Show TURKS RAVAGE many inhabitants slain and refugees doomed to perish london patrick W J stevens the british consul at batum russian reports the arrival at Uru miah persia and in the caucasus Causa sus of a large number of armenian refugees from asia minor nor they are arc in a pitiable condition mr air stevens says they declare that turkish troops have completely ravaged cassun thirty five miles northwest of bialis which was the scene of a massacre of ar medians by kurds burds in 1894 killing a majority of the inhabitants and the defenders of the town only a handful of the people were able to flee to the mountains where the refugees say they are doomed to perish |