Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-03-29
WITHOUT A PARALLEL.
Confirmation Of Stories Of Awful
Doings by Bloodthirsty Turks.
Women, Children and Unborn
Babes Slaughtered.
kurds Killed Outright, but lhs Turks Delighted
In Terrible Torture

LONDON, March 29.-The Daily News
Shis morning publishes . long account
from o Turkish source, confirming the
stories OF the Armenian outrages. Ed
itorially 1t says: The bare facts will have
their natural effect on all who are respon-
sibls to our relations with . power which
Is the very negation OF God.
A correspondent investigating the oir'
cumstances Of the atrocities perpetrated
An Armenia recently attaches great I'm.
portance to statement Of Kurd who
killed many innocent women and chill
dren In Sassoun" and with whom he ''ex-
changed daggers." The correspondent
took this mans deposition before respect-
able non-Armenian responsible wit
nesses, and from this deposition hs tele-
graphed the following blood-curdling ex-
tracts:
"The Turkish soldiers took little chill
dren by the feet and dashed them against
stones. saw an Armenian priest. Sol
diers tortured him, squeezed his neck,
goughed out his eyes and tore OF his flesh
with pincers. We hate that; we only stab
or bayonet or cut of heads We dislike
needless pain. saw q Turkish sergeant
bind an old Armenian head downward to
TWO or Lnree DrunCnes duQ olOWty CuI
him through with an ak.
'Armenians who implored protection
and surrendered were butchered at night.
] saw 1t done The soldiers stood In double
lines of three on each side. The Arms-
mans were marched in,
Their Hands Tied.
and they were then bayoneted and flung
into the pit. Not all were dead who were
in the pit.
II saw the soldiers take woman and
stand around her, joking and making bets
as to the sex Of her unborn child. She
was then cut open and the money was
paid to the scoundrsls who had guessed
rightly" The correspondent telegraphed
the details on this revolving deed, but the
paper suppressed them as being too hor-
rible for publication.
Continuing. the Kurd said: "The
Kurds killed people with bullets and dag
gers but the soldiers delighted In torture
They put some to death with scissors, cut.
ting them and opening veins In the neck.
Others were sawn, others had their
tongues cut out, eyes gouged out and sew
eral fingers cut of before death. saw
men and women thus mutilated, and they
laid about the camp for two hours before
they were killed"
The Times Story.
The Times publishes o long report on
the Armenian atrocities, written by
competent and trustworthy man who
made personal investigation on the spot.
This report was written In January, but
only arrived In London yesterday.
The writer says he is convinced that
beth in 1893 and '9i the Turkish govern
ment gave both oral and written orders
to the Kurds to attack the Armenians,
promising them the bounty and relieving
them Of responsibility for the conse-
quences. In the first attacks made upon
them the Armenians defeated the Kurds.
Undoubtedly but for Turkish help the
Kurds would have been unable to have
gained permanent victory. The Kurds
in the earlier skirmishes did not harm
women and children. Even when melted
with the latter.
The account proceeds to confirm the
pit incident, and the report of the
governor Of Bitlis reading at Djellye-
goozan the sultan's drman ordering the
Kurds to destroy the disaffected villages
sparing nothing, for their sultan and
pEOpueU. lutS OCCuETcQ dDOuU JQc
OF August, and the massacre which fol-
lowed
BegCars Ali Description.
! The Occidentals of the 18th century
cannot comprehend 1t. Youths were
bound, covered with brushwood and
burned alive. Others were hacked to
pieces. At Shenig house filled with 30
men, women and children were set on fire
and alI were crcrnated. The officers forced
their mon 70 uo..s Of cruelty from which
the latter shrunk.
A young priest at Dalvorig persuaded
20 Of his followers to yield. They were
ordered to dig trench, and when enough
earth had been thrown up, all were hacked
to pieces and cast into the trench. Priests
suffered horrible deaths. One was thrown
into the air and allowed TO fall on num-
ber of bayonets that had been stuck u2-