Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-25
Barbarous Slaughter q
Assyrians by Persians
d Kurds.
men End BOYS SHOT,
SyOMEN OUTRAGED
.nty Thousand Either Dead 81
Missins-sueesssfuIIy, Fought As
saiiants While Ammunition lasted-
American Mission in Dsnssr-aais4
sion Physician Saves Lives es aooo
by Unfuriins American Flag.

THIS, wednesday, Marcn ga VIZ
Petrograd, March 25.--Telegrams and
letters reaching here from Urumiahs
in northern Persia, describe the situaa
tion OF the American Presbyterian mis-
sion stationed there as desperate. Per~
sian regulars and kurds are persecut>
ing and massacring Assyrian chriss
tians.
The Kurds ordered all Of the As
syrian males into the streets, tied them
in groups Of five. marched them to the
graveyard and killed them barbarously
to the last boy.
Girl babies and older women were
then executed with Srca. a.rocst!es,
while the younger women were cars
ried away as slaves.
Thousands Of Assyrians Dead.
AS result Of the war 10000 As
syrians are taking refuge In the Cau>
casus, and 1000 are described a. in
imminent danger at the Urumiah mis-
sions. while 10000 are dead or missing.
The Assyrians fought their assailanto
bravely and as long as they had ann
munition they were victorious.
The missionaries are untiring in their
effort to help the people and are
spending their money TO this end fres-
ly. Disease is prevalent among tho
refugees. i
u. s. Protests 20 Turkey.
The situation at Urumiah already
has been taken up with Turkey BY the
Photographed American AmbAaDo6oR
~ H., - AtsAAv -
the protection OF the missionaries Sand
the refugees.
Previous dispatches from B5ulfa,
Persia, have described tho danger -
Urumiah but none of them has gfven
so much detail as the message from
Tifiis.
The American missionary station
there is maintained by the board Of
foreign missions OF the Presbyterian
church Of the United States Of
America. The mission was established
in 1895 1t was transferred to tho
Presbyterian board In 1871. The force
normally at Urumiah consists OF fve
clergymen and one physician, with
their wives and four single women.
American Doctor Hero.
Harry +. Packard. the doctor OF the
missionary station at Urumiah OF tho
board of foreign missions Of the Pres.
byterian church risked his life in .
successful effort to prevent a massacre
at Geogtapa, where 5000 Assyrians
made their last stand. They fought for
three days and all their ammunition
was gone. AT this iuncture DR.. Pack
ard unfolded an American flag and ad-
vanced between the lines. His act
saved all but 200 OF the Assyrians.
who had been burned In church.
CIereymen Hanged.
Fifteen thousand Assyrian christians
have taken refuge under the protec-
ton Of the American mission, while
1000 were at the French mission. A
dispatch received at Tiflis yesterday
declared that seventy Turkish regular
troops had entered the mission. hanged
the orthodox bishop. Mr.. Ella, and four
clergymen and beat and insulted
missionary named Allen. Shortly be-
fore the sixty refugees had been
dragged from the French mission and
executed in spite OF the fearful pleas
of the nuns.
At Guipashan, the Kurds were par
ticularly cruel. This was the last Of
the total of lo3 Assyrian villages to
hold out, and it was occupied month
ago.