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Show AWFUL DETAILS OF TURKISH BUTCHERY Women, and Girls Outraged and Mur-- Mur-- dered, and Aged Persons Also ' Slain. . MONASTIR, European Turkey. May 31. Horrible details are arriving here of the slaughter of the Inhabitants In-habitants of the village ofASmer-dash, ofASmer-dash, south of Lake Presba. May 21st by Bashl-Bazouka. It appears that on the arrival of the Bashl-Bazouks, Chakalaroffs band of Insurgents withdrew to the mountains without sustaining any loss. As no rebels were left In the village, vil-lage, the Inhabitants experienced no anxiety, until suddenly at sunset the Turks, who had completely surrounded the place, commenced a regular bombardment, bom-bardment, whereupon all the villagers assembled in the streets. Though the artillery ceased firing during part of the night, the Turkish Infantry fired all night long. The artillery bombardment "was recommenced re-commenced at daybreak, but as It was ineffective the Turks set fire to the village on all sides and commenced a general massacre, slaughtering women, children and the aged. About 300 houses were burned and upward of 200 persona, mostly women and children, were killed. The women and girls were murdered while resisting outrage. Whole households house-holds were slain. One family of seven was slain and their bodies were heaped nn thfk hearth "Knt a Mviner asml warn left In the village. The survivors, many of them half burned or otherwise Injured, In-jured, fled. Some of the fleeing villagers were captured and had their ears and noses cut off before they were butchered. butch-ered. The report adds that 1400 villagers were in the mountains without food or clothing. One band of these, consisting of forty wamen and children, were caught by soldiers In a ravine and were killed after horrible treatment. |