Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-04
Facts sofArmenian
 MassaCres Public
GIVEN OUT BY COMMITTEE or
 INVESTIGATION
HORRIBLY ATRocIoUs
Men Put to Death. Women Violated and chiIdr.n Slaughtered ' For Fisndi.hnsss surpassss Anything in History.

History.
 dence of the atrocities inflicted by the Turks upon the Armepians was made public tonight by the committee form ed by Charles R. Crane, Cleveland H. Dodge and others to investigate the facts of the Armenian massacres and ferers.
 unquestEonable Evidence.
 The committee states that the evil dence was collected. from sources that are unquestioned as to. the veracity and authority. of the writers, but that not be given and in most cases names of towns and cities must be con ceaIed.
 Torture and Starvation.
 Quotations are given in the commit tees report from 24 sources. some of which give detailed descriptions of in- stances where Armenians have been put to death. women violated and chiI dren slaughtered. of robbery. torture and death by starvation, and of terri Die privationS endured in long marches to the desert regions to which the Ar | scribed by the committee as surpass- Ing in their horror and cruelty any thing that history has recorded during the past thousand years"
 | Bodies by Roadside.
 The idea of direct attack and mas ! sacre. carried out in former times" says one authority. writing under date | of Aug 8. has been altered somewhat in that the men and boys have been deported in great numbers and dlsap- | peared en route. and later on the women and children have been made to follow. For some time stories have been prevalent from travellers arriving | from the interior of the killing of males and of great numbers of bodies along the roadsides and Coating in the Euphrates river; or the delivery to the kurds by the gendarmes accompany- of all the young members of the par ties of unthinkable outrages commit | ted by gendarmeo and Kurds and even the killing of many victims- At frs, these stories were not given much are now driving In - no doubt
 remains of the truth of the matter ! Wholesale Deportation- II Describing under date of June 20 the wholesale deportation of 26, 00c
 Armenians. inhabitants of Zertoun, to
 the Konieh region. Aleppo and places in Mesopolamia. one writer gives the
 text of the Turkish government order giving authority for the expulsions. Il reads:
 "The commanders of the army. oi independent army corps and of di-
 visions may. in case of military neces-
 sity, and in case they suspect espion- age or treason. send away, either singiy
 or in mass. the inhabitants of villages
 or towns and install them in other
 places"
 Horrible Brutality. Il The orders of the commanders.
 says the writer. may have been req sonably humane, but the execution oi necessarily. harsh. and in many easel
 accompanied by horrible brutality tS women and children and to the sici
 and the aged. Whole villages were de Il ported at an hours notice. with no op- portunity to prepare for the journey
 not even. in some cases. to gather to- gether the scattered members of thu family. so many little children wer. |. left behind
 Driven Like Cattle. , "In many cases the men were bound
 tightly together with ropes and chains
 Women with little children in thei arms. or sn the last days of pregnancy were driven along under the whip lil1' cattle"
 Another writer tells of the cruel us' of the bastinado in a certain prisos where Armenians were held. Hot Irons on Chest. "At the time of the Romans" h. writes, 40 strokes were administere' i at the very most; in this place. how 2 ever 200, 800. 500 and even 500 stroke were administered. A young man wa beaten to death within the space o , five minutes. Apart from the bastina
 doing, other methods were employed
 too. such as putting hot irons on tn
 chest"
 ' Another authority describes the us . of the bastinado and fire torture il the efforts of the Turkish authoritie l, In an unnamed town to extract infor ; mation as to arms in the possession Q the Armenians. Telling of the expul sion of the Armenian inhabitants. h writes:
 They (the men) were sent off tow
 ard - in groups of from 30 to 15t
 Various reports have been circulated
 that they were killed. One Gree driver reported seeing the mound un
 der which they were buried.
 Expulsion of Women. "On July 9th, before the order fc s the expulsion of the women was car e ried out - went, to the govern . ment to protest He was told that tn }, order came from those higher up. Panic Was Terrible g "The panic in the city was terribI,
 The people felt that the governmen ; was determined to exterminate the Ar = menian race. Many of the convicts C |, | o,,+Iar,-. rt -,-.. S..-..s ,,,at n. ,v-,v,