Persia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 26, 6 January 1916, Page 5

Persia

ARMENIAN ATROGSTBES. SHOCKING TREATMENT BY THE TURKS. Dntted Press Association. London, January 4. The Times' correspondent at Cairo states that one of the American Women Relief Workers describes further Armenian atrocities. Five thousand refugees started for Aleppo, including refined University women and ablebodied men. They were wilfully drowned whilst fording a stream. Others were stripped and beaten and starved. lOnly 213 arrived at Kharput. Girls at Marash suffered worse than death. The German Orphanage at Ma* rash contained one thousand girls, whom the headmistress was ordered to hand over to the Turks. She refused, 'whereupon the German Consul telegraphed "You are hiding the girls; give them up." She obeyed, with the result that the girls were delivered to the Turks with horrible results. | The father of the headmistress went t ( > Constantinople to protest, but the Ambassador refused him an interview, and the Ambassador's stall said. ''Mind your own business." An American woman obtained permission to feed other girl refugees, when a gendarme suddenly began striking her. This was due to the approach of German officers, who rode her down badly bruised her, and then turned to the gendarmes and said, "Whip tins I™ A neutral at the Residency at Constantinople protested against the refugees being tortured by being refused water and asked permission to semi food to where four hundred were dying daily He was informed, "That is 'nonsense. What do you think we are sending them out for." i *