Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-27
Former British Ambassador to
United States Makes Public
Result of Recent Inyest.ga-
tons.
GERMAN OFFICERS
WITH TURK FORCES
Command Artillery Which Bat
ter Down Defenses Men
MassaCred and Women
Outraged,

London Nov &c tl0 D. ml VH.
count Bryce tonight made public tho
details 81 further Armenian nuwn-
cres. which. iu "a letter accompanying
them, be says 'surpass n horror. i
that were possible what haa been
published already
Il feet hits letter continues Chat
such crimes ought 10 be exposed io
the utmost ana that tho charity OF
other nations viii more than over
be drawn 10 the unhappy refugees
when Il IS known what their friends
and fellow countrymeu have suf-
fered
Horrible Details Confirmed.
Niacouni Bryce says The details e0n-
firm ana amplify tho CHASTITY history
Of deportatona by which Armenians
in northern and eastern Anatolia were
driven 20 death OF hcndish cruelty
The first part Of the evidence, ne
says. was received by the committee
Of inquiry IN the United states. ana
the second part comes from an Ar
menian gentleman at Tifis who re-
ceiyed II from refugees from regions
whore the events happened
"Tho sufferings Of The peasants and
the mouniaineers la the region 90
Van, Mush and sanun' Viscount
Bryce Hays. seem 20 have been even
more terrible than were those of the
peaceful townfolk described in part
one OF the report Every successive
piece Of evidence increases the horror
Of the story and confirms the dread
ful certainty Of its truth.
Day OF Reckoning Waits.
These atrocities were not produced
by Imagination Many Of them are
vouchod for by several concident tess
timonies. They an are in keeping and
The evidence Is most complete and
some Of Il most terrible AZ This pres
ent phase of events, the civilized world
i sNefiess 10 Intervene but wei must
bear these unspeakahlo crimes in con
etaht memory against the day OF reek
oning'
After giving the parts OF the cvi' !
dcnce received from the United states,
Niscount Bryce says that the follow
ing extracts were taken from his core !
respondent at Tiflls.
Two Bishops burned.
Toward the end of May Dicydet
hey, the military governor was ex
PEELED from Van. pjeydet fled SOUTH |
ward ana entered Sairt with some 3
GOO soldiers, whom he called butch /
or hattallona." He mnasacrea most
Of the Christians OF sairt the "details
Of which nothing is known On tho
best OF authority. however. 1t is re- /
ported that he ordered hH soldiers 90 /
burn In the public squares the Armen- /
ian bishop. EgliRo Vortayed and the
Chaldoan bishop Addai sher
Men Are Massacred,
ION June 2a the Turks surrounded (
tho town OF Bitlis and cut its conn
munications with neghhoring Armn /
ian villages Then most Of the able
bodied men We're taken away from
their women hy dumielliary visits /
During tho following few days, AN thoI
men under arrest were shot outside
the town and buried Bon deru trenches |
dug by the victims themselves The
young women and children wore dis
tribuied among the rabblo The re-.
maindor the useless lot were driven
20 the south and are believed 70 have /
been drowned in the 1iEris
Families Commit Suicide.
Any attempts 9t resistance how. /
ever brave, were uuellcd by the rcgu.
lar troops Many Armenlam, u0w
firing their last cartridge. either took |
poison boy whole families or killed /
themselves On their homes u order not
20 fall into the hands OF the Turks
II rs in such "a fashion that the /
Turks disposed of about $4,000 AR /
menlans al Biuia AZ Mush early nl
July, the authorities demanded arms
from the Armenlans and large sum
in ransom of nolohlcs 81 the town .