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Show Report Massacre of I i Christians in Persia I iH Now York, Sept. 3. At least ono I H thousand Christians wcro killed nnd i':i about four thousand others died of ''Ll disenso In Urumlah, Persia, during tlLI tho five months of Turkish occupn- H tlon, according to n letter received H by J. L. Caldwell, American minis- H tor nt Tehoran, from Dr. William A. M Shcdd of Urumlah and mndo public H hero today by tho Presbyterian Board H of Foreign Missions. iH Dr. Shcdd stated that his figures IH wero based on enroful Investigation IH and record, thcro having been 3G00 lH Christian burials alono In tho city M of Urumlah and tho American col- H lego compound. Ho snld that beforo H the Russians left Urumlah on Janu- jH nry 2, thcro was between 32,000 and jH 33,000 Christians In tho city and sur- H rounding villages. Within a fow days H after January 2 between 8,000 nnd B 0,000 left tho country. H Of tho C.C00 Christian families In H tho district Dr. Bhcdd said that nil jH but 1,000 woro robbed of nil their H possessions, nnd nearly all Buffered .M some loss. Ho said tho total loss of H Christians had been estimated at M 12,500,000 and added that tho Pree- jH byterlan mission sustained a loss of H $10,000 during ono attack. Consider- H nbly more than a hundred Christian H girls turned Moslems during tho Tur- H kjsh occupation, tho writer said, In M hope of escaping violence B |