The Armenian Horrors.

Manawatu Herald, 1 June 1895, Page 2

The Armenian Horrors.

Th§ correspondent of the London | Daily -News has heard from a Turkish soldier a very full report of scenes in which he took part* Tba following are one or two of his replies : — "I then overheard his own friend say, • And how many did you kill ?' And he whispered back, " God knows. It may have been five, it may have been seven. What could Ido ? I had my orders.' This was not said to me, and was not even meant for my eyes." Asked whether many children were among the slaughtered, he replied that the soldiers raised infants on their bbaronets} r onets as one lifts the sheaves of corn on the pitohfork, and flung them thu3 into the ravine as one tosses hay on to the waggon. Asked whether the soldiers liked this hideous work, he groaned and rolled his head from side to side for a while before replying. Finally he said, with a despairing shrug of the shoulders, " We were soldiers ; what could we do ?" He added that if any of them hung back, the Bey menaced them with his sword and revolver. He gave thanks to God, he said, that he had himself killed no children. He was under the orders of a certain Bey who is a Cretan. It may be here remarked that Lord Salisbury has assumed the responsibility.