Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-02
THOUSANDS MASSACREl
Details of the Recent 0utrages in Arme
MIA
Neither Age Nor Sex Was Spared
Turkey Trying to Conceal
the Facts.

Letters have been received by well-knowI|
parties in Boston from reliable sources Id
Turkey giving still further testimony RED
garding the outrages in eastern Turkey.
The following letter comes from a city
not a great distance from the scene of tho
outrages. The writer is a man in whon3
the highest confidence may be placed, Wild
mas spent more than q third of century
in that region and knows the country and
people perfectly. This testimony is FROM
a source which is entirely Independent oil
any which has been given before. Later
accounts increase, IL possible. the horrors
Of what has taken place.
The letter Just received is as follows:
Objected to Double Taxation.
THE Armenians, oppressed by Kurds and
Turks said they could not pay taxes to-
both Kurds and government. Piundered
and oppressed by the Kurds. they resisted
them. There we're some killed. Then false
reports were sent to Constantinople that
the Armenians were in arms in rebellion,
and orders were sent to the Mushire at
ErZngan to exterminate them root and
branch. The order, read before the army.
called in haste from all the chief cities of
eastern Turkey, was: Whoever spares man,
woman child is disloyal' The region
was surrounded by soldiers oil the army,
and 10000 kurds also are said to have beer
massed there. Then they advanced upon
the center driving in the people like a flock
of sheep, and continued thus TO advance
for days. No quarter was given, no mercy
shown. Men, women and children Were
shot down and butchered like Sneep.
Probably when they were set upon ir
this way some tried to save their lives anc
resisted in self-defense, while those who
could fled in all directions, but the majority
were slain. The most probable estimate Ii
1900 killed. thirty-five villages plundered
RACED and burned. Women were outraged
and then butchered. A priest was taker
to The roof of his church and hacked te
pieces and set on fire. large number o.
women and girls collected in a church wert
kept for days, violated by the brutal sol
dierS and then murdered. 1t is said the
number was so large that the blood flowed
out of the church door. The soldiers con-
tended over beautiful girl, whom they
wanted to preserve but she too was killed
Every effort is being made and will be
| made to falsify the facts and pull the wool
over the eyes of European governments
But the bloody tale will finally be known,
the most horrible, 1t seems to me, that the
| nineteenth century has known. As con-
firmation of he report, the other day sew
eral hundred soldiers were returning from
the seat Of war, and at a village near us
one was heard to say that he alone, with
his own hand, had killed thirty pregnant
women. Some who seem to have some
SilafHe Tor their atrOciOuS 0eeQS say w nat
could we do, We were under orders"
Mr.. Gladstone Thanked.
In consequence Of meeting of the Ar
menians of Boston held in Friendship Hall
| last Sunday evening. the following cable
gram was sent yesterday afternoon:
ITO Hon. William E. Gladstone, London,
| England: Armenians- of Boston thank you
| for your sympathy and aid"
nf BOSTON
mats of Europe will never take interest in
| the affairs of their countrymen unless 1t
| Is shown that every act in their favor is
keenly appreciated, and they take this
means of expressing their sincere gratitude
for the stand taken by Mr.. Gladstone in his
| speech last week