The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-11-17

LONUONs Novs l0s-1 u0 cu8skt0Au q Tug
Armenian Patriotic association, G. Hag.
plan, has sent the following letter, re.
ceived from an American whose name II
not given because it would jeopardise his
life, to the Earl Of Kimberley, the secretary
Of state for foreign affairs: The letter 10
accompanied by ono from Hagpian In
which ho says:
II have NO reason TO doubt the authsn.
ticity Of the details. Thsy will be borne
out by fuller Official reports which have
been, or which will soon be, received from
tho British agents In Armenia. The
events reported are the snactmsnt Of the
Bulgarian atrocities with all their most
sicksnins details Of fisndish lust and
atrocious cruelty on unarmed Christian
and defenselsss innocent women and
children. deliberately planned and ruth.
lessly executed under orders received
from Constantinople."
Hagp,an concludes BY saying tho time
has come to abolish In toto the existing
administration Of Armenia and replace It
by another regime approved by Great
Britain and other signatorics OF the trea.
,aiss ct Berlin tswurkv6 under their I'm.
mediate supervision.
Tho letter of tho Armenian thus pre-.
faced is dated Bitiis, Oct. 0. After saying
that the maanato appears to be . second
Nero, tho writer continues:
'The so-called rebellion Of the Armsn.
ians in 1888 was got-up affair for the ~.
preston Of which the ehies magnats got Q
decoration. This year the Kurds carried
OF Armenian oxen and the Armensans'
appeal for the restoration wss refused. A
fight ensued. Two Kurds were killed and
three were wounded. Tho Kurds imms.
diatsly carried their dead before the GOV.
ernor, declaring the Armenian soldiers
had overrun the land, killing and plum.
dsring the Kurds. This furnished Q pro.
text for massing troops from far and near.
"The troops were commanded By q
pasho and . marshal and were hurried to
| the district. The pasha 10 said to have
hung from his breast, after reading Il "a
his soldiers. IN order from Consta ntinopls
to cut the Armenians up root and branch.
Nearly oil these things were related
here and there by soldiers who tool
part in the horrible carnage. Some oi
them, weeping, claim the Kurds did more
and declare they only obsyed the orders
OF the others.
"lt 10 sold that 100 fell to each one oi
them to dispose Of. No compassion was
shown to age or sex even by the regulaI
soldiers, not even whom the victim fell Z
supplicant at their feet.
"Sixteen thousand persons met such Z
fate a. even the darkest ages Of darkenet
Africa hardly witnessed; for women ant
tender babes might at least had chance
for . life Of slavery, while their woman
hood was but mockery before the cruo
lust that ended its debauch by stabbins
tho women to death with the bayonet
whilo tender babes were impaled with th,
same weapon on their dead mothers
breast, or perhaps seized by the hair I,
have their heads chopped with the sword
yin one place 300 or 400 women, afte
being forced to serve vile purposes BY tn,
merciless soldiery, were hacked to piece,
by the sword and bayonet in tho valle,
below.
IAN another place 200 weeping nn,
wailing women begged at the command
er's feet, but the bloodthirsty wretch
after ordering their violation, directed hi
soldiers to dispatch them in simila
way.
''In another place some 90 young bride,
and tho more attractive girls wcr
crowded into q church and. after viola
ton, were slaughtered, and human gon
was soon flowing from the church door.
"A, another place a large company
under the leadership Of their priests. fol
down before them begging for compassion
and averring they had nothing to do wit
he culprits. But all TO no purpose. Al
were called to one place and the propose
was made to several OF tic e.morc aitrac,
i've women 10 change their Faith. in whic
event their lives were 10 be spared. The
said. WHY should We deny Christ? w
arc no more than these pointing to ,h
mangled forms of their husbands an
brothers. Kill Us too and they did so.
~ great effort was made to save on