The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-05-04
EST STORY
OF THE ORGY OF
LUST Az ks!M!!E &sR!ME
Awful Details of the Ten Dea.
of Terror in Asiatic
Turkey
THE FORMATION Of THE
new GOVERNMENT CABINET
Some Of the Old Members Will be Re.
tained and the Plans Indicate That
the New Regime Has Taken Long
Lease of Power.

Constantinople, May 4-The new
cabinet probably will be organized as
follows: grand vizer, Hilmi Pasha:
minister of interior, Ferid Pasha;
minister of justice, Kakki Pasha;
minister of public instruction. Ami
Bey; minister of mines and forests,
Artist Pasha.
The other ministries will be retain
ed by the last incumbents. Both
Kakki Pasha and Ami Bey are men,
bers of the committee of union and
progress and it is expected that this
cabinet, being thus brought into har-
mony. the present political situation
will have a long lease of power.
Tarcus, Asiatic Turkey, May A.
Authentic details of the atrocities
committed by the fanatical Moham-
medans in the villages and farms in
this district are now coming in to
Tarsus with sickening abundance.
The worst particulars of these narra-
tives cannot be mentioned, but they
set forth without doubt that at least
ten thousand persons lost their lives
In this province, and some estimates
place the total casualties at $4,000.
Villages like Comanich, Bazsche, Ho-
nadish, Kara, Kristian, Keoy and Ke-
Zolow were actually wiped out Each
of these places had populations of
from 500 to 600 people. In one town
of 1000 people there are fewer than
100 left, nearly all women and chill
dren. 1t was the same thing with
hundreds of chieftliki or farms, that
dot this wide and fertile plain. The
slaughter was unsparing, even Greeks
and Syrians were struck down with
the Armenians. Entire families were
burned to death in their homes. Hun
dreds OF girls and women were mall
treated and carried off to the harems.
A correspondent was informed that
at one place a party of 100 Arme-
mans surrendered to the soldiers.
The prisoners were taken to an open
field where the women were ordered
to stand apart from the men, Every
one of the men were then shot. In
many cases they were shot to death
with their women clinging to them
trying to save their lives. A large
number of women were wounded be-
cause of their persistancy. Sixty men
who were brought down into this dis
trict from Hadin are now held as
slaves. Young Turks arriving in Tar
sus are trading Armenian girls for
horses and modern repeating rifles
The entire ten days seem to have
been an insensate orgy of lust and
violence in the name of race and
religion. In the massacres Of four
teen years ago there was no such de-
sire to kill women and children as
has been evidenced in the last ten
days. Now, however, there have
been numerous instances of the mur-
dering of women and children with
deliberation, and there are other in
stances where women were brought
out one by one and shot down. the
hystanders clapping their hands at
each fresh execution.
Famine Near
The local authorities are giving
today four cents day for each refu-
gee in Tarsus. There are about A.
900 refugees here and this sum does
not suffice. The government allot-
ment is being supplemented by funds
Of the American missions. The To-
cal officials say they are soon going
70 discontinue their contributions,
and if this is done there will be a
famine. The yard Of the American
mission house looks like prison
pen. The men wander around all
night trying to keep warm. The wo-
men and children sleep on the floors
Of the school rooms. Very few of
them have beds. There have been
four births at the mission since the
refugees came in.
.dassacres Continue.
Adana, May 4.-Adana is still law
less More people were killed in the
city yesterday. There are 10000 dead
in Adana province as the result of the
massacres, and $4,000 homeless and
penniless refugees are wandering in
Vilayet.
AFTER SUGAR NOW
New York. May Criminal prose-
cutions by the federal government