The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-30
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Turks Were so Cruel That Even the
Kurfs Were shocked.

Kurfs Were shocked.
London. March 2s.-T-as Earl OF kim
berry. secretary OF state for foreign AZ
fairs. IN receiving a deputaslon OF TIE Ar
menian Association expressed warm SYM
patty with the objects OF the association.
aua said that the government ~as doing
It's best % make the Inquiry into the out
RACES IN Armenia ss thorough and search
ing as poSssbis. He aided that an indie
pendent report would be made ny the
European representatives The main Oh
tecr IA view was 90 secure In the future
protection for the lives. properly and
lands Of Armenian ChristlGns. In this
Object. he was glad 20 say. Great Britain
had the cooperation OF France ard Rus
sia. both OF which countries were con-
WINGED OF the necessity or reform One of
the chief problems IL how 20 bring about
the results desired without raising in an
acute form the Eastern question lie
thought the time ogportane for dealing
with the matter 81 such fashion as TO
avoid danger when tie time came for
setion the gNernmeut would not De round
wanting. IntOnciasion the Earl Of KIM
berry said the government was pledged 20
take steps 10 bring about reform IN Ar
menia.
London. March ae.-The Times pub
llshes a long report on the Armenian
atrocities, written by a competent aad
trustworthy man who made q personal
Investigate don on the spot This report
was written in January, but arrived IN
London only yesterday. The writer SAYS
he Is convinced that both In 1888 and 1884
the Turkish government gave both oral
and written orders 10 the kurds 10 at
tack the Arnenians. promising them the
booty. and relieving them Of RESPONSE
biiity for the consequences. In the first
attacks made Dpon them. the Armenians
I'd - nd
Turkish help the Knrds would have been
unable 10 have gained a permanent VIC
tory. The knrds In the early skirTnishes
did no harm 10 women and children.
Even when melted ~ the Turks they did
little in comparison with the latter.
The account proceeds 10 confirm the
pit incident and the report OF the gov
ernor OF Bitiis reading the sultan's de-
crae ordering the kurds 20 destroy the
dianected villages, sparing nothing. for
their sultan and prophet This occurred
about the middle OF August. and the mas
sacre which followed beggars all descrip-
ton. The occldenials OF the nineteenth
century cannot comprehend It. Youths
were bound, covered with brush wood
and burned alive. Others were hacked
to pieces. At Shenig house filled with
fifty people was set on fire. and all were
cremated The officers forced their men
to acts of cruelty from which the latter
shrank A young priest at Dalvorig per-
suaded seventy OF his followers to yield
They were ordered to dig a trench. and
when enough earth had been thrown up
all were hacked 10 pieces and cast into
the trench. Priests suffered horrible
deaths. One OF them was thrown into
the air and allowed To fall on a number
OF bayonets that had been stuck upright
la the ground.
A correspondent who has recently made
a special Investigation OF the atrocities
attached great importance to the state
ment OF a kurd who killed many inno-
cent women and children In Sassoun. The
correspondent took this mans deposition
before respectable non-Armenian Wit
nesses. and from this deposition he tele-
graphed the following blood-curdilng ex-
tract: THE Turkish soldiers took little
children by the feet and dashed them
against stones. I saw an Armenian priest
tortured by squeezing his neck, gouging
out his eyes and tearing on his flesh with
pinchors. We hate that. we only stab
or bayonot or cut OF heads ] saw
Turkish soldier bind an old Armenian
head downward 20 two or three branches.
and slowly cut him through with an ak.
Armenians who implored protection and
surrendered were hufchercd az night The
Armenians were marched I'm. their heads
tied. and were bayonetted and fung into
the pit. I saw the soldiers take "a woman.
stand around her Joking her and making
bets as 20 the sex Of her unborn child.
she was then cut open, and the money
was paid 20 the scoundrel who had guess
ed rightly"