UNHAPPY ARMENIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1915, Page 4

UNHAPPY ARMENIA.

MURDEU AN I) TORTURE. GHASTLY DETAILS. Athens, August 1. Ghastly detail, are l 0 hand about the Armenian massacres. Six hundred Armenians at Marsovan were accused of concealing arms, anil were marched out>;idc tin: town. They offered to give up their arms, which tliey had retained i'or self-defence, and while n small party were allowed to return to .show wlicre the arms were concealed, the rest were Several Greeks at. Marsovan were compelled to dig a treiKh as their grave bt lore being shot. The Greek women wire given the alternatives of embracing Islam, or death. They refused to change their religions, and their lives were spared, lmt they were left to ihe mercy of the soldiers. T'hey were compelled to accompany the troops on a lons;' march, and some, became exhausted ami were abandoned with their babies. A German orphanage sent an ambulance to re\?ue the survivors who wore lying on J lie, roadsides, Owing to a discovery of bombs at Marsovan thousands of innocents have been tortured throughout Armenia, with a view lo compelling them lo give nji explosives. Twenty men wei'e hcuieti to dentil at llardesagli, and there lmvc been nameless torturing* at Baghcliedik.