Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-02-04
TELEGRAPHIC.
THIS FROM ARMENIA .
Impartial Report Of Tho Conditions 10
That Country.
FORMER REPORTS CONFIRMED.
Infamous Crimes tho Order OF the Day
Along the Kurdish
Frontier.

LONDON, Feb. "a letter has bssn
received here from the special cor
respondent tf the Associated Press who
was sent TO Armenia from London to
investigate the reported Armenian
atrocities and who at present 10 In
Armenia.
The correspondent spent week or
more in Constanllnople before starting
fer Armenia, during which time he
Investigated the reports current there
and continued his Journey. His letter
contains tho first authentic news from
Armenia direct, ana sayt;
"Whntever tecrois may lie undof
tho snow on the Armenian mountains
Il seems beyond dispute from VIVA. |
have heard from many lips that the
published stories Of ferOcious butchery
and red horror on tho 5asiouu Villages
have At least reasonable foundation
Of truth"
But there are two sides to tho Az.
menian story:
"But no matter what HIGHT We
throw upon the upasmodic wlokedness
OF tho Turk or upon tho ingenious
dsviltry Of the revolutionary oonsplra.
tors, we nnd that II Is still the innocent
that suffer most.
"For instance, Il IL reported that as n
means OF melting the Turks 10 commit
outfagee that will bring down upon
them the wrath of a civillzsd world,
Armenians have thruht gun cartridges
Into the bodies Of living Turkish men
and women and have exploded them,
and that la the case Of one man, a holo
was made Iuot below the bones OF the
cheat for the insertion OF quantity VI
gunpowder, which was then ignited aa
a sort VI bomb.
"rheso facts are known nc the
embassies NJ Conslantinoplc, anu
probably they have been transmitted
10 reports TO tue various govern.
ments.n
The correspondent also remarkE
The impartial ruth OF the Bassoun
massacre will probably never DO known,
for the dead tell no tales, This IL what
happened:
"Certain Armenian peasants 10 the
number Of several thousand were tend.
lug their herds and flock In their SUM
mer pastures In the Sassoun mountains
along tue borders OF kutdislau. A
short time before tho villagers were
ready TO return 10 their homes In the
valleys with their fst.enod cattle
band of Kurdish bandits, iudustriously
searching for n winters supply VI pro-
visions, raldod their stock. The VII
layers and their Kurdish protectors
made vigorous defense. They would
have ended II, hut before the fight was
over the Turkish government came
into the affair and thun tue real
trouble began. Some OF them tsle.
graphod that n conspiracy was IN pro-
gtess among the Armenlans In the
mountain villages and the order came
straight from tue palace;
"Punish this villagers to the utmost
Extremity"
The massacre began. The Ar
menians were slain without mercy,
man, woman and child. The outrage
OF Armenian women and children by |
the Turks In that part OF the country Is |
90 common thing, even nj times Of |
absolute quiet that there eau be no |
doubt that this massacre was attended !
With outrage and atEooity too horrible
10 think Of.
"Tho Armeniana 10 Athens and |
ConsthntinOplo assert that fOrty.twO |
villages were destroyed and nearly |
10000 persons massaoreu; but more |
impartial anu equally informed per-
sons put the number nj twenty-five |
Villages and from 1000 to 5000 por.
cons killed. The exact number Will |
never be known.
"As for tho Turkish commission, It
IL such fraud that II 10 a waste OF |
breath TO talk about It,"
The state OF morals In Armenia, and |
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