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Show oo Young Turks Instigate Murder of Armenians LONDON, March 26. Tartars re cently massacred seventeen thousand Armenians within the boundaries of the new Armenian state at the instigation instiga-tion of the Young Turks in the Azerbaijan Azer-baijan government, according to Archbishop Kholn, an Armenian from Erivan, who has arrived in London ;o confer on behalf of the Armenian re- public witli allied authorities regarding regard-ing the situation in Armenia. Three thousand persons are being herded in Tartar villages and portions of the . Armenian frontier are being: held by the Tartars, according to the archbishop. He says that in Decern-1 bcr the Tartars murdered 1-1,000 Armenians Ar-menians at Akoulls, in Azerbaijan, on the pretext that Tartars had becUj massacred In Armenian territory! The archbishop said also that many massacres mas-sacres since the armistice were declared de-clared to have been due to the fact That the frontiers between Armenia and Azerbaijan were not clearly defined. |