Show DEATH SULKS THE LAND evidence that the gassoun butchery was carefully planned orders were sent from constantinople for foi the massacre of the inhabitants 0 of millikan Mol likan christians of van threatened with death A correspondent front from armenia varites that the gassoun murders it would appear was one of 0 the most care carefully fulli planned outrages in history the evidence of this Is circumstantial only but it Is alleged to be none the less conclusive during tile the months of june jun e july and august preceding the sass gassoun oun massacre the kurdish chiefs in the country surrounding the gassoun region and particularly the districts in the south and southwest were apparently unusually busy in gathering up the scattered warriors of their tribes tor for an invasion of the gassoun region in july and august enor enormous quantities of petroleum were shipped from Erze Erzer roum ourn and moush this petroleum was shipped from russia to Erze roum and so BO great was the quantity brought over the mountain roads that it was a subject of remark to very many persons for a time it looked as though nothing went over the roads ads between Erze Erzer roum ourn and moush but petroleum now it la Is a fact that moush does not use a great quantity of petroleum herself nor do her merchants sell much of it to the surrounding country in the villages candles candies of sheep fat oil are used for lights what moush wanted with those countless cans ot of petroleum was it a mystery but the mystery was a mystery no longer after the gassoun massacre tor for the petroleum was used to burn the houses of the gassoun villages and to cremate the bodies of the wr wretched etched villagers who fell victims to the awful butchery in burning the houses the th petroleum was thrown upon the woodwork in generous quantities and tiet on fire BURNED ALIVE in cremating the dead the bodies were in many cases placed between layers of wood and built up into a sort of funeral pile the entire mass was then saturated with petroleum urn and set on anre itla charged that living men were cremated in the same way but this was a merciful way of putting the unfortunate creatures to death in comparison with the tortures inflicted upon many others the massing of troops near the sas boun region and particularly at moush aloush was carried on for some time before the beginning of the massacre in order that everything might be in readiness ea diness according to the pro gramme said to hut acen made out at constantinople stantin ople ORDERS r ROM FROM constantinople several weeks after me gassoun was I 1 sacre it Is claimed orders were sent from the palace at constantinople for the massacre of the inhabitants of mol likan a district lying to the south and southeast of gassoun Sas soun but when it was seen that an investigation of the massacre at gassoun was inevitable the order it Is said was recalled and mol likan was not molested except in the ordinary course ot of the persecution general in ili all parts of armenia in the city of van at this moment there are BOO young men sworn to give themselves as a sacrifice sar to turkish butchery in the hope that the attention of england may be more strongly called to the desperate situation of 0 their people the armenians Armen ians cannot accept any scheme ot of reform which does not have tor for its fundamental principles the absolute control ot of european powers unless europe controls the reforms there will be a massacre ot of christians in ili the city within three months the armenians Armen ians themselves will bring this about rather than be cast adrift by their fellow christians of the west there is no language quite adequate to a description of the real condition of armenia at present men fen are beaten robbed and murdered and women are ravished lavished ravi shed by kurds burds and turkish soldiers woe and want and despair and death stalk abroad in this beautiful land that was once a part of the garden of eden the inhabitants of van are living on the brink ot of it a massacre from day to day by the transfer from van to constantinople stantin ople of the advance guard of the armenian revolutionary movement captured in the village ol of on may the turkish government has taken a decisive lift toward quieting public excitement in the eastern part of the empire WILLIA confession the governor of van bahri pasha has haa during the week added several interesting te facts to the alleged confession of harry williams the leader of the captured band according to the governor williams has confessed that the revolutionary p party arty which sent him 1 to begin tel tl the revolution has i ln in trieste austria which will be shipped to armenia for the use of 0 the patriots at the earliest possible eunity tu lt an interesting incident of william a confession lr as made ade public by bawal bahal Is the ta fact that he ls Is not t a british britis 11 subject it at all but Is a native of the cau I 1 casus th region of 01 asia and strangely t r in I 1 elou g f h of 0 the A very y district iri in which hl ft bah bahal h ri hi himself was born th leavi ng out of consideration Ider atlon entirely t the he second revolutionary band across oder ain unde th the persian b border it Is an undeniable tact fact that the armenian situ situation aaion was never at a more critical point your correspondent yester yesterday daV met the representative of a fourth revolutionary party with agents in austria england and america the headquarters seem to be in america where a party newspaper la its published and revolutionary funds ore are collected this s agent Is a russian armenian and holds strong views on the situation the fourth revolutionary party has brought no guns to armenia nor does the agent say he has any arms hidden in the mountains the bartys principles however are of the most radical advanced sort |