Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-29
1000 CHRISTIANS
VICTIMS OF KURDS
AND M0SLEMS

isS soaa,aa JoURssl ssscis, lHssro wiHsI
New York. April 2S.--Dctails OF tho
massacre of native Ghrlstians at Uru.
miah. Persia. by l<urds. received to-
day by the Presbyterian board OF for
eign missions state that not less than
1000 have perished from these at.
! lacks The attacks, IL would appear
| have not been confined TO kurds, but
/ have been made, in at least one in
stance, by Turkish soldiers. Cruel
! flxlon and burning Christians alive
( have been revived. missionaries re
ported 70 the board
The attack In which Turkish sol
diefs were the assaianis, according TO
reports received by the board, was
made upon the American mission and
the French Roman Catholic mission
Five native Russian priests. the re-
ports assert, were taken from the
American mission by the Turks The
missionaries stated that these men
were treated badly and added that
Il was not known to them If the
priests were hanged
A report had reached the Presbyte-
rian missionaries al Tnbriz that Amer
leans az Urumiah had boon forced TO
pay $4,000 as a ransom for refu-
gees whr had fled 10 the mission for
protection This report, II WAS stated,
had not been confirmed
These ANA other matters pertaining
90 Urumlah were related la two let
ters received today from III. w. S.
Nannemun. OF Salem ~ j.. head of
Che Presbyterian mission hospital at
Tabrlz and chairman of the relief
committee appointed by the Amefi-
can consul there.
Atrocities pcrpctrnied.
Writing from rabriz under date Of
March A. Dr. Vanneman snid
'Ahout ten days ago the kurds in
Salinas, with the permission of the
Turkish troops, gathered all The Nea-
torian and Armenian men remaining
there, u N reported about 500, -Four
hundred were sent to khosrovn and
400 to llaft Dewan under the pre-.
tense OF giving them bread They
were held few days and then all of
them tortured and massaored Many
Of the women and children We're TAX
en- away and III treated This hap
pened dag or two before the ad
Mncing Russian army took Salinas.
we are very anxious about ur-
muiah, 4 letter dated March 1. from
pr Shedd Othe house director with
A. Shedd Of Marietta, %, came
through hy MESSENGER two DAYS ago,
Tie said things were getting worse.
6ulpshnn, which hitherto had not
been disturbed bS the Kurds as II had
not fought against them, had been /
plundercd aud ruined. 1 think this
vas The only village which remained !
FIFTY one Of the most prominent men
OF this village were taken ont at night I
20 the cemetery and shot The women
and girls who could not escape were /
violated This Was done 10y the Tdrk /
leh soldiers
Forty men had been takou from
q Roman Catholic mission In Uru- I
miah city. kept prisoners, few daNs, /
then were taken at night two miles I
from the city and shot. There We're !
sixty cases OF Bphoid among refu- /
gees.
Wholesale Murder Common.
Or, Shedd asked the American I
consul nt Tahriz to come to rrnmiah |
but aztec consulting with three other
cnnsuls here. II was decided II would I
be impossible TO get there, MIR pad |
dock has telegraphed every possible /,
place for assistance. We can do
nothing more
We hear hut do not know If true /
that tfrumiah he's been forced to pay I
$40 600 as q ransom for the refugees
ana We fear 4 Is true Dr Shedd /
writes that not less thRn 500 had been (
Ia Urumiah ana not less
than 5000 had died of disease. This 1
applies TO Christians only, This ia 4 I
very large percentage as more than
half " the Christians fled TO Rus
STA
Under date OF March 81, DE- Van /
heman wrote as follows
We are more anxious than ever
about Vrunlah On the nth, Turkish 4
lfeops attacked our mission and the (
Roman catholic mission and took
I've native Russian priests from our
compound and treated them badly
we DO not know vet If they We're
killed Nh Alien was ALSO treated /
badly because he had sent out three
The safes OF the Catho-
lie mission were burned and they
we're an in great DANGER We received /
word from Ambassador Morgenthau I
that orders had boon sent "a TRUMAN
60 protect christians but the order
wHs tugt toe hate We arr working g.
got All che remaining Christiansl
away from urUmiph,
Some " the uatRo Christian 4
preachers have heen crurified and +
some burned bat these were Of other
denominations The budV az nr Al.
salonl's son ga native physicianl who
had been buried three years was talk
en- up and dishonored This was done
tfy the owner of Villages be wh.ch ho
was overeeer This mar has returned
aHd # preaching u holy war,
IL the Russian troops should he
again, every Christian
would have to leave rahrin
~ 40 nos believe the real condi.
ton Of affairs Is comprehended IN
America. u n practically the eXter-
mination of the Syrians (Nesturians)
and very had for the Armnnians al
20 The onty hope is occupation byl
Russia