Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-12-22
HORRIBLE TORTURE.
Tho Turks Throw Armenian Chil-
dron Into Burning Oil.
MEMS LIMBS CUT OFF WITH SAWS.
Advices from Newspaper Correspondent
Mt Port Arthur-strccts Of tho strong-
hold Clicked and Biockaded
with Corpscs.

BERLIN. Dec. 90 THE Cologne Gazette
publishes letter regarding the a:roci.
ties committed on the Armcnians
which says that the Turkish garrisons
ut Erzcroun. lrisa, Van, Tigranocerta.
Babcrt and Moosh, altogether number.
ing about G0,0J0, were sent against the
Armenians. The commanders OF these
troops announced to the inhabitants of
the villages: I've are ordered to put you
to the sword for openly defying the gov
eminent" The attack Logan on August
IS. The Turks were repulscd in the
first instance. The massacrcs began
September s. Those Armenians who
submitted Internationally were bound
to stakes and then their limbs were cut
off with saws. In other eases the vic.
tins were disembowled and their eyes
gougcd out. Children were thrown
into burning oil and women were tor
tured and burned to death. The troops
plundered and burned the churches.
Among those who fell victims to the
savagery of the soldiers were forty
priests, who were brutally massacred.
The British consul ut Erzeroun was
prevented from going to the scenes Of
the atrocities on the ground that It
was not safe for an Armenian, he be-
ing an Armenian, to approach the
places where the troubles had &C.
Cured. This did not deter him from
making an attempt to learn the truth,
but Us he was trying to approach one
of the devastated villages he was ar
rested.
Among those who witnessed the
atrocities was Spaniard named
Ximcnes. The Turkish authorities an
preached him and offered him large
brides to induce him to deny in the
English papers the truth of the reports
of the outragcs. They also sought to
bribe him to go to England for the
purpose of delivering lectures on
Armenia, in which he was to dwell up
on the contented condition of the
Armcnians. Senior Ximencs rejected
the offers made to him.
PORT ARTHUR MASSACRE.
New York, Dec. a0.-!The World will
print the following special advices from
its correspondent, who was with the
Japanese army ut Port Arthur: She
struggle for the emancipation Of Corea
has been suddenly turned into
headlong savage war Of conquest. II
is no longer conflict between civil
lization and barbarism. Japan for
the last four days has trampled
civilization under the feet Of her con-
qucring army. The taking Of Port
Arthur and the possession of one of
the most powerful strongholds in the
world was too great a strain upon the
japanese character, which relapsed in
n few hours back into the british state
from which it was awakened a genera
ton ago. Almost the entire popula-
ton found in Port Arthur has been
massacred and the work of butchering
the unarmcd and unresisting inhab-
itants has been continued. The streets
are choled with mutilated corpses.
In spite of the vastness of the battle.
field and the strength of the batteries
masscd in this mighty chain of
land and sea. the taking Of Port
Arthur is robbel of its dignity rs
battle by the fact that large and
well trained army attacked mere
rabble. There was great deal OF
artillery thunder and scientific ma
neuvcring of the troops among
the cannon crowded hills. but the in
fantry fighting was incidental and the
butchers BILL" Us the hardened cam
paigner- would call it, was insignifi-
cant. The japanese lost about fifty
dead and twenty-five wounded in car
rying fortress that would have cost
them 10000 men had 1t been occupied
by European or American citizens.
China is now at the mercy of the island
empire. In n few days the fierce Sen.
nal troops will be ready to leave Japan
to join Field Marshal Oyama's army.
and then the third and final movement
tova rd pelSin will BEGIN.