The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-12-06
TURKISH ATROCITIES.
NAILED TO POSTS.
Chapter on Turkish Barbarities Be-
fore the Massacre.

| Dr. q. Thoumaian. who was one OF the
Armenian physicians at Herrick college,
Marsovan, Asia Minor and who was sent
enced to death and forced to undergo dis
gusting tortures, being finally released
through the intervention OF Great Britain In
July ls93 furnished tho Associated Press
with the latest details OF the Turkish
outrages which have Just come into his
| possession. Dr. Thoumaian writes;
ut was necessary that the blood OF thous
| ands should be shed in order to bring the
Armenian question on the tapis. but 1t IL al.
most impossible to get full details, the guilty
Turk preventing every possible escape OF
news. However, l have learned the follow.
ing;
"The chief OF police Of Moosh. which is
headquarters Of the Sassoun district. went
with number OF gendarmcs to the village Of
Tchurig, and nailed the head man and some
others head downward TO posts, beat thcm
and drcnched them alternately with hot and
cold water. The chief of police then at.
tempted to dishonor the wife OF one of his
victims, and the unfortunate woman seizing
knife, plunged IL into the chiefs brnin,
whereupon the gcndarmes made n general
attack upon the peasants. 4 stubborn strug.
gle resulted In which many Of the peasants
were wounded, and 80 OF them were taken to
prison at Moosh
The whole village OF Tchurg was charged
with sedition, and the gendarmcs. naturally.
were not reprimanded as they were only
carrying out the orders of their supcriors.
The Armenian villages onthe plains of Moosb
and Bills, Ia the vicinity OF Sassoun and
Van, have been fired and their streets uadc
to run with blood. From Marnig over iOC
oxen aud 900 sheep have been driven of.
and the same has occurred at Colossig and
Uavaborg.
THE villages of Kozloo and Sheik- -Aghoob
We been sacked by Kurds, and two Young
girls were made captives At another village
miller was burned alive At Hnnza-hoik
three Armcnians were murdered This Is
only daily tale Of the horrors in the Villages
on the plains OF Moosh. In September liz
kurds appeared In the village OF Baghezig
ostonsibly for the purpose OF supplies, eating,
drinking and carousing all day. They plund
cred the village, robbed the church of lis
costly vessls and rode away
"On the day following the baad OF Kurds
raided the village Of Faroagh and stole so
head of cattle and aherd of sheep belonging
TO the celebrated monastery Of Naraka In
the village OF Daghveran two youths were
openly butchercd by Kurds before the eyes OF
thclr helpless relatives. | could give pages
and pages of such horrors done TO my peo-
pie. None OF these wrongs have been re.
dressed, nor will they be 80 long a. Bahri
Pasha, himself n Kurd, remains governor.
general OF Van. He Is the greatest enemy TO
the Armenian race When the porte tried to
hinder the Armenihps from emigratlng Rus.
sia and Persia, ~ sicrocious fanatic explain.
ed that the por; ,ould get rid Of the Chris.
tians and at the same time get their land.
since October, 1898, l79 families have eri.
grated from Aghpac 10 Persia. Recently
Bahri Pasha made n tour of that district aud
coniiscated all the property OF absent Ar.
menians, including those who had gone away
on business. Those who returned were
thrown into prison. In order TO support
Bahri Pashas exterminating policy number
OF Kurdish boys who had been imprisoned for
misdeeds, were Sent into the Snssoun dis
uicts Dy the Turks, who marked their prison
sheets with the word Escaped" Unless the
powers act promptly there will be record Of
successive hideous outrages."