Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 33, 7 October 1915, Page 6

Great Britain

ARMENIAN ATROCITIES DIS- , ■ • CUSSED. 800,000 DESTROYED SINCE MAY. United Press Association. (Received 1.5 p.m.') London, Oci'oei- (b Viscount Croner in the House of Lords asked whether tlie Government had official information that the German consular officials were privy to the massacre of the Armenians. He added that one of the objects of the war was that Armenia should no longer constitute a Turkish ,shambles. Turkey made government hy massacre part of their political system. The Marquis of Crewe, in reply, stated that the Government had received s information that tho population of one district had hoen absolutely exterminated but. had no official confirmation that German consuls encouraged the horrors, : “Hut T am hound to state that knowing what has happened elsewhere it could not.” lie said, ‘‘he an antecedent improbability that siieji was the ease.” isobunt Bryce Jsaid that from figures wliich lie received it was quite possible that eight liundml thousand had been destroyed since May. . Tho only chance to save the remnant was by neutrals exerting influence in Germany. ► -