Show A TURKISH PRISON VA VAN bjune june 3 frum from the associated pies aiesi correspondent in ID armenia Armanis 1 the prison 0 van where the armenian me are oon tied is located u i dr der me abe shadow hadow of the oily wall and aad at a where the abe ground is sw u low ow aw to receive goei re the he drainage of the rest reef oft ot the ity fly litke like the other tuil buildings dings ol oi the city it to 1 built of el sun dried brick laid balna is the mud the prison to la only a antory one atory aud and with no J groping it uri birj f this inner prison consists of six ix loii barrow rooms three ou on each aoh ile of ft a coina loll into which they opeo open etch room ia i about twelve in e wide enu from to forty to feet tum jaws windows window at the oaler color eod end mw t tro so small mall windows window and a door at agi tee I 1 inner e 1 F ona ba apsolon into tho the passage pax Mage ml punny r 1 ng pie ali ejabat ia winter from tillay to lorty men were crowded into each aoh of thee coom sleep jeep nie nic on me it fl or a row along each walls wall 0 80 o that if their iest icet were a little more coore than ordinarily extended the abe two rows row would interfere with bilth each other some rome times there were twenty two men lu in few allowing only about inches far each person peron the five emall celie calls mentioned are damps dark daft slid entirely for winter A prisoner Karak eed by name was waa kept kepi lit itt 1140 abe of theme oella fourteen muli witt w ltd foot letters all the thus lima baud and neck back letters of the time afterwards be waa re ck ond of fh fhe antior ofte blab arle re even eren worse wone and where be now to Is ha ha flogged dogged on an ab verse 01 oboe part rt from the actual bri butchery achary of Ancion the most moil painful feature of the Arm eolan situation to Is the position 01 the armenian women one cannot this phase of the subject without feelings of rage and burror over the insults and outrages to which these theae poor creatures are subjected alter after the most careful personal inquiry the la Is able in hundreds bund of villages la in armenia there to i hardly one woman old or young who is IB not from time to time tim made 66 toe victim of the of the kurda and turks IQ in all lbs village of armenia abe christian women both old and young are absolutely at the mercy of their kurdish and turkish neighbors tole la Is not the oate in the larger jarger cities of van bitite and Erze because in obese the large armenian population Is lu in itself a protection to the wog ravn butin but in the villages vill agea where the arme niana are to io the minority protection is not and the women are at the bea end and call of any turk or kuro kura who happens to wite a fancy ancy to tnt m moreover this state of things IB 13 iloilo L lu be wil web known keown xo to the government ia Is ane custom of the government to cell ell to the highest bidder the tax ot at ado various villages agea too purchaser having the right to collect all all taxes from the people peo pleIn La very many cases too abe number cumber ot of young armenian women in a village has baa a great deal to do with the price paid for the tax privilege when the public sale aale is maue or of too tax privilege it to is no uncommon thing for the auctioneer to call out in the market place so go that all way may heartbeat heart bat a BJ mt anny ny girls are available in the ibe village W when lien a man hat bab purchased the tax privilege of a village villa fc be luers that he be atoo also bought anu ana pata for the abe women or of the village and any attempt on the part of abe hue bus bands broilers broi bro hera ibers or fathers to act em this interpretation of the law la in lookeb upon so big b treason punishable punto bable with wilb death deam if the Arm armenson Armen enlon Jn men object treatment at 0 their women they arebesu sail and driven the villages vill agea andia many baay mom killed hilled T galax kalax osor is i able to io make an extra profit out of him bia village toy oy routing out to oia his friends among the turks eno and kada the privilege of making use u of numb butth women as aa be do cloea oot got want lor for blauw and kurui who wb cannot afford to a a tor am bla privilege content thear abe taking the ahw booma bufor we legot pr I 1 ta amen who suffer euffer the abe most rare kurda and think it great tu to carry on off abrado a bride from the very arms arm of her husband and to kee keep tier to in that houses until they nave have become tired of her bar presence |