| Show MOOSH commission CONSTANT MoPLE june 9 additional reports received indicate thattie that the moosh commission closed on friday so BO far as an the work of the european dele gates la Is concerned they were compelled to tell tue toe turkish delegates delegate that they could have nothing more to do with them from the first the altitude of the turkish delegates has ban been invariably and increasingly diab dle bonet according statement tate menti oot of abow interested in the work working ingis of the cow corn mission the representatives of the sul BUI tan have not manifested honor truth or decency they have made no efforts to determine the cause came of the outrages in armenia the rupture between the turkish and the european commission was waa caused by the refusal of the turks on purely farcical grounds ground to hear har important witnesses on matters pertaining to questions quee tiona at issue it was waa evident that the turks were alfraid the tissue ot of falsehoods falu booda that they have thrown throw 0 around the situation ln in armenia would be broken down the following report is made by a special correspondent of the associated press preb dated persia may 7 the turkish government it is claimed has just taken the preliminary steps in what may result in ID a massacre ol of Nesto nestorian Nea torian christians in the mountains of kurdistan Kurdi atan it to IB asserted that the government has baa given orders to starve the 10 independent dependent tribes of Nest Nestori auB in the mountain moun talu region immediately west ot of aawar which may be des dee bribed as aa lying about midway between and lake van about fifty miles west of the persian iron frontier tier the orders orden it is stated are that no food flap plim ot of any kind shall hall be allowed tu su enter the territory of the independent tribes and measures are said to have bay been taken to enforce theme the orders orden to the letter tula thin again la Is apparently taken as a a means meana of compelling the independent tribes to submit to the Turi authorities and to pay the taxes demanded by the government and is regarded as aa the ant serious attempt tue toe turks have made to extort taxes tabea from the independent tribes from the earliest earl leat times time in the hid bid tory of u the be so tribes have been independent of turk lab job rule they have paid no taxes and they boy have acknowledged no DO allegiance le legi ance to the turkish government the present course of the government is ia taken lu in some quarters as an indication that the sultan citan has sec on toot foot a systematic persecution of christians in all parts ot of the empire the aulian has haa plenty of opportunity for knowing that the independent Nest are too poor to pay taxes and that many of them make a living by going down into the villages of their lose leaa wrecked wrack ed ly jy poor fellow countrymen and begging theme poor creatures crea turee according to the story are to be carved starved because they will not dot bare with the sultan of turkey the scraps ot of broad bread the refuse bits bite ol of meats and the odds and ends enda which they nave obtained by begging their homes arto are to lu a wild wildness new ot of mountain peaks and narrow rocky valleye where nothing will grow except a tuft of broom corn here hare and there in the crevices on the rooks rocks of me mountain side and ana a low lew stocks of millet in lk a casual square yard ot soll soil in the valleys it is difficult to forecast the probable result of too starvation ot of this race ot of beggars should the report turn out to to be correct driven demp desperate grato by hunger bunger the people will endeavor enu anu eavor to obtain food frodi aroxi aawar and other outside district and ware there will be fights witti with the turkish troops ane villages will possibly be attacked mid aud some acme of the wretched people will be killed and not man can prophesy where the jon ion will end I 1 have just juit returned from a rapid journey to the kurdish mountains mountain for the he purpose of the lepor that fourteen villager village had been at tacked and devastated by a raid of kurds burds last week the original rumor had it that the kurds burds had massacred many christians and had bad carried off women and girls to the mountains alter after riding day and night to reach the scene of the raid I 1 at length arrived at the he valley which lies lie like the bottom of a boat beneath mountains covered from bass to summit with almost unbroken expanses of scow it was in this valley that the raid took place I 1 found that a band of burds kurds from the mountains bad indeed raided fourteen villages in this valley but the raid was wae directed against t ther burds kurds and not christians there were a low few nestorian Net orlan christians living in the valley but they were not mo bested in any way As this raid was not a race or a re raid it have little interest outside of the valley I 1 regret to say lay that mr paton the british consul general in tabriz persia la Is very much in disfavor dia favor with the gentlemen who are conducting the armenian revolutionary movements move menta in spite of the fact wat bat mr paton has haa been col leiting evidence of the gassoun and moosh massacre mazacro for the Us uie of the government the armenian look upon him as aa a spy they may go to the length of boing him bodily harm barm the closing of the caravan routes to van has rendered more acute the suffering from famine in the devastated districts near van vain the only hope of relief to la now out off |
