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[ United Press Association.] (By Electric Telegraph.-Copjrishff,
THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES, l
(Received, February 28,1 a Jj| London, February m, A special correspondent of the [Daily Telegraph confirms in every detail the account previously published of the Armenian horrors.
Ho says tho Turkish soldiers ~ worked day and night in order to remove the traces of the massacre before the arrival of the Onmmis. sion.
Hundreds of mutilated bodies were thrown into a pit and lighted petroleum poured on them, but as this course did not prove successful in wiping out the traces of the outrage, the limbs were afterwards taken out and buried piecemeal. Some 360 witnesses who would probably have given evidence beforo the Commission, and who relied on the promise of safety mado by the Turkish commandor, wore murdered in cold blood,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4963, 28 February 1895, Page 2
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