Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-29 | Page 16 | Armenians Slain by Sultan's Soldiers

Armenians Slain by Sultan's Soldiers Forty-Three Villages Are Destroyed and the Inhabitants Massacred by tho Turks. PARIS. May 2S. The Government's advices containing the details of the Armenian massacres arc not yet definite, but tho oftlclal view is that the depredations are very grave. Deputy dc Pressen7. (Socialist), who has confidential relations' with the Foreign office, has received a telegram from Baku saying the Turkish forces operating against the Armenians consisted con-sisted of 12.000 regulars and 16,000 Kurds, with fifteen guns. The dispatch further assorts that forty-three villages were burned and that the inhabitants were killed. The male Armenians arc said to have made a desperate resistance on the summit of Mount Antok. M. de Presscnz has forwarded tho dispatch to Foreign Minister Dclcasso, with a letter announcing that he will question the Minister in the Chamber of Deputies concerning "what steps French diplomacy Intends to take to put a atop to this lamentable crime." The officials believe that M. de Pres-senz's Pres-senz's dispatch correctly states the devastation tho Turks have wrought.