The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-16
NEERIES or ARMENIA
Kurds Oontiuns Their Work Of Pill
lags Without Interruption.
MANY GIRLS WITHOUT CLOTHING

wandering Through the snow Piled streste
Of Van Barefooted ana Nearly raked--It
il Feared That the snitan wm Order .
Massacre at zciteun.
CoNsTASTlNopLE, Dec 1e.--The French
guard ship Faueen has arrived here, In &C.
cordancs with the permission granted by
the sultan, upon the demand Of the
powers, and has Joined tho English gun
boat Dryad, the italian war vessel Archi-
mode 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-
ceiyed from Anatolia, which dwell upon
the terrible distress existing everywhere.
A thousand fuaitives have taken refuge in
Black sea ports, where they remain. in
deplorable condition.
The Kurfs continue to pillage the Ar
menian villages without opposition from
the helpless inhabitante or from the au-
thorities. Daring the last three weeks 100
villages have been sacked and seventy
men killed. The Villages Of Serai, Hazira,
Bohaskessen, HadiikishIa Lin and the
Armenian district OF Haizalsor have been
laid waste, The village Of I.amasguird
has been raided four times in one week.
The authorities make no attempt what
ever to put stop to the Kurdish raids OF
to punish tho perpetrators OF them.
It Is feared that the inhabitants Of num-
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 WIS murdered for the same cause
At Achmc fifty two persons died as
martyrs to their religion. At 0uzoon q
large number of Armenians were cap.
tured and led to neghboring Turkish
village, where they were ordered to change
their faith Fifty Of them rushed into the
Euphrates and were drowned, tho Turks
shooting them while they were in the
water. At Hob eight FIVE 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
Lub SNOW pfitu BLftetS WltDOub SneIEer OF
food, and barefooted, their ravishers hav-
ing left them only q chemise and some OF
them only cloth to cover their naked
ness.
An eye witness Of the barbarity of the
massacre at Kaisarieh on Nov. 30 Gays that
men and women were literally hacked to
pieces to the number Of several hundred
Some OF the Turks say that thousand
were killed. Saturday afternoon several
thousand fierce fellows came from the Will
ages in tho vicinity. Many women were
abducted. The troops could have squelched
the business IL they had desired to do so.
The Armenians of Kalsafieh were always
quiet and law abiding. All this informat
tion ID in the hands of the ambassadors,
with names and datea.
The Zeitoun tragedy is approaching an
end. At the Semanlik the sultan's secre-
tary informed Europeans that the lei.
tounlis committed a horrible outrage;
that they has descended en- masse from
the hills had burned the Moslem village
of MaFli, and had killed every inhabisant.
This is a 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 suitans
thirst for Armenian blood Every body is
aware that Zeitotin was surrounded by
troops and Bashi- Bazouks, and that such
q sortie was impossible. The object of the
falsehood is to ALLEVIATE sympathy from the
Armenians. This means that the doom
of tho Zeitounlis is sealed. The sultan
means to seize an excuse TO order their ex-
termination