Show A TALE OF HORROR LONDON Nov 16 The 16 The chairman of othe the Armenian patriotic Hagopian has bal sent lent the following let let- letter letter let letter ter reo received ived from tram an Armenian whose name DalDe are Is 1 not given because it would Jeopardize bi bin life Ute to the Earl of ot Kim Kim- Kimberly Kimberly berly secretary of ot state date for tor foreign The letter is II accompanied by byone byone bjone one from HagopIan in which b be saye laye I 1 have ae no reason to doubt the uthen of ot the detail details They will be born out by fuller official reports report which have been or which will soon eon be re- re received from the British agents li In Armenia I prefaced The letter latter of ot the Armenian thus pre pre- pre faced Is la dated October The writer say saye aye The rhe called ic rebellion of ot the Ar- Ar Armenians Ar in 1893 was wai a up got-up affair I for tor the ibe repression ot of which the shies magistrate got a decoration u year the Kurds Kurdi carried oft off ArmenIan oxen and the appeal for lor or the restoration was wax ed A fight ensued two Kurds Kurda were It killed lcd and three were wre wounded ce The Kurds Kurd immediately carried their dead d ad before bel ore the governor lug declaring lUg ing the Armenian soldiers bad had over over- oV overrun overrun r run the lan lava lano killing aud and plundering the Kurds H Thus furnished a pretext tro ps from far tar and ana near commanded by Ii a pasha and a marshal were hurried to the district The pasha is if said iid to have bave hung from his hie breast alter reading it to bit hiu soldiers an order from tram pie o- o opie pie to cut the Armenians up rout root and aDo branch and adjuring them to do ao so 10 If they loved their king and government N Nearly early all of or these things were re- re related related re related here bere and there by soldiers who took tonk part in the horrible carnage Some of ot them were weeping it is 18 said laid that fell teU to each ot of them to 10 dispose of at No compassion was shown to age of sex u even by the regular soldiers not even when the victims fell supplicant at their feet teet Sixteen thousand persons l met moba sucha such a fate as a even the darkest ages age of ot dark dark- darkened eneLi ened Africa hardly witnessed for tor the women and tender t ud r babes bab r might blight at least bave have had ban a chance for lor a life Ufe of at slavery lavry while their womanhood was wae but a mockery before the cruel lust that ended Its iti debauch by women to death with the bayonet while tender babes babe were impaled Impale with the same ame same weapon on their dead deall bythe mothers breasts brea f or perhaps seized by byI I the hair bair to have bave their tb ir be beads dl chopped ottO oft with the sword word I In In one place SOO or women after atter bythe being forced to serve erve vile vUe purposes by bythe the merciless soldiery were backed hacked to pieces piece by sword and bayonet bayone in the valley below In another place rome come weeping and wailing women begged for lor com com- compassion passion failing at the commanders commander's tee feet but buc the bloodthirsty wretch after atter ordering their violation directed his bli soldiers to dispatch them In a similar way In another place some ome sixty young brides and aDd the more attractive girls were crowded Into a church and after violation were slaughtered and ancl human buman gore was wai soon loon flowing from irom the church door At another place a large company under the leadership bip of or their priests i foil fell down them begging for tOI compassion and averring they had bad nothing to do with the he culprits But ButaU aU all to no DO purpose All AU were called tione to toone toone one place and the proposal was wall made to several of ot the more attractive WOo wo- women women men to change their faith in which event their lives Jives were to be spared p They lalo W Why hy should bould we deny We are no more than these I pointing to the mangled forms of ot their the husbands and brother sill nUl ui us too and they did so o But t why prolong the sickening tale talt Tl e must mut be a God tod In In heaven beaven who wh will wUl do right In ail these matters matten or orsome oI some of at us UI u would lose loae faith 4 Another letter says lays some ome of the reg reg- reg- reg regular regular regular ular soldiers re themselves admit they killed persons per each in a fiendish manner and that rape was wa followed by the bayonet Twenty or thirty Armenian villages village it would seem sem have been wholly destroyed and some persons were put to death with kero- kero kerosene kerosene sene one in their own houses CONSTANTINOPLE Nov 16 The rhe following official account of the Ar- Ar Armenian Ar Armenian Armenian trouble was wa issued today Some Armenian brigands provided with arms arm arms of foreign make joined sit aD Insurgent Kurd tribe for the purpose or of committing excesses They burned and devastated several everal Musselman villages A As an in instance of ot the feroci feroci- ferocity ferocity ty of ot the Armenians it is ii reported they burned alive a Musselman Reg Reg- Regular Regular Regular ular troops troop were sent to tile We scene to protect peaceable inhabitants inhabitant against these depredations The Ottoman troops troop not only pro pro- protected pro protected protected and respected the submissive portion of the population and the women wo wo- women men and children 1 jut tut ut they re re li bed order and tranquility It is 18 not true that the Kurds Kurd seized a iz d the furni furni- furniture furniture furniture ture effects and cattle of lit the fugitive Armenians The latter took their effects to the mountains before revolting The Armenian women woman at present with the Kurds Kurd belong to the families ot of the brigands and went of at their own accord with their hu husbands band to the Insurgent Kurds Kurd Respecting the vII vil- vil villages lages alleged to have b been en destroyed it was waa the Armenians Armenian who carried oft off aU all their belongings before becoming brigands A LONDON Nov A 16 16 A dispatch t to the Standard from Worn Werna Bulgaria ay says that despite n governments government's silence facts have come out which leave ne no doubt that a ma massacre ot of Christians important has bai occurred on 00 as aa tant a scale M as a the butchery at Batok Bulgaria which bent a thrill of ot horror h b the civilized world The trouble began with the be refusal of or the Armenians to pay tax on OB the plea possibly well founded that the tre- tre frequent fre frequent quent Kurdish raid raids have bave Impoverished l bed them In the meantime the governor ot of reported to the Porte Perte that serious revolts bad broken out and obtained permission ion to send nd all available troops to 0 the scene icene Marshal Pasha commander of ot the Fourth army corps stationed at Erzinger was waa ordered to proceed to-proceed proceed bither hither Before this thia imposing array of regulars regular the Armenians tame tame- Iv submitted Now comes come the horrible part of the story The governor of at resolved to make an example i in D order to pre pre- pre vent prevent a repetition of ot the revolt He ordered the troops troop to fire on the de de- de defenseless de people The order was wai exe exe- executed and tb the soldiers only rested relMa from their labors labor when twenty five villages were destroyed and thousands or of their inhabitants inhabitant killed Mr Hallward the British consul a at Varna proceeded to the cene Icene scene and thenn theD reported to the British ambassador who protested protected to the Porte The sultan expressed horror borrer and ordered aa an imme imIDe- imme date report from irom Zeki which appears to have seriously Involved the governor of ot The latter in self self- defense and as al a a means meana of ot obtaining haa revenge has has formulated the grave charge against Mr Hallward of at inciting ing the Armenians to revolt This i is being Investigated by British officials official |