HORRIBLE ATROCITIES BY KHURDS.
:!Welearn from private correspondence frpmiUrumiah that, amongst other enormities of their, inroads upon that city and district, the Khurds have carried off fifteen women belonging to the Nestorian community of Christians. They are further described as having devastated and burnt'nearly 200 villages, in which Christians and Turks were indiscrirai-j 'tiat^y destroyed; the children especially: being in many instances cast into the "iaines after having been tortured. The .Persian troops acting against the 100,000 'Kaurdish -freebooters under Sheik Abdullah; number only about 20,000 m^n, | /and. j'in order to achieve success must exhibit an extraordinary superiority to theit; barbarous foes in tactics and discipline. , The correspondent adds that the British Government intends to institute a vice-consulate at Urumiah. * It is also reported that the Teheran army has destroyed the town of Ucbni, ahd'killed all the inhabitants. It after, wards attacked and defeated Abdul j Kader, with 12 000 men, at Mergewar. Sheik 1 Abdulja is at Notcha, organising a force for another attack in the spring. Sheik_SftdA^ek is dead.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3791, 21 February 1881, Page 3
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171HORRIBLE ATROCITIES BY KHURDS. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3791, 21 February 1881, Page 3
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