Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-22

with BayOuets on Their Mothers
Breasts.
LONDON, Nov. 16.-The chairman of
the Armenian Patriotic Association, G.
Hagopian, has sent the following letter,
received from an Armenian, whose name
is not given because it would ieopardize
his life, to the Earl of Kimberly, the
secretary Of state for foreign affairs.
The letter is dated Bitlis, October 9th.
After saying that the chief magnate APP
pears 10 be q second Nero, the writer
continues:
The so.called rebellion of the Ar.
menians in 1898 was n got.up affair for
the repression Of which the chief mag
nate got n decoration.
"This year tho kurds carried of Ar
meuian oxen, and the Armenians' APP
peal for their restoration was refused.
| a fight ensuOd, two Kurds were killed
and three were wounded. The Kurds
| Immediately carried their trouble be-
| fore the Governor, declaring that the
| Armenian soldiers had Ovcrrun the
| land, killing aud plundering the Kurds
"fhis furnished pretext for massing
the troops from far and near The
troops were commanded by pasta and
a marshal and were hurried TO tho dis
triCL.
1.-The pasha is said to have hung from
his breast after reading it TO his soldiers,
an order from Constantinople to cut the
Armenians up root and branch and ad-
| Turing them to do so if they loved their
King and government.
Nearly all these things were related
| a ~ a.- L., ,gllto.. -
in the horrible carnage. Some of them
weeping, claim that the Kurds did more
and declare that they only obeyed the
orders of others.
WOMEN TERRIBLY ABUSED.
at is said that 100 fell to each of then
to dispose of. No compassion WA.
shown to age or sex even by the regular
soldiery, not even when the victims fel
suppliant at their feet. Six or ter
thousand persons met such fate "A!
even the darkestages of darkened AfIict
hardly witnessed, for there women ant
tender babes might, at least, have had ;
chance of life of slavery, while here
womanhood and innocence were but
mockery before the cruel lust that endet
its debauch by stabbing women to dealt
with the bayonet, while tender babes
were impalGd with the same weapon OF
their dead mothers breasts, or, perhops
seized by the hair to have their head
, Topped off with the sword.
"ln one place three or four hundred
women, after being forced to serve vii,
purposes by the nvrciless soldiers, wert
, hacked to pieces by sword and bayone
, in the valley below.
In another place some 200 wcepini
and wailing women begged for com
passion, falling at the commander
feet, but tue hloodthirsty wretch, afte
, ordering their violation, directed hi
> soldiers to dispatch them in a slmila
way.
I'm another place some 60 youn
brides and the most attractive Cir
were crowded into q church, and afte
violation were slaughtered, and huma
I gore was seen flowing from the churc
4 | door.
: cat another place still, large con
pany, under the leadership of the
: priest, fell down before them, begin
Q for compassion and averring that the
4 had nothing TO do with the culprits. Bt
:. all TO no purpose.
A "All WIRE called to another place an
:. the proposal was made to several Of Til
= more attractive women to change the
S faith, in which case their lives were I
l. be spared. They said: why should "
IS deny Christ? We are no more tina
q these, pointing to the mangled form
OF their husbands and brothers; kill |
:. too And they did so.
x "a great effort was made to save OF
@ beauty. but three or four quarruled ov,
.e her, and she sank down like her sister
But why proiong the sckcniug tale
, There must be a God in Heaven VII
will do right in all these matters,
l. some Of us would lose faith.
is zone or more consuls have bee
II ordered that way to investigate Il
d matter. If the Christians, instead
the Turks, reported these things in IL
city of Btlis, and tho region where
have been touring, the case would
different But now we are cOmpellt
y to believe il, The magnates are huvil
III papers circulated and arc trying 10 COZ
U pei the Christians to Sign them, expires
e ing satisfaction that justice should
d done 10 the rebels and thanking ii
III King and the chief magnntG himse
The Christians Of Bitlis will not sig
though il is said that in some Of d
c. outlayinE districts some Of the Christia
o. have. The circulars have not yet bet
&c offered TO Protcstants, and rs yet 4
= Proteslanis have not yet been thru
IL into Chains or hlackmailed very muc
though latcly things arc beginning
= look that way"
Another letter says that some of /
regular soldiers themselves admit til
they killed 100 persons each ina fen
lsh manner, and that rape was follow
by the bayUnet.
Twenty or thirty Armenian viilag
it would seem, have been wholly d
slr0yea and some persons were burn
10 DEATH with kerosene in their o,
houses.
! 4 PLOT THAT FAILED.
] IltipVRg IA StpnI Ss2t Irt,