The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-27
WHATCAN BE WORSE?
Review of the Horrible Atrocities in
the Armenian Country.
MADE TO EAT HUMAN FLESH
Baby Roasted Before Its Mothers
Eyes, and Many More Similar
Actions = Preparing to
Obtain Revenge.
MADE TO EAT HUMAN FLESH
Copyrighted 1895 by the Associated Press.

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connrmation of the facts contained in
my announcement of the impending
uprising OF the Armenians in Turkey
next month. l have Travelled many
miles in search of certain facts. and
as result have had the satisfaction
OF actually seeing and handling some
or the rifles now being smuggled
across the Turkish frontier by agents
or the revolutionary party. Moreover.
the plans of the party have been fully
explained to me by some of the most
active and intelligent of the leaders of
the eastern wing of the movement, and
! am now entirely satisfied. unless un-
ioIseeh circumstances arise. the up
rising will take place as announced.
The exact date has not vet been
fixed, owing. for the most part. to the
fact that the extreme section of the
revolutionary party is not ready for
active operations. Whether or not the
| central section will wait for the east
| ern wing longer than the month of
| may, DO not know, nor has the mat
ter actually been decided. 1 am asked
TO believe that the eastern wing cam
not be ready for hostilities in Nav and
possibly not before the first of July.
The eastern wing has been having a
hard time of 1T, owing to circumstances
over which the leaders have no control.
In the first place the mountain passes
leading to Van have been blocked for
months, so that only special messeng-
| ers, IolloWlng the regular routes of
| travel. could get through. and there
| fore 1t was impossible TO follow with
guns and ammunition from Russia
and Persia to the district about Lake
Van. There are now guns on the bord-
| er awaiting transportation into Ar
menia.
In the second place, the Armenians
In the eastern end of Turkey are in a
condition bordering on starvation 1t
is obvious that the people in this con-
dition cannot fight. On this point the
leading executive of the revolutionary
party said to me three days ago: IF
the men have nothing in their stom-
achs what will they do? We must
feed them before we can expect them
10 hight. When we can get food
enough on hand to last them two
months, then we shall show the world
how Armenians can fight" 1t is in
the question of food that the revolu-
tionary leaders will find more difficult
of solution: the problem of smuggling
guns into Armenia will be solved with |
the coming spring, which is now just |
beginning to be felt in the lower val |
leys. 1t is plain that if no food is to |
be had the people cannot be fed, no |
matter how much money they may |
have, and 1t is a fact that in the east |
ern portion of Armenia food is so |
scarce that the well-to-do and rich |
people have no more food than they |
actually need.
Few crops were grown last summer,
owing to the fact that many of the |
farmers and cultivators We're thrown
into prison by the Turks under charges
of revolutionary conspiracy. Then cat
tie were Stolen by the Kurds, and what
the poor people had left in the way of |
provisions or property was seized by |
the government officials for taxes
There will be no crops planted in east
ern Armenia this spring, for the coun-
try everywhere is suffering from a
reign of terror. The presence of the
commission Of inquiry at Moosh and
of the Christian powers of Europe have
had absolutely no effect on the conduct
of either the Turks or Kurds in East
ern Turkey.
1 am just in receipt of trustworthy
advices from a non-Armenian source at
Van to the effect that a massacre is
looked for at any moment. 1t is a fact
which the British government can ver-
ify by consulting the report of Mr.
Patton, an official of the British con-
sulate at TebriZ, Persia, that in sew
eral cases the Turkish officials in the
devastated district of Armenia tried
hard to save Armenians from death
and their property from destruction,
but when they protested against the
murderous raids of the troops, the
officers read to them the orders Of the
sultan, and so nothing could be done.
Mr. Patton has lately returned to Teb-
riz from an investigating tour among |
the Armenian refugees along the border
between Turkey and Persia He found |
plenty of refugees from the Lake
Van and Moosh districts, but not one
from Sassoun. There are no Sassoun I
survivors in Ouramia. Salmis, Ditiman,
Khoi, Tebriz or any other place in Per- s
sia. and so very few in Russia that {
they are most difficult to find. The !
absence of Sassouns among so many {
refugees from other districts of Eastern ,
Armenia suggests the dreadful possi- &
bility that few of these people escaped q
the massacre. The investigation of Z
Patton along the Persian border has [
confirmed in a general way the facts G
which / have incidentally obtained G
during the past eight weeks. The
events of the massacre were so horrible q
that even the chronic exaggeration of /
the Armenian mind fails 10 add any a
thing 10 them. Mr.. Patton was ac- q
on this tour of inspection 7
BY Doctor Wright, an American mis- a
sionary. stationed at Salmis. 1
Thes7 gentlemen took testimony 70 5
he effect that when the Turkish sol e
Hers and Kurds appeared at a certain n
-illage they collected some Of the yII- r
ayers who dared 70 protest against the C
,utraEes, and many Of the dead men Z
we're cut up and thrown into a kettle
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