Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 68, 23 March 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

ARMENIAN ATROCITIES. DESTITUTION IN THE CAUCASUS. Times and Stdnet Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, March 22. Appalling accounts of the Condition of Armenia have been received from the Armenian Red Cross. The plain of Alashgird is covered with the bodies of men, women and children frozen in pools of their own blood. Women and children, half alive, creep from beneath the corpses and the ruins of the houses. When the Russians retreated, the Kurds shut up everybody in mosques, and killed the men after making the women and girls go through untold agonies. They stripped and stood them against the walls, whilst they selected those they wanted, placed them on horses, and took them away, those resisting being mercilessly .beaten. There are 120,000 destitute in the Caucasus.

POSITIONS REVERSED AT MEMEL GERMANS CLAIM TO HAVE RETAKEN THE TOWN. United Press Association. (Received 10.30 a.m) Amsterdam, March 22. A German official message states that the Russians were expelled from Memel after obstinate street fighting. RUSSIAN PROGRESS REPORT. United Press Association. Petrograd, March 22. Official.—Westward from the Niemen the Russian advance continues successfully. Considerable success was obtained in the Svidnik and Smolnik district. We secured the enemy’s' principal dispositions of officers and seven guns. The enemy’s attacks in the direction of Udsok and Munkach were repulsed. Near Pryemysl we captured a village. All round the forts the garrison has been driven from their line of fortifications.