ARMENIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1915, Page 5

ARMENIA.

TURKISH ATROCITIES. A STORY OF HORRORS. A MILLION VICTIMS. London, Dec. 15. I-orcl Brycc, in a letter to tli« Daily Telegraph, says that a competent authority estimates that a million Armenians hae perished. Further details show that fie thousand were literally driven under the lash. Awful cases of pillage, murder, outrage, starvation, and girlstealing are reported. In one case two hundred Armenians were taken in trucks to i» river bank and each truck load was shot. All the Armenian 'men were half-stripped, tied together, and taken away. The women and girls were distributed in Turkish villages, the Turks scrutinising ami choosing whom they wanted. A wealthy resident saw his wife and three daughters taken away, and ' becaßw a raving lunatic. An eye-witness says lie counted twenty-one women and children in hospital lying on the floor from sheer exhaustion. Three children were moribund and half the remainder were likely to die. Two children were forcibly separated f'.'om their mother, and one was left to lie on the damp ground and died. The mother strayed on to the railway and her leg was partially amputated. The mother is now demented. The sufferings of the people are too horrible and awful to describe.