ARMENIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1916, Page 5

ARMENIA.

A PITEOUS TALE. HORROR UPON HORROR. PERPETRATED BY HUN AND TURK. Received Jan. 5, 5.5 pan. London, Jan. 4. The Times correspondent at Cairo states that one of the American Women Relief Workers describes further Armenian atrocities. Five thousand refugees started for Aleppo, including refined University women and ablebodied men. They were wilfully drowned whilst fording a stream. Others were stripped and beaten and starved. Only 213 arrived at Kharput.

Girls at Marash suffered worse than death. The German Orphanage at Marash contained one thousand girls, whom the headmistress was ordered to hand over to the Turks, She refused, whereupon the German Consul telegraphed, "You are hiding the girls; give them up." | She obeyed, with the result that the girls were delivered to the Turks with horrible results. The father of the headmistress went to Constantinople to protest, but the Ambassador refused him an interview, and the Embassador's staff said: "Mind your own business." An American woman obtained permission to feed other girl refugees, when a gendarme suddenly began striking her. This was due to the approach of German officers, who rode her down, badly bruised her, and then turned to the gendarmes and sand, "Whip this crowd." A neutral at the Residenoy at Constantinople protested against the refugees being tortured by being refuged water, and asked permission to send food to where four hundred were dying daily. He was informed, "That ia nonsense. What do you think we are sending them out for."