The morning call., 1894-11-17
SLAUGHTER OF ARMENIANs.
Neither Men, Women Nor Chill
dren Spared. "
oUTRAGES THAT ARE NAMELEss,
But Even the Bulgarian Atrocities
have Been Outdone by the
Sultan'S Soldiers.

LONDON, Nov. 16.-The chairman of the
Armenian Patriotic Association, G. Hago-
plan, has sent the following letter, re-.
celved from an American whose name is
not given because it would jeoDardize his
lie, TO the Earl of Kimberley, the Secre tary
OF State for Foreign Affairs. The letter
is accompanied by one from Hagopiap, in
which he says: 81 have no reason tc doubt
p the authenticity of tue details: They will
be borne out by fuller official reports
which have been or will soon be received
from the British agents In Armenia. The
events reported are the re-enactment of
the Bulgarian atrocities. with all their
most siekeDing details OF fiendish lust and
atrocious cruelty on unarmed Christians
and defenseless innocent women and chill
dren, deliberately planned and ruthlessly
executed under orders received from Con-
stantinople."
Hagopian concludes by saying that the
fine has come 10 abolish in toto the exist
ing administration of Armenia and replace
u by another regime approved by Great
Britain and other signatories of the treaties
of Berlin and worked under their imme-
diate supervision.
The letter of The Armenian thus pref
Rced is dated Btlis, Octo Der 8. After say
ing that the magnate appears TO be a
second Nero, the writer continues: 1.-The
so-called rebellion of the Armenians in
1898 was got-up affair for the repression
of which the chief magnate got decora-
tion. This year The Kurds carried off
Armenian oxen, and the Armenians' ap-
peal for restoration was refused. A fight
eDsued; two Kurds were killed and three
wounded. Tie KurQs Immediately car
ried their dead before the Governor. de-
caring that the Armenian soldiers had
cverrun tile land, killing and pIundering
the kurds. This furnished a pretaxt for
massing the troops from far and near. The
troops we're commanded by Pasha and
marshal and were hurried to the istrict
The Pasba is said TO nave hung from
his breast, after reading it to his soldiers.
an order from Cons aptinopoIe to cut off the
Armen;aDs. root and branch, and adiuring
them to do so if they loved their Kiug and
Government
Nearly all of these things were related
here and there by the soldiers who took
sart in che horrible carnage. Some of
them, weeping, claim thai the Kurds did
more and declare they only obeyed the
Erders of the others. 1t is said that 100
fell to each of them to dispose Of No
compassion was shown 20 age or sex even
by the regular soldiers, and not even when
the victims fell supplicant al their feet.
Sixteen thousand persons met such
fate as even the darkest ages of darkened
Africa have hardlg witnessed, for the
women and lender babes might at least
have had chance for life of slavery,
While their womanhood were but mock
cry before the cruelty that ended it's de-
bauch by sabbing women TO death with
the bayOnet while tender babes were i'm
paled with the same weapon on their
dead mothers breast. or perhaps seized by
the hair 10 have their heads chopped off
with the sw rds. In one place 300 or 400
women, after being forced to serve vile
purposes by the merCiless soldiery. were
hacked to pieces by sword and bayonet.
I'm another place some 200 weeping and
walling women begged for compassion,
falling at the commanders feet, but the
bloodthirdy wretch after giving an order
TO his soldiers which Is an outrage on hu-
nanitv, also directed tha soldiers to dis
patch them in a similar way In another
place some sixty youSg brides and the
more attractive girls were crowded into
church and after beink assaulted were
slaughtered and human gore was soon flow
ing from the church door.
AT another place large company un-
der the leadership of their priests fell
down before the Kurds, begging for COM
passion, and everriDg that they had moth
Ing 10 DO with the culprits. 1t was all to
u" purpose. All were called to one place and
the proposal was made to several of the
more attractive women TO change their
faith, in which event their lives would be
spared.
''They said, why should we deny
Christ? We are no more than these
pointing to the mangled forms of their
husbands and brothers. Kill us, too and
they did so. A great effort was made 10
save one beauty, but three or four quar-
relied over her, and she sank down like her
sisters.
But why prolong the sickening tale
There must be God in heaven who will
60 right in all these matters or some of US
would lose faith.
zone or more consuls have been ordered
away for trying to investigate the matter.
III the Christians instead of the Turks re-
ported these things in the city OF Bitlis
and the region where / have been touring
The case would be different. But now we
are compelled to believe it. The mag
mates are having papers circulated and are
trying to compel the Christians to sign
them, expressing satisfaction that justice
nao been dealt to the rebels and thanking
the King and the chief magnate. The
Chrlstans of Bitlis will not sign, though
II IS said that in some of the outlying dis
tricts Christians have signed. The cir
culars have not been offered to Protest.
anus, and as yet the Prolestants have not
been thrust into chains or blackmailed
very much. though lately things are be-
ginning to look that way"
Another letter says that some of thu
regular soldiers themselves admit that
they killed 100 persons each in a fiendisb
manner. and that assault was followed INV
the bayone.. Twenty or thirty Armenian
villages. it would seem, have been wholly
destroyed. and some persons were mt tn
death with kerosene in their own bouses.
LONDON, Nov. ia dispstcn 10 the
Standard from Werna, Bulgaria. saws that
despite the Turkish Governments