Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 38, 12 September 1916, Page 5

Turkey

ARMENIAN MISERY. AWFUL SUFFERINGS DESCRIBED 1 Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 8.50 a.in.) Now York, September 11. A Presbyterian missionary in northern. Arabia, in a despatch, describes the awful sufferings of the Armenians. At Meskeno he saw women and children throw themselves into the trenches and bog the grave-diggers to bury them. At Hama lie saw seven thousand deportees, of whom tines' thousand were naked, living " ith locusts and dogs. Men slig theii graves while awaiting death. He often saw whole rows of ghastly forms rise out of tho graves and hog for bread and water. The number starving at Hama, Rekka, and Meskene exeoods thirty thousand. Cases were reported of fighting occurring over the bodies of the dying in order to obtain fresh food.

MORE CRUELTIES' FEARED. Press Association —Copyright. Renter’s Teleir ranis (Received 9.15. a.in.) Constantinople, September 11. It is announced that the Armenian population are to he removed to other parts of the Turkish Umpire owing to the spread V the revolutionary movement. Tliis. it is feared, points to fresh cruellies.