Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 11, 11 September 1915, Page 5

Turkey

ARMENIAN MASSACRES. DIABOLICAL TURKISH CRUELTY. WHOLE VILLAGE EXTERMINATED.

United Press Association

London, September 9

The Daily Telegraph’s Mitylene correspondent reports horrible details of the Turkish-fixed policy of exterminating the Armenian population. A village of two thousand homes, exclusively Armenian, was exterminated with diabolical cruelty. A squad of gendarmes first sent an order to the inhabitants to evacuate the town, but the Armenians remained. Two hundred soldiers followed to compel obedience, but the Armenians resisted, and fought and defeated the soldiers, who fled. Five battalions next arrived with machine-guns, established a cordon round the village, and sent in incendiaries bvltli torches. The buildings were soon afire, in a brisk breeze, and the miserable inhabitants, men. women, and children, were burnt alive. Those endeavouring to escape were shot, and only four escaped. The Turkish, method throughout the villages is one of separating the men. compelling the young ones to fight, selling the young women to sending the old men, women, and children to the uninhabited interior, where they are left to a slow' death from hunger and exposure. When an appeal was made to the German officials at Constantinople, the answer was that they could not interfere, adding; “After all, it’s war.” DISCONTENTED CONSTANTINOPLE. ... , United Press Association. ' Paris’, September 10. There is increasing discontent amongst the officials in Constantinople. The sheiks of Alislam have resigned. The perfect of Stamboul, under threat of death, was compelled to withdraw his resignation, which ;. i , k . j / he tendered because he disapproved of the corrupt use of £300.000, proceeds of a forced sale of goods commandeered from-Greek merchants. , A Corfu telegram says that after thirty-five insurgents had been executed at Durazzo, Enver Pasha, yielding to the prayers of his wife, \ spared the I invest of fifty .other rebels. J After liaugifig tlie’relief leafier Hazzi- : fliamil. ethe executioner dragged the i body stjuqQt;.