The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-11-17
FIENDISH ATROCTTIES
Terrible Destruction Of Christians
in Armenia.
SLAUGHTER OF THE INNooENTs.
Turkish Soldiers, Aided by Bloodthlrsty
Kurds, Indulge i'm Barbaritics That
Would Disgrace Darkest Africa-Babes

LONDON, Nov 17.--The chairman of the
Armenian Patriotic association, q. Hago-
plan, has sent the following letter, received
from an Armenian, whose name is not
given because it would icopurdizo his life,
to the Earl Of Kimberley, the secretary Of
| state for foreign affairs. The letter is ac-
companicd by one from Hagopian, in
which he says:
81 have no reason to doubt the authen-
ticity Of the details. They will be borne
out by fuller official reports, which have
boen or which 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 sickcning details Of fiendish lust and
atrocious cruelty on unarmed Christians
and defcnseless, innocent women and chill
| dren deliberately planned and ruthlcssly
| executed under orders received from Con-
| stantinople."
The letter of the Armenian thus pre-
| faced, is dated Bitlis, Oct g. After saying
that the chief magnate appears to be
second Nero the writer continues.
"The so-called rebellion of the Arme-
mans in 1898 was got up affair, for the
| repression of which the chief magnate got
a decoration
"This year the Kurds carried off Arme
nian oxen, and the Armcnians' appeal for
their restoration was refused A fight en-
| sued and two kurds were killed and three
We're wounded. The Eurds Immediately
| carried their trouble before the governor
declaring that the Armenian soldiers had
| overrun the land killing and plundering
| the Kurds
| "This furnished pretext for massing
the troops from far and near, The troops
! were commanded by pashH and marshal
| and were hurried to the district The
| pasha is said to have hung from his breast
I after reading it to his soldiers an order
| from Constantinople TO cut the Armenians
| up root and branch, and adiuring them to
! do So if they loved their king and govern
mcnt.
! Nearly all these things were related
| here and there by soldiers who took part
in the horrible carnage. 1t is said that 100
! fell to each of them to dispose Of No com
passion was shown to age or sex, even by
the regular soldory, not even when the
| victims fen suppiiant at their feet. Six to
ten thousand persons met such fate as
| even the darkest ages of darkened Africa
| hardly witness, for here women and ten
| der babes might at least have had a chance
Of a life of slavery, while here womanhood
| and innUccuCy were but a mOckery before
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