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Show BODIES CARRIED DOITO SEA Victims of Massacres in Turkey Cast Into River by Fanatical and Cowardly Assassins. Horrible Scenes Enacted in Disturbed District. Many Armenian Girls Being Carried Off by Turks and Hospitals Filled With Injured. Adana. The emergency hospitals established here contain 300 patients suffering from wounds, many of whom are women. The average number num-ber of wounds to each patient is four. There Is great need for food and medical med-ical supplies. Practically the entire Armenian population of Adana, 15,000 people, is homeless, without bedding or clothing, and the food supply in the shops is exhausted. Some of the wounded Armenian women have told Miss Wallace, an English nurse who Is caring for them, that they were shot by the Moslems because they screamed when they saw their husbands hus-bands killed before their eyes. Many Armenian girls were carried off by the Turks as booty. A large number mutilated bodies have been found in the houses of the city. Conditions in the country surrounding surround-ing Adana, as a result of t'he recent fanatical Moslem movements, upon the Christian population, are terrible. Dead bodies are lying out in the fields. Numberless Armenian farm houses have been burned. Conditions are most unsanitary and dysentery is appearing. Advices from Mersina, Asiatic Turkey, Tur-key, are to the effect that the river that empties into the sea there is carrying car-rying down many bodies of men, women and children. They undoubtedly undoubt-edly were thrown into the river from the country above the city. |