The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-04
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SLAIN By
MOSLEMS
Details Of MaSSaCres
Near Tarsus and Adana
Coming In.
AWFUL SLAUGHTER
OF WOMEN AND BABES
Villages Burned and American
Schools Are Believed to
Be in Ruins.
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MEN ALL SHOT DOWN
AS BYSTANDERS APPLAUD
Soldiers. Told to Throw Water
on Fires, Use Kerosene
Instead. Z
MEN ALL SHOT DOWN
AS BYSTANDERS APPLAUD

ADANA Asiatic Turkey, Monday Nay
3. via Larnaca, Cyprus. May 4--Adzna
is still lawiess. More people were killed
in the city yesterday. There are 81. 900
dead In Adana province. as resuit OF
the massacre and $1,000 homeless and
penniless refugees are wandering ia
the vilayet
The deaths IN Adana ciry alone are
estimated at $500.
Adana Is terrorized BY 1000 soldieyv.
who are looting. shooting and burning
No respect is paid 70 foreign properties.
Both the French schools have been de-
stroyed. and 1t Is feared that the Amer
lean school. commercial and misxionary:
interests in Adsna are totally ruined.
The troops here are making a pre*.
tense Of throwing water on Tie ssanness
instead OF water they Use ketussle. ana
are thus purposely adding to tie con-
flazration
Apprehension IL felt here rexnrainG
the American nsissienary statisnn -
Hsdjin and Tsrsus.
AL letters and kilograms sent oays
through Turkish channels are censored
TARsrJs. Asiatic Turkey, Saturday.
April "a. via Constantinople, May {.
Authentic details Of the atrocities com
rnttted by the fanatical Mohammedan<
in the villages and farms in this dis
trict are now coming into Tarsus with
sickening abundance The worst par
ticuiars of these narratives cannot be
mentioned, but they set forth without
doubt that at least 10000 persons lozt
their lives in this province. and the
casualty list win probably reach 2S.o0e
Villages like osmanieh. Bazsche.
Hamadieh. Kara, Kristian. Keoy and
KezoIook were actually wiped out
Each of these places had populations ct
from 500 to 600 people
In ono town of 1000 persons there
are less than 100 left. mostly wvnsen
and children.
Greeks and Syrians were struck down
with the Armenians.
Entire families were bursed to aea1k
In their homes. Hundreds OF girls ans
women were carried on. ~
shot in Open Field.
AZ one place party of 100 Ar7nonians
surrendered to the soldiers. The pris.
oners were taken TO an open field
where the women were ordered to stand
apart from the men. Every one Of the
men was then shot.
In mnny cases tho. were done 70
death. with their women c1fngjnE 10
them. trying to save their Hives.
The entire ten days seem to have
been en fnsensste orgy OF lust and vip-
lence in the name of race and religion.
IN the massacres of fourteen years aSD
there was no such desire TO kin women
and children as has been evidenced in
the last ten days. There have beer
numerous instances OF the numbering
Of women and children with delibsra
ton, and there are other instances
where women were brought out one by
one and shot down. the bystanders
clapplng their hands at each fresh exc
eutiop.
Like Prison Pen.
The yard of the American mission
house looks like a prison pen. When
the captain Of French man-of-wsr in
Mersina came up to Tarsus with s
number of officers on a visit he called
at the mission house My God" l7e
said; ''this Is terrible Where do ali
these people sieep?r
A large number of sacks of bullion
have been found at Yildiz Kiosk. These
were deposited at the ministry Of war
1t is stated that the life of the chief
eunuch. Nadar Agha. win be spared be
cause he has consented to point Out
where the treasure is concealed II
the search in Yildiz Kiosk 500 pianos
were discovered and nearly 10000 re-
volvers, the property of Abdul Harnid