Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-11-17

Make the Blood Run Cold.
LONDON, Nov. 1.-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 jcopartlize
his life, to the earl of Kimberly, the sec
rotary of state for foreign rffairs The
letter is accompanied by one from Hogo-
plan, in which he says: Il have no rsa-
son TO doubt the authenticity OF the de-
tails They will be borne out by fuller
official reports which have been or which
will soon be received from the British
agents in Armenia The events reported
are the re-cnactmcnt of the Bulgarian
atrocities with all their most sickcning
details of fiendsh lust and atrocious cru
elites on unarmcd Christians and defense
less, innocent women and children, de-
hbcrately planned and ruthlessly exc
cUted under orders from Constantinople.
The Turk Cooks Up Revolt.
Hagopian concludes by saying that the
time has come to abolish in toto the exist
ing administration of Armenia and re-
place it by another regime approved by
the treaties of BCIlin and worked under
their immediate supervision. The letter
OF the Armenian thus prefaced is dated
Bitlis, Oct 8. After saying that the chief
magnate appears to be a second Nero, the
writer continues: ''Thc so-callcd rebellion
of the Armenians in 1898 was n got-up af-
fair for the repression of which the chief
magnate got decoration. This year the
Kurtis carried OFF Armenian oxen and the
Armenian's appeal for their restoration
was refused. \ fight ensued. two KurLis
were killed and three We're wounded.
Orders sent for Annihi!ation.
1.-The kurds Immediately carried their
dead before the governor, declaring that
the Armenian soldiers had ovcrrun the
land, killing and plundcring the Kurds.
This furnished a pretcXt for massinr the
troops from far and near Troops COM
manded by a pasha and a marshal were
hurried to the district. The pasha is said
to'have hung from his breast, after read
ing it to his soldiers. an order from Con-
stantinople to cut the Armenians up root
and branch and adjuring them to do so if
they loved their king and government.
Nearly all these things We're related here
and there by soldiers who took part in the
ing, claimed that the Kurds did more, and
declare that they only obeycd the orders
of others.
Lach Soldier to Butcher q Hundred.
lit is said that 100 fell to each OF them
20 dispose of. No compassion was shown
TO age or sex even by the regular soldiery,
not even when the victims fell suppliant
ut their feet Six thousand to 10000 per-
sons met such fate as even the darkest
ages of darkencd Africa hardly witness. for
there women and tender babes might at
least have had n chance of life of slavery,
while here womanhood and innocency
were but n mockcry before the cruel lust
that ended its dcbauch by stabbinE wom-
on to death with the bayonet while tender
babes We're impalcd with the same weapon
on their dead mothers breasts or perhaps
seized by the hair to have their heads
Topped OF with the sword.
Specimens of Turkish Brutality.
IN one place 800 or 400 women after
being forced to serve vile purposes by the
lncrcilcss soldiery, were hacked to pieces
by sword and bayonct in the valley below
In another place some weeping and wall
ing women begged for compassion, falling
at the commanders feet, but the blood
thirsty wretch, after ordering their viola
tion, directed his soldiers to dispatch them
IN Il similar way. In another place some
sixty young brides and the more attractive
girls were crowded into "a church and
after violation, were slaughtered, and
human gore was seen flowing from the
church door