TURKEY.
THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES. A COMMITTEE'S REPORT. Paris, Feb. 16. Le Journal publishes the American Committee's report on the Armenian aVrocities. There were 00,000 victims of exhaustion and ill-treatment who were buried. At Meskene, where the deported in> habitants from Syria and Mesopotamia were encamped, 300 bodies of women; old men, and children were thrown into one grave. Five thousand Armenians who were encamped on the banks of the Euphrates were mere skeletons and 600 orphans were crowded into on,e great shed, dyino of hungor. ° The people in other camps were fighting for food in the waste heaps. Zeki Bey, Turkey's representative, instituted terrible tortures. THE NEW GRAND VIZIER. IN A MILITA.VT MOOD. Reuter Service. Received Feb. IS, S.s p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 17. A telegram from Constantinople states that the new Grand Vizier, speaking in the Chamber; referred to the Allies, and declared their policy of thrusting the Turks out of Europe as ridiculous threats from enemies who fled from the Dardanelles astne result of defeat by a valiant enemy. He added: "We will not relinquish Constantinople as long as there is * angle Ottoman left), '?#*"» .?..-.<■■£■•"- - ,
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1917, Page 5
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