The Irish standard., 1909-05-08
10000 MASSACRED
SLAUGHTER on CHRISTIANS BY
TURKS IN ADANA PROVINCE
CONTINUES. -"
SOLDIERS TERRoRIzE CITY
Girls, Traded for Horses and Rifles by
the Troops, Who Shoot Down Nom.
on and Children at Tarsus-Hana
13 Murderers!&
Soldiers .Terrorize Adana,


Adana May Alabama is still law.
!. less. More people have been killed in
the city, There are 10000 dead in the
/ Adana provinces as a result OF the
massacres, and $4,000 homeless and
penniless refugees are wandering in
the vilayet. -
The deaths in Adam city alone are
estimated at $500.
Adana is terrorized by 1000 soldiers,
who are looting, shooting and burn:
ing No respect is paid to foreign
properties.
Tales Of Horror Told.
Tarsus, Asiatic Turkey, May A.
At least 10000 persons lost their lives
in this province. and some estimates
place the total casualties at $4,000.
Villages like Osmanieh, Bazsche,
Hamadieh, Kara, Kristian, Keoy and
Kczolook were actually wiped out.
Each Of these places had populations
of from 500 to 600 people. In one
town of 1000 people there are less
than 100 left, nearly all women and
children.
The correspondent was informed
that at one place party of 100 Arme-
mans surrendered to the soldiers. The
prisoners were taken 10 an open field,
where the women were ordered to
stand apart from the men. Every one
of the men was then shot. In many
cases they were done to death with
their women clinging to them, trying
to save their lives,
Young Turks around Tarsus traded
Armenian girls for horses and modern
repeating rifles.
Hang Thirteen in Streets.
Constantinople, May 4.-Thirteen
civilians and soldiers, sentenced by
the military courts to death for MUIR
der, were hanged in different parts
of Constantinople yesterday.
Maj. Youssef,, his son and three
other men who killed the Syrian dep.
uty, Emir Mohammed Arslan. in front
of the parliament building, were exc
cuted on the spot where they COM
mitted the crime. Five others were
hanged at the entrance of the minis
try Of war, and three men at the
STEAMBOAT end Of dhe Galata bridge.
Among these three IL said to be Mou-
rad, editor Of the newspaper Nizam.
Upon the breast of each criminal had
been pinned large placard in Turk
ish setting forth the sentence of the
court. Around the foot of the gibbets
on the bridge the buying Of fruits,
flowers and vegetables proceeded as
usual, while tho bodies were in full
sight of the great crowds that made
their way over the bridge between
STEAMBOAT and Galata.
Guilty Of Ellis Murder.
Maj. Youssef was commandant Of
the First battalion of the Seventh regi-
bent. Among the non-commissioned
officers executed was Hamdi Bin
Yechar, sergeant in the Fourth bat
TALON of the Saloniki chausseurs. The
men executed ON Galata bridge were
guilty of the murder of Lieut.. Ellis
Documentary evidence has been dis
covered among the records of the tel
egraph office here Of the knowledge of
the Constantinorle authorities that
massacres had been planned for the
Adana district, and that they were to
coincide with the political events
here.
Other papers have been found indi.
eating also that the conspirators at
the palace acted in the sultan's name
in preparing the military mutiny Of
April 10. Lists Of houses with notes
on the kind Of loot to be found there.
in, were discovered on some of the
prisoners now in custody The ar.
rangements. included general mas
sacre of foreigners in Constantinople,
including the diplomatic representa-
tives, on April "a.
The Turkish cabinet resigned yes
terday. The political situation is be
wildering, and no one can tell what
the outcome will be.
1t 1s stated that the new sultan con
templates making tour of the Asatic
provinces OF the empire.