Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-11-27
Latest Outrages surpass i'll Horror Those Reported
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15,0O0 ARMENIANS
 MURDERED AT BLTLTS
Women and Children Distributed Among Rabble-Leading Men of ilusse Tortured to Death, and
 Their Women Outraged.

London, Nov. 26-Lord Bryce made public tonight fresh reports of Ar menian atrocities. which "surpass in horror" if that were possible. what has been published already.
 The evidence comes from an Ar menian gentleman at Tiflis, who re- ceived it from refugees from the regions where the events described happened ff
 "The sufferings of peasants and mountaineers in the regions of Van, Muss and Sasun seem to have been more terrible than those of the townsfolk."
 Many of these atrocities, Lord Bryce points out, are vouched for by several coincident testimonies. Fol lowing are extracts from Lord Bryce's charges:
 "In May, Djevdet Bey, the military governor expelled from Van, fled southward and entered Sairt with 800 soldiers. whom he called his butcher battalion He massacred most of the Christians of Sairt."
 "On the best authority, it is re- ported that he ordered his soldiers to burn in the public square the Armenian bishop, Egishe Vartabed- chaldcon. and Bishop Argaisher."
 "On June 25th, the Turks surround ed Bitlis, cut communication with the neighboring Armenian villages and took away most of the able-bod- jed men by ,domiciliary visits"
 Drive Hundreds Into River.
 During the following days, all the men who had beeen put under ar rest were shot outside the town and buried in deep trenches dug by them selves. The young women and chil- dren were distributed among the rab- ble. The remainder were driven south and are believed to have been drowned in the Tigris.
 "An attempt at resistance was quelled by the regular troops. Many Armenians after firing their last car tridges, either took poison by whole families or killed themselves in their homes in order not to fall into the hands of the Turks.
 "Thus the Turks disposed of about 15. .OO0 Armerians in Bitlis.'
 "At Musse early in July the Turk ish authorities demanded their arms from the Armenians and large ran som.
 Outrage Women Before Male Victims.
 "The leading men of the town. in cluding the head men of the villages, were subjected to revolting tortures. Their finger and toe nails were forcl- bly, extracted and their noses whit tied down. =,
 "The victims having been done to death under lingering agonies, fe- male relatives who came to the res cue were outraged before the eyes of the mutilated men, while the shrieks and death cries of the vic tims filled the air.
 "In Musse, the Armenians en- trenched themselves in the churches and store houses, and fought for four days in self defense. But the Turk ish artillery, manned by German or ficers, made short work of all the Armenian positions.
 mEvery Armenian was killed fight ing and when silence reigned over the ruins a Moslem rabble descended upon the women and children and drove them out of town into large camp.
 "The sordid means of disposing of the women and children in these con- centration camps was by burning them. Fires were set to large wood- en sheds in many Armenian villages and the helpless women and children were roasted to death"