The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30
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Crueitioei Arc lnnlcteo upon Tnom "
the turks.
BosToN, Jan. 25.-A letter has been
received here from Bostonia in Con-
stantinople in which the correspond
ent writes that details of individual
cases Of butchery, deception, lying
and apostatizing are daily coming to
hand. One poor woman from village
near Arab bkir writes to her husband in
this city and bewails that her whole
village has turned Moslem and that
she is compelled to write under her
new Turkish name.
Another woman writes to her hus-
band here from Arabhir, where out of
1000 Armenian houses only $50 remain;
where 1000 Armenians were slain and
where some 1900 souls are now hud-
died together in the remaining $50
houses; writes how the husbands
father, with a family of nine,
raised and paid to their Moslem
neighbors on their demand $11O for
protection; how, on the second
day of the massacre those Moslem
neighbors came and told the family
they could protect them no longer un-
less the family accepted the "True Re.
ligion" (Mohammedanism); how, there
upon, the woman fell at the fathers
feet and begged that she might be
left to die for Jesus and not be COM
pelled to apostatize; how the father
commended her, and said that he too
was ready to die for Jesus. which
soon after he did; how on the
third day of the massacre the family
o., <,1l 4 6n
Moslem neighbors to run to the Arme-
nian reading room, which they did,
and on account of the press found
there only standing room for six days
and nights; how after the six days the
Turks told them to go back to their
home, which they found utterly
stripped, though it had not been
burned, because contiguous to Mos
lem house; and how. finally, with forty
persons in a room, the family re.
NAMED in utter destitution, terror and
despair.
Such is one Of the numberless tales
of woe coming to the thousands OF
Armenians in this city. The work
of compulsory apostatizing is being
carried on so rapidly and to such an
extent that by the time the Red
Cross agents get there the Turkish
authorities will probably tell them
that in certain provinces there are
no Christians to be helped. The day
| Of doom for the Armenians seems to
have come; at least in the six prov
inces which were to be reformed. The
Armenian community at Adiaman has
been almost entirely obliterated. Out
of 800 Armenian houses and A, 600 souls
$50 were destroyed and their inmates
massacred and only twenty houses
were spared by reason of their apos.
tatizing.
1t is clear that in some places in the
interior, few if any Armenians will be
left for the missionaries to labor for
Nowhere will the apostatized Armeni
ans dare to come near the missionar
les. Another letter says:
1.-THE sultan clearly means to make
Asia Minor a purely Mohammedar
land, and thus, as he thinks, to ge
rid of European intervention. He
has still to kill or make to apostatizt
at least three million Armenians
Greeks and Catholics. But he hal
made such progress the past three
months, and has been so completely
free from European or American inter
vention, that no doubt he is great,
encouraged Unless God removes hin
we see no possible deliverance for th'
remnant of Armenians save through ,
Russian occupation"