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Show ATROCIOUS DEEDS OF THE TURKS All Males in Bitlis Region Massacred Mas-sacred 9,000 Women and Children Shot Bodies Thrown Into River. 40,000 ARMENIANS DEAD Twenty Members of Social Democratic Party(,Publicly Hanged in Constantinople. Constan-tinople. Paris, Aug. 3, 5:50 p. m. B. Vanadate, Vana-date, a member of the committee of the Armenian Social Democratic party, par-ty, writing to L'Humanlte, says the committee has received word that Turks, after massacring all the males of the population In the region of Bltlls, Turkish Armenia, assembled 9000 women and children and drove them to the banks of the Tigris where they shot them and threw the bodies into the river. These advices have not been substantiated sub-stantiated from any other source. The Armenian population of Cillcla, in the Turkish Vilayet ' of Adana also bas been subjected to persecution, according accord-ing to the reports of the committee. More than 40,000 persons already are dead and it is feared tho Armenians at Moucke and Diarbokr, In Kurdes-tan, Kurdes-tan, also have been massacred. Twenty members of the Armenian Social Democratic party, Varazdato says, have been publicly hanged in Constantinople after being charged with wishing to found an independent Armenia. |