Show ARMENIAN ATROCITIES FURTHER CONFIRMATION OF THE I DEVILISH DEEDS DEVII I Crimes Almost Too Horrible to IVilnk of Committed With No More Hesitancy Than n White lInn Would Breathe London March 29The Times publishes I pub-lishes a long report on the Armenian I atrocities written by a competent nnd trustworthy man who made a personal investigation on the spot This report was written in January but only arrived ar-rived in London yesterday The writer says he is convinced that both in 1893 and 1894 the Turkish government gov-ernment gave both oral and written orders to the Kurds to attack the Armenians Ar-menians promising them the booty and relieving them of responsibility for the consequences In the first attacks at-tacks made upon them the Armenians defeated the Kurds Undoubtedly but for Turkish help the Kurds would have been unable to have gained a permanent perman-ent victory The Kurds in the earlier skirmishes did not harm women and children Even when Incited by the Turks they did little in comparison with the latter The account proceeds to confirm the pit incident and the report of the governor gov-ernor of Bits reading the Sultans i decree ordering the Kurds to destroy the disaffected villages sparing nothing noth-ing for their sultan and prophet This occurred about the middle of August and the massacres which followed beggars beg-gars all description The occidentals of the nineteenth century cannot comprehend com-prehend it Youth were bound covered with brushwood and burned alive Others were hacked to pieces At Shenig a house filled with fifty men women and children was set on i fire and all were cremated Tlhe officers forced their men to acts shrank of cruelty from which the latter A young priest at Dalvoorig persuaded per-suaded seventy of this followers to i yield They were ordered to dig a trench and when enough earth had been thrown up all were hacked to i pieces and cast Into the trench i PrIest suffered horrible deaths One j was thrown into the air and allowed to I fall on a number of bayonets that had been stuck upright in the ground I A correspondent who had recently made a special investigation of the atrocities attached great Importance to I the statement of a Kurd Who killed many Innocent women and children In Sassoun I The correspondent took ithls mans deposition before respectable non Armenian witnesses and from this deposition he telegraphed the following follow-ing bloodcurdling extract The Turkish soldiers took little chi dren by the feet and dashed them against stones I saw an Armenian priest tortured by squeezing his neck rouging out his eyes and tearing off his flesh with pinchers We hate that we only stab or bayonet or cut off h ads We dislike needless pain I saw a Turkish sergeant bind an old Armenian head downward to two or three branches and slowly cut him through with an ax Armenians who implored protection and surrendered were butchered at night The Armenians were marched in their hands tied and they were then bayoneted and fun into the pit None of those were dead who were In the pit I saw the soldiers take a woman stand aroUnd her Joking and making bets as to the size of her unborn child She was then cut open and the money was paid to the scoundrel who had guessed rightly The correspondent telegraphed the details of this revolting deed tout the paper suppressed them a being too horrible for publication Continuing the Kurd said Une Kurd led people with bullets bul-lets and daggers but the Turks delighted de-lighted dn torture They put some to death with scissors cutting them and t dt wit ssor cutng < opening veins in the nek Others were sawed others had their tongues cutout cut-out eyes gouged out and several fingers fin-gers cut off before death I saw men and women thus mutilated and they lay about the camp for two hours before I be-fore ithey were killed1 |