TURKEY.
MORE ATROCITIES OS ARMENIANS. Constantinople, Sept. 11. It is announced, that the Armenian population 1 has been removed to other parts of the Turkish Empire, owing to the spread of the revolutionary movement. It' is feared this points to fresh prueltieg. New York, Sept. 11. A Presbyterian missionary in northern Arabia, in a' dispatch, describes the awful sufferings of the Armenians at Meskene. He saw wom.-n and cb'ldren throw themselves in th<- trenches and Tieg the grave-diggers to bury them. The Armenians there had no bread nor tents. At Hama he saw 7000 deported persons, of whom 3000 were naked and Irving on locusts and dogs. Men dug their graves while awaiting death.' He often saw whole rows of ghastly forms rise out of "the graves and beg bread and water. The number starving at Hama, Rekka, and Meskene exceeded 30,000. Cases were reported of them fighting over the bodies of the dying in order to obtain fresh food.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1916, Page 5
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