ARMENIAN HORRORS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 April 1919, Page 5

ARMENIAN HORRORS.

MASSACRES BY TtJRKS. 1,500,000 VlOthms • . ■l, the Petit Parisian publUhrfM shocking detail brotigtot tp light by an inquiry into the" Arinenia'n ma«4crt», k-' Which establishes th%t tto vittlte of W Turkish brutality numbered «no fewer it thfth a million and k-Wf,' °k' Th# newspaper giwe an ac'ftcttrft 0f... '- numerous atrocities, a JrttttioulatW- hor- "< ' riMe case being that in whiMi* 1,000 c wotrton, who weft; siisjieeted of Wvlh}{ f" ■ cnncfeaied jewellery by BwfettoWlnjr,' it, Wets saturated with petW and' A burnt, the cinders being passed tnWtogh J ■ a aicVe in order that the aVWulous % ' Turks might recdver the jewels,, t At <sfte place 7.000 children from hteer, and 100 women welrJf Joilt. 51 ?: en and thrown half-dead into d'ijt&w, * which they themselves had been intfde to • diff. j.". At Enftroum twenty children Hrerw J' Wvled alive. German oftleers (Staged * the mwacfe of I.Son nercons at Kefnan, » The f>itit If'ariiiefi'n deman d the MHtrlne 6f "Talnat P4sKa3§t EttVer Pasha, And Diewsl Pasha, as well ® fts of tt>4 General Linrhan von Sanders, who are all. ho declares, .re- I■' sponsible for theie ihoirors. Information obtained in authoritktivo cltcleS !n London indicates that tha li| Turkish spolintion of Armenian terri-' .-J; totv and the cruel treatment of iU in«j X' habitants continue. flreat of railway and buildimr mAterteK hfitise- 11 Mid goods, fnod«tufls. and cotton are >' being taken hv Turkish troops ftom i" AleXandronol for dispatch apparently to : % Kara and thence into Turkev, tmriiensa quantities of cotton arid grain are awaiting ent.rainment between Alexan-' •" dropol and ETivnn. According to their., officers, the Turks are making one final effort against the Armenian', and from this part of Arnrehia 7 OPO.OOG poodr (about 120,000 tons! of wheat, 200,000' •hoods (about .12,000 tons') of cot ton, j ;■ household goods, vast mirther* of tbn{: population, and every k'nd of transport! were boing taken. Whenever |it wa*l| foulid impossible to transport the the Turks laffc it to deeav. anyone at-; ' tempting to remove it being threatened j with death. Among reesnt ontragea, f ■ numerous children, froih three to twelve | v«ars of age,' have been Violated. Many! Armenians have been found exhausted J *?WJ violent flocking, and near Kara ' Kilissa the remains of mots than sixty women and children have been dis- .• covered. The most fiendish horror* ' have been "perpetrated on tbe unfarlft- ■! nate population bv the Turkish soldiery.