El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-29
BRYCE TELLS Of
TURK MASSACRE5
SAYS Women and Chi lren
of Armenians Burned to
Death; Men Slain.

London, Eng. Nov 29.-HithertO IN
published details Of Turkish massacres
of Aremnians, surprising in horror
anything that has previously been
known of the killings. were given out
Friday night by viscOunt Bryce, for
mer ambassador to the United States
THE sufferings Of the peasants and
the mountaineers in the region Of Van,
Nush, and Sanun." viscount Bryce says.
seem to have been even more terrible
than were those Of the peaceful town
folk Every successive piece OF evi-
dence increases the horror OF the story
and confirms the dreadful certainty Of
its truth.
These atrocities were not produced
by Imagination Many Of them are
vouched for by several coincident tes-
TONNES They all are in keeping and
the evidence is most complete and some
Of il most terrible At this present
phase Of events. the civilized world is
powerless to intervene, but we must
bear these unspeazable crimes in con-
slant memory against the day Of reck-
oning."
After giving the parts Of the evil
dence received from the United States.
viscount Bryce SAYS that the following
extracts were taken from his cores
pendent at Tiflis-
bishops Burned Mt Snirt.
Toward the end of May, Djevdet
Bey, the military governor. was ex-
PEELED from Van Djevdet fled south
ward and entered Sairt with some 5000
soldiers. whom he called Butcher bat
talions' He massacred most Of the
Christians Of Sairt, the details Of which
nothing is known. on the best OF au-
thority. however. it is reported that he
ordered his soldiers to burn in the pub
lie squares the Armenian bishop. ESltse
Vartaved, and the Chaldean bishop, Au-
dai Sher-
Men shot ut Bidis-
"On June %. the Turks surrounded
the town Of Bitlis and cut its cpmmu-
nicatiOns with neighbOring Armenian
villages. Then most OF the ablebodied
men were taken away from their wom-
en-. During tho following few DAYS. al
the men under arrest were shot outside
the town and buried in deeD trenches
dug by the victims themselves the
Young women and children were dis
trihured among the rabhle- The re-
7nafnder the useless lot we've driven
to the south and are believed 10 have
been drowned in the Tigris-
some Armenians TOOk Poison.
ANY attemDts at resistance, however
brave. were quelled by the regular
troons Many Armenia1s. after firing
their last cartridge. either took noisOn
by whole families Or killed themselves
in their homes in order not to fall INTO
the hands of the Turks.
NafIs Pulled Out: Noses Whitfield.
Ut is in such q fashion that the
Turks disnossd of about Is 600 Arme-
niansiat Bills At Hfush. early in July,
the authorities demanded arms from
the Armenians and q large sum in ran
som of notables OF the town The head
men Of the village we're subjected 10
revolving tOrtures- Their finger M rs
and then their tOenails were forclDly
extracted: teeth were knocked ont, and
in some cases noses were Whitfield
down, the victims thus being done 70
death under shocking incering agony
FeraIeS AssauIfed in Public
THE female relatives Of TictlT1s VINO
came TO the rescue were assured u
public before the very eyes OF tnstt
mutflated men The shrieks and deatn-
cries Of the victims fHled the ayr YET
thev did not move the Turkish beasts
= IN the town OF Mush. -the Arme-
mans. under the leadership Of Gotoya1
and others. entrenched themselves ~
rchurches and stone houses and rougnt
for four DAYS IN self-defence. ouI the
Turkish artillery. manned by German
officers made short work OF all the
Armenian positions and every one OF
the Armenian leaders as well as their
men. were killed in the fightinC.
when they were dead ana silence
refered over the ruins Of the churches
and the houses. the rest Of the Moslem
rabbIe descended on the women ana
children and drove them OUT OF toWl
and into large camps which ALREADY
had been prepared for the peasant
Women Burned to Death.
ssThe -hastly scenes which followed
may seem incredible. yer these rspOt =
nave been confirmed beyond all doubt
The shortest means employed for as
posine Of the women and chluren IN
ne ,-arious camps was by burning.
Many womec went mad, and threw
away their children Some women
ICneIt down and prayed amid the flames
which were burning their oodles-
Others shrieked for help, which came
from nowhere. and the execuuoners'
who seemed unmoved by TINS unpar-
aHeled savagry, Erasped infants ny one
les. and hurled them into the Ilre' SalI-
mo ont TO the burning mothers, there
are your little ones
Turkish prisoners VINO apparently
witnessed some Of these scenes were
Mortified and maddened at reIneInoer-
inq- the sight. The odor Of burning
flesh. they say, permeated the air 1of