Show DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR Mother and Daughter Forfeit Their Lives in Armenia SEATTLE Wash June 6lly mother and sister forfeited their lives to save their honor writes an Armenian Arme-nian of this city After visiting Pa Ion formerly a city of 50000 people but which by the Turkish butcheries has been reduced to about 300 souls inquest in-quest of his mother and sister the writer says that he found that after having been stolen by the Turks the two women had thrown themselves in i a river and drowned themselves The writer continued Little the people of a peaceful nation realize the terrible privations the Armenians 1 Arme-nians are subjected to Being the weakest weak-est of the many tribes in Turkey and the especial butt of Turkish savages every mans hand is turned against them They eternally sleep over a slumbering volcano They know not at what moment their houses will be pillaged their stores looted and their wives daughters and sisters dishonored I dishonor-ed |