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Show NEW CHAPTER OF HORR;:; Armenians Ruthlessly Slaug1:;-;. Fanatical Turks. . Bucharest. Since the entry t: Russians into Trebizond it is ; to lift the veil which hiti-r: j shrouded the fate of the A::. ' population of that city. I The Russian troops found a" menian houses plundered ar.i t ! In ruins. They had been pl!;: . ' the Turks, the authorities i: :--no opposition. The deportation of Armenia ; carried out In accordance with ir: " tions from Constantinople. S:i of the leading families received .:-der .:-der to prepare for emigration a:; ;. chased wagons to transport the::;-erty, the::;-erty, but four days after their c-: ture all the wagons were brou': to the town. The emigrants U: massacred and their property ;.. dered. Other groups, each of severii dred families, followed. This process was continued '. some time. Eventually, however. : methods were adopted. The entered the houses of the rir Armenians and forcibly er-them. er-them. They were driven throy': -streets and the houses were Ik; up. The whole Armenian po?i;'-of po?i;'-of Trebizond, numbering 10,01-5, : thus exterminated. It is hopei, l-ever, l-ever, that some hundreds may yf. found in villages in the neighhec:' At Erzerum, where the Art.;: population is estimated to have 5,000, practically the same prcf-was prcf-was carried out. |