Show NUMBER MASSACRED ED BY THE TURKS IN ASIA MINOR BEYOND ESTIMATE L From Beirut Comes News New of t Atrocities Misery and Despair Foreign Warships Unable Un ble to Quell Disorders Dis a Beirut April 25 The situation In tic TUrkey Burkey hn ke Is ts extremely serious many thousands Dds have Ileen mas cannot even be lie je estimated be because because because cause the disturbances have been so widespread that it Is impossible to se secure secure secure cure details d t of the happenings The latest estimates of the number killed In the of Adana reaches approximately and thousands have been killed In the towns of other districts The state of sege siege at several of the places has brought the Inhabit Inhabitants Inhabitants Inhabitants ants near starvation and each day brings its tales of further atrocities nd the depths of misery and despair to which the savagery of the fanatics has brought the people Foreign Marines Landed Several warships are now In these waters wate but the disorders are so fur far reaching that the efforts of the powers to restore normal conditions have as asyet asyet asyet yet hardly been felt The French cruisers cruisers sers Jules Tules Ferry arrived today and left almost almos immediately for where swarms of refugees ore are pouring In British French and German Germin warships are at other oth r ports and marines have hae been landed to quell the disorders at atthe atthe atthe the more important points One of the missionaries at Alexan dretta Mr Kennedy with Turkish troops troop has haR gone to the relief of Deur tal tat an Armenian village on the coast const where people pei within the walls are besieged by b immense bands of Kurds and Only two days Jays ago a British warship returned from that place the governor of the district di hav hv having ing InS refused the commander permission to land laud a relief relle party perty Water Vater Supply Cut Off The water supply has been cut off from the town and the besieged bes ged are a suffering greatly gr atly The children are drinking out of or animal tracks after a shower There was Incessant tiring firing on Greek subjects sent under an escort yesterday The Armenian villa of Kes ab has been burned AH Alt the men and many man women and children have been slain The American property at was destroyed Miss Chambers an Amer American AmerIcan Amerlean ican lean missionary is safe safeA safEA A British warship has been ordered from to where wl ere conditions have become worse forse All the property of the Christians ns at has been n destroyed destro ed The total loss Is Unknown but It will be enor enormous enormous motIs Reports state that Hadjin in inthe Inthe Inthe the et of Adana Is on fire There Thero are five American Amerl n women quartered here including Miss Mis Lambert who had been sending out appeals for help Miss Virginia A Billings and Miss Bowman The authorities have refused permission to Lawson Law on and Chambers also American missionaries to go to their relief Frantic appeals for protection and for Cor food are ComIng in from all sections |