Show RUSSIAN RUSSIA MONASTERY BOMBARDED BY GERMANS NEW EW YORK April 10 How 10 How the Russian Rus Rux- sian monastery of oC St St. Stefano twenty miles from Irom Constantinople was bombarded bolO bom barded h by the thc cruisers Goeben and Breslau and the wrecked building blown up after arter the twenty monks there thero were massacred ml b by a Turkish mob was told here for the tho first time when Constantine Constantino Constan Constan- tine tino Nicolo a Greek who deserted from the tho Turkish service arrived here Nicole Nicolo brought with him the tho picture showing ln the warships' warships shells bursting about the dome omo of oC tho the monastery monaster which he smuggled smuggled smug smug- out of ot the elt city hidden In his shoe The monastery of St Stetano Stefano fd near the lIIa village e of or the same s name came nearly two miles from the thc Sea of ot otar Marmora Marmora Mar Mar- armora mora and twenty miles from Constantinople Constanti Constanti- nople was erected by the tho Russian government government gov gov- ov- ov to commemorate tho the memory of the soldiers killed in tho the Tur Russo-Tur- kish war ar of ot 1877 1577 and marks the nearest point to the Turkish capital c. reached by bythe bythe bytho the tho Russians RUs before the making ol ot peace pel Twenty monks were quartered In the buildings whoso whose golden cross crOM haslon has lon long been an obnoxious sight to Mos Moe- Moslem lem eyes eves When Then Turkey entered Into the tru tIe Rte on the side sido of ot Germany n the monks were subjected at first to petty pett p persecutions perse perse- On December 2 the tho battle cruiser er Goeben and the tho protected cruiser u steamed un up the Sea Sen of oC Mar Mar- mora morn until opposite the monastery mon anc and began firing upon It When hen It was wall I partly demolished a Turkish mob from Constantinople swept through the tho building build In ing slaughtered the monks pillaged the place and destroyed everything e they could not tal take o aw away Then soldiers sc set seta a n. mine under It and blew the build building In to r r. toms oms The monastery mon bell hell and the tho great Arent cross were taken to the thc military museum at Constantinople Nicolo Is a Greek residing In Constantinople Con Con- lie was drafted MAtted for the army but wt was en enabled to escape through the lax laxity It of the tho Turkish service service ice which mak makes s its conscripts return to their own homes homell to eat tat their meals Ho lie disguised ed himself as 8 n a sailor and took refuge c on an Hall Italian ln coasting co steamship In the tho harbor There Ther ho he la lay hidden under the tho boilers until tho the yes yes- 8 sel 1 go goo o safely a away way In hl his shoe hoe Nicolo secreted n a photograph photograph photo photo- graph of the bombardment of th the mon mono I He lie at last trot rot ot to Sl and from there thre was brought broucht to the tho United States through the tho aid of oC relatives here |