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Show ARMENIAN CHRISTIANS Outchorod by Kurds by Ordor of tho Turkish Sultan. Alaltor from nn Armoninn, dated Mills, Mi-lls, October 9, Is prefaced "Airangcd In advance" Alter saying that tho mag-nato mag-nato appears to bo a socond Nerd, thn writer continues . , "The so-called robolllon of tho Armenians Arme-nians In 1803 was n got-up nffair, for the repression ot which tlio Chief Mngnnlo got a decoration. "lids year tho Kurds carried off Armenian Ar-menian oxen and tlio Aimonians' appeal ap-peal for their restoration was refused. A fight ensued, two Kinds wcro killed and throo woro wounded. "The Kurds Iminodlntclycarried their dead before tho Governor, doclariig the Armoninn soldiors had overrun tlio land killing and plundering tlio Kurds. "This furnished n pretext for massing tlio troops from far nnd noar. Tiie troops were commanded by a l'aslia nnd a Marshal and woro hurried to thu district. dis-trict. "ThoPnsha Is said to have hung from his breast after rending It to hU soldiers an order from Constantinople to cut the Armenians up, root and branch, and ad. jurlng them to do so It they loved their King and Government. SIXTKKN THOUSAND BLAIK. "Sixteon thousand persons met such a fate as evon tlio darkest nges ofdarkoat Africa hardly witnessed, for the women nnd tender babes might, nt least, hnve had n clinnco for a Ufa ot slavery, wlillo their womanhood wnB but n mockery before be-fore Hit) cruel lust that omtedltidobauch by stabbing women to death with tlio bayonet vvhilotomlorbabcs woro Impaled with tlio samn weapon on their dead mothers' breasts, or porhaps soixed by tho hair to hnvo their heads chopped off witli tho sword. "In ono placo 300 or 400 women, after being forced to servo vllo purposes by tlio merciless soldiery, wcro hacked to pieces by sword nnd bayonet In tho valley val-ley below. "In another placo some 200 wcoping (nnd wailing woman begged for compassion, compas-sion, falling nt tho commander's feet.but tho bloodthirsty wretch, after ordering their violation, dlroctcd his soldiers to dispatch them in n similar way. "In nnother placo somn sixty young brides and the more nttrnctlvo girls wcro crowded into it church nnd after violation viola-tion wero slaughtorud nnd human gore was soon flonlngfrom tho church door. "At another placo n large company under the leadership of their priests, full down before them begging for compassion compas-sion and averring they had nothing to do witli thu culprits. Dut all to no purpose. pur-pose. All were called to ono placo nud nfter being vainly urged to clmngo their faith wore killed. "A great effort was made to tmvc one beauty,. but throo or four quarrelled over her nnd.sb.0 sank down liko her sMer. "Hut why prolong the sickening; tale Thoro must boa God In heaven who will do right in all tlicso inntters, or some oi us would losu faith." Another letter eayn borne ot tlio regular regu-lar soldiers themselves admit they killed 100 persons each iu a fiendish manner and that rapo wns followed by tlio .bajo-net. .bajo-net. Twenty or thirty Armenian villages, vil-lages, it would seem, liavo been wholly destroyed, und some persons woro put to death with kerosene iu their own houses. |