Arizona republican., 1915-11-27
y GRE TALE
 WORSE ETHANANY LD,SAYSBRYCE
IRepubuean A. p. Leased wireI

LONDON. Nov. 26.-Viscount Bryce made public tonight the details of further Armenian massacres. tyhicl in a letter accompanying them, he says "surpass in horror. if that were possible. what has already been pub Hshed
 T feel his letter continues. "that sucn crimes ought to be exposed tp the utmost and that the charity ol other nations will more than ever, be drawn to the unhappy refugees ] when it is known that their friends and fellow couutrymen have sui fered."
 Viscount Bryce says the details confirm and amplify the ghaStly hiS- .ory of deportatious bv which Ar meniaus in northern and eastern An atolia were driven to a death of Gendish cruelty. The first part ot the evidence. he says. was received by the committee of inquiry in the
 United Ststes. and the second part comes from an Armenian gentleman
 at Tifis. who received it from refu- gees who escaped from regions where
 the events happened.
 "The sufferings of the peasants and the mountaineers in the regions of Van. Mush and Sania." ViscouHt Bryce says. seem to have been even more terrible than were those of the peaceful town folk described in part one of the report. Every successive piece of evidence increases the hor- Tor of the story and confirms the dreadful certainty of its truth
 These atrocities were not produced by ina agination. Many of them are youched for by several coincideut testimonies. They ali are in keeping and the evidence is most complete and some of it most terrible. At this phase of events. the civilized world is powerless to intervene. but We must bear these unsnea1able crimes in constant memory against | the day of reckoning
 After giving the narts of the evil | deuce received from the United States Niscount Bryce says that the ! following extracts were taken from his correspondent at Tiris. Toward the end of May Dievdet | Bey. the military governor was eN- | pelled from Van. DjeVdet fled south
 ward and entered Sairt with some | 5000 soldiers. whom he called ! "hutCher battalions." He massacrcd most of the Christians of Sairt the | details of which nothing is known. | On the best of authority. however. | it is reported that he ordered his ! soldiers to burn in the public squares | the Armenian hishop Eglise VartaveG and the Chaldean bishop Addai Sher On June 2 the Turks surrounded ] the town of Bitlis and cut its com munications with neighboring Arme- nian villages. Then most or tho 1 ablc-lodied men were taken away | from their women by domiciliary ] visits. During the following few l days all the men under arrest were | shot outside the town and buried ! in deep trenches dug by the victims ! themselves. The young women and : children were distributed among the 1 rabblc The remainder. the useless i lot" were driven to the south and are believed to have been drowned in. i the Tisris.
 Any attempts at resistance. how 1 ever brave. were quelled by the regu- | lar troops Many Armenians. after | firing their last cartridge either ] took poison by whole families or ! killed themselves in order not to fall | into the hands of the Turks | Tt is in such fashion that the ! Turks disposed of about 15.00O Ar ! menians at Bitlis. At Mush. early in 1 July. the authorities demanded arms 1 from the Armenians and a large sum i in ransom of notables of the town. | The head men of the village were | subjected to revolting tortures. Their
 fingernails and then their toenaile
 were forcibly extracted; teeth were
 
 ! were Whittled down. The victims
 { thus wait for death under shocking | lingering agony.
 "1he female relatives of victims l who came to the rescue were as
 l saulted in public before the very eyes Continued on Page Three)