Armenia lie unbiiried, and cholera is following in the wake of the massacre. Those who managed to escape crossed into Russian territory «by secret paths. , ; The concluding ceremony of the -^ Czar's funeral took place on Monday. It was an imposing funotion, conducted on an enormous wale. The Imperial insignia and regalia alone required 16 coaches to carry them. Among the- Royal personage! present were the Kings of Denmark, Greece and Servia, the Princes of Wales, Naples and Montenegro, Prince Henry of Prussia, and the Dukes of York and Coburg< Fifty thousand people waited through a whole night in order to view the corpse of the late Czar before it was consigned to its final resting-place. ; The Czar Nicholas declined to receive a Bulgarian deputation to his father's funeral. ; The Prince- of Wales and the other Royalties now remain in $t. Petersburg until the marriage Of the Czar Nicholas on Monday. The new Czar will order the release of a number oi criminals/ as a mark of clemency on his ascending the throne.