In Armenia

Taranaki Daily News, 30 July 1915, Page 5

In Armenia

FRIGHTFUL ATROCITIES. ATTnimTKi) to ceiulw- i\TirEXCE. lieceived duly 2fl, 0.30 pin. London. July 2. ! l In tiie ITouse of Lords, Mir. Jirv'cc a-ik-od for eonliriuatir/n of his information ot oMtensivc ma--a.'ri, w of Christians in Aiin.'iiai., and wholesale deportations "Mo the Central Asia Minor desert. In parts of Mesopotamia the Turks in < lm . diMlr.ot .'hot all the me,, an ,l took all the women and the children. Nine thousand hail been drowned in the Ti Rris and the Turks, apparently, were ••Hieing at the extermination of the i'UMJa.ii population. I.oid Cromer said it was attributable to reeent fienuan influence. The Ar.hbishop o.f Carfitr-ohury liad received appalling accounts of' the massacres on the Turkic)d'ereian. frontiers, but the liiissia.n occupation was, luippijv bet'••r'nfi matters.

Tile Marquis of Crewe said the Foreign Olliee in May informed the Ottoman Oovernment agents actually implicated that, they would lie ilie'd'perron[illy responsib'e. The crime* had si„,. ( , incieaised. both in inuiilbcr a.nd atio.iity. Wholesale nwiiwacres a,nd other outraneV and deportations tinder the guise of"enforfed evacuation of villages, had occurred, and in some eases C.orman officii.ls had countenanced and oneoura«ed cn.nrc.s-. The presence of flennans in lurkcy had been an uiimilinaited curse to Ixith Chris-tains and MWloms. There was no immediate remedy, but we could only emphatically promise 'punishment