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PLIGHT OF THE ARMENIANS. UNTOLD MISERIES AND OUTRAGES. Press Association—Copyright. United Service. (Received 12.20 p.m.) London, August 20. The Rev. Mr Buxton, secretary to the Armenian Fund, who has arrived from the devastated regions, states that originally there were two million Turkish Armenians, of whom half a million were massacred, one million were deported, two hundred thousand escaped to the mountains to Russian soil, hundreds of thousands were interned in Mesopotamia. They were inaccessible to British relief and were suffering untold miseries, privations, outrage, and murder. Numbers were forced to labor on the Bagdad railway.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 21 August 1916, Page 5
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96Turkey Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 21 August 1916, Page 5
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