| Show BRUTALITY AND LUST FURTHER STORIES OF ARMENIAN OUTRAGES beginning by Robber bo then attacking tho the churches where their victims had bad sought refuge new T york ork feb ll II the american relief relict association has received the following lo 10 ing letter from pain december r I 1 1 1 I lec rived your lutter letter of 0 november we were glad to he hear or from you you ask us to give the details of 0 the tha massacres it Is impossible to describe to you all that has happened hure here I 1 act can only clatt tho the facts L icily 0 on tuesday the turks b began egan carrying emay away our livestock from rom morning until night and we learned from them the wo we were some going to be attacked on wednesday NN ednes day mat ning at the first onslaught I 1 we ue lost ton ten or fifteen poisons I 1 fully 1000 turks and kurds burds crowded into the ton town n and it was impossible lor for I 1 us to protect it we WB tried tiled to appeal to I 1 I 1 the for protection but 1 stilled lied we wailed until evening and then daring to wait no longer loncer started tt arted tor for the cho monastery without Alt hout talons taking food I 1 the luiks h had ad lull full posses possession bion of 0 tho the town and tiro the number of 0 our alln slain cas aaa thirty in the warning morning we ua found that tha t even the mon alch life h was fil with men women and n was not safe thursday noon it a gang of turks tui ka bt uan to harn hammer mer at the heavy sheavy iron door trying to force it but we ine held out until night then they pulled the wall down next to tile the door and opened it in that way in an air hour iga women and ch children 1 I 1 d r e ri were robbed and the women among a t n i 0 n g whom were a number of brides akere brutally assaulted the cry of tho tao wonna and children chIl dien was after atter the hie turks and kinds had satisfied their beastly just they left LAO monastery then all 0 of us who waru able in order to save our lives started tor for tile the mountains mount alna with only the clothes elti thea we had on allne li our hom homes and possessions in tile the hands of 0 the turks 11 now within twenty days lay at least 00 havo have been killed among whom were inc two of our priests pr lesta six hundred homes and stores have boon been reduced to ashes bahm and the rest ot of the living have been forced to accept mohammedanism my father li killed and we are left homeless and hungry find and nill b be without I 1 a single garment barefooted we wani dered acred among amon the ruins of our desolated homes begging tor for anything to keep keel us alive bedole spring comes we must lie die unless we are helped we are arc strangers in our own town oh for gods sake send us ua succor lost lest we ne perish this Is but a little account ot of our miserable condition read it to all the armenians Armen ians that they may know our sorrows borrows are there no ChiNt lans there in america to sue sae vi us |
