The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-16
MISERIES OF ARMENIA.
Kurds Continue Their Work Of Pill.
lage Without Interruption,
MANY GIRLS WITHOUT CLOTHING.

hho 'hbN n iAth
of Van Barefooted and Nearly Naked--It
Is Feared That the Sultan WIN Order
Massacre at Zeitoun.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Dec. 16.-The French
guard ship Faucon has arrived here, in ac
cordance with the permission granted by
the sultan, upon the demand of the
powers, and has joined the English gun
boat Dryad, the Italian war vessel Arohi-
mede and the Austrian gunboat Sebenico,
which arrived during the week,
The secondary effects of the outrages
perpetrated upon Armenians in the months
past are seen in the advices now being re
ceived from Anatolia, which dwell upon
the terrible distress existing everywhere.
A thousand fugitives have taken refuge in
Black sea ports, where they remain in q
deplorable condition.
The Kurds continue to pillage the Ar
menian villages without opposition from
the helpless inhabitants or from the au-
thorities. During the last three weeks 100
villages have been sacked and seventy
men killed. The villages of Serai, Hazira
Bohaskessen, Hadjikshla Linn and the
Armenian district of Haizalsor have been
laid waste The village of Lamasguird
has been raided four times in one week.
The authorities make no attempt what
ever to put stop to the Kurdish raids or
to punish the perpetrators of them.
1t is feared that the inhabitants Of mum
bers of villages, who had fed through fear
of threatened outrage and have taken
refuge at inaccessible points in the noun
tains, will perish during the severe weather
of the winter which is now coming on.
News is daily received here of thousands
of Armenians who are offered the choice
between Islam and death. At Marash an
Armenian who was ordained an Anglican
clergyman, refused the choice and was
killed by slow torture. At Kharpoot two
Protestant preachers and an Assyrian
priest was murdered for the same cause.
At Achme fifty 1.-TWO persons died as
martyrs to their religion. At Ouzoon
large number of Armenians were cap
tured and led to neighboring Turkish
village, where they were ordered to change
their faith Fifty Of them rushed into the
Euphrates and were drowned, the Turks
shooting them while they were in the
water At Hob eight-fve were killed.
The British vice consul at Van describes
the condition of the Armenians as being
too appalling for words Thousands of
women and girls are wandering through
the snow piled streets without shelter or
food, and barefooted, their ravishers hav
ing left them only chemise, and some of
them only a cloth to cover their naked
ness.
An eye witness of the barbarity of the
massacre at Kaisarieh on Nov 30 says that
men and women were literally hacked to
pieces TO the number of several hundred
Some of the Turks say that u thousand
were killed. Saturday afternoon several
thousand fierce fellows came from the Will
ages in the vicinity. Many women We're
abducted. The troops could have squelched
the business if they had desired to do So
The Armenians of Kaisarieh were always
quiet and law abiding. All this informa
tion is in the hands of the ambassadors,
with names and dates.
The Zeitoun tragedy is approaching an
end. At the Semanlik the sultan's secre-
tary informed Europeans that the Zei-
tounlis committed a horrible outrage;
that they has descended en- masse from
the hills, had burned the Moslem village
of Marli, and had killed every inhabitanU
This is foul lie, invented by IZzet Bey,
the clever Arabic scoundrel who now rules
the sultan and the empire. He maintains
his power by pandering to the sultan S
thirst for Armenian blood. Everybody is
aware that Zeitoun was surrounded by
troops and Bashi- Bazouks and that sucn
a sOrtie was impossible The object of the
| falsehood is to ALLEVIATE sympathy from the
| Armenians. This means that the doom
| of the Zeitounlis is sealed The sultan
means to seize an excuse to order their ex-
termination.