Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-18 | Page 11 | Armenians Victims of Turk Atrocities

ARMENIANS VICTIMS OF TURK ATROCITIES Sacks Filled With Children Thrown Into the Sea; Old Men and Women Crucified. A.MSTKKHAM, March IT. While the Turkish semi-official news agency is telegraphing tel-egraphing abroad reports of alleged atrocities committed by bands of Armenians, Ar-menians, the Armenian correspondence bureau at The Hague declares that the re-entry of the Turks into Trehizond. ;fipital of the Vilayet of the same name in Asia Minor, watf marked by fresh acts f savagery and rioting. The plan was to leave no Armenian alive in the rcoc-eupied rcoc-eupied territory. According to news reaching the bureau from its Balkan agency, thousands of Russian stragglers, captured by Turkish cavalry, were shot, drowned or burned to death. The Armenians were subjected to in-""scribable in-""scribable tortures. Sacks tilled with ''lllldren were thrown into the sea. old ; women and men were crucified or imui!-: imui!-: ated. and all young women and girls were handed over to the Turks.