THE ADANA MASSACRES.
IIIDEOI'S ATROCITIES. ACCOUXT Ul' AX ENGLISH LADY. CHILDREN' .STARVING. Received 24, 10.20 p.m. Constantinople, May 24. Mrs. Doughty Wylie, wife of the liritish Vice-Consul at Adana, the heroine of the massacres', writes u hideous account of the atrocities. The Armenian quarters were filed with kerosene from hose. The Turks murdered children in tiiie presence of their mothers, and violated wives while their husbands weie dying. The authorities c.ontented themselves with torturing unoffending' Armenians into confession. .Measles and dys'entry are rife and the children arc without milk. Handfulls of rice and fragments of bread is the only food available.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 100, 25 May 1909, Page 2
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101THE ADANA MASSACRES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 100, 25 May 1909, Page 2
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