Persia
APPALLTXG CONDITIONS,
MURDER AND MASRACRK
Received March 20, 7.20 p.m. London, Marcli 29.
A Tim's message says:—Xorth-west Persia is in an appalling condition. Turks and Kurds are massacring Assyrians and Christians. Dr. Packard, of the 'l'rosbyterian Hoard's Foreign Mission, underwent great personal risk in unfurling the American flag, but saved three thousand Assyrians. At Geroglapa all except two hundred were burned in a church. Many sought the protection of the mission station at Urumiah, where seventy Turkish regulars hanged the orthodox bishop, and four ef the clergy. Six refugees wore dragged into ■ the French mission station and executed, I despite the tearful pleas of the nuns. Gnlphason was the last of 103 villages devastated by the Kurds, who marched the males tied in groups of five to the graveyards, where all were barbarously murdered, and the young women were enslaved. Twelve thousand Assyrians are taking refuge in the Caucasus, in all, twenty thousand were dead and missing.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 249, 30 March 1915, Page 5
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158Persia Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 249, 30 March 1915, Page 5
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