The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-04
ATROCITIES BY THE TURKS IN ARMENIA
 FULLY CONFIRMED
{Continued from Fage one)

possession of the Armenians. Telling of the expulsion of the Armenian in habitants, he writes:
 They the mem were sent off to- ward in groups of from 80 to 15O. Various reports have been cirou- rated, the only one generally accepted being that they were killed.
 "On July g. before the order for the expulsion of the women was car ried out went to the govern ment to protest He was told that the order came from those higher up.
 "rhe panic in the city was terrible The people felt that the government was determined to exterminate the Ar menian race. Many convicts had been released and the mountains around
 were full of outlaws. It was feared that the women and children were taken some distance from the city and left to the mercy of these men. The women believed that they were go- ing to worse than death and many carried poison to use if necessary"
 In a similar description of scenes at- tending the expulsion of Armenians from another community, writer says:
 By July all the Armenian houses in - about 1000 had been emptied of inhabitants and the people sent off. number of lighters have been load ed with people at different times and believed that such persons were drowned.
 In nearby village. says the same writer he was informed by reliable witness that 45 men and women were taken a short distance from the yil- Iage into valley. the women violated and the men shot.
 "The 1000 Armenian houses" the ac- count continues. "are being emptied of furniture by the police, one after the ether. A crowd of Turkish women and children followe the police about like lot of yultures and seize everything they can lay their hands on.
 Bodies Burned
 "A number of bodies of women and children have lately been thrown up by the sea upon the sandy beach below the walls of the Italian monastery here in - and were buried by Greek women'
 l From another Armenian town an au- | thority reports: These poor exiles were mostly women, children and old men and they were clubbed and beaten and lashed along as though they had been wild ani- mals About 900 have passed through, all more dead than alive; many hundreos have died from starvation and abuse l along the rOduSlue, anu ncdiiy oii "i V dying of starvation and thirst | Recorded as the testimony of the widow -- of narrowing story Is given of the experience of party or some 800 Armenians.- She and her daugh- ter escaped death by accepting the Mo- ha ammedan faith, she says.
 We had got only two hours away l from home when bands of villagers and brigands, with rifles, guns. axes, etc, | surrounded us and robbed us of all we | had. The gendarmes took my money and | that from my daughter. After this, they | separat ted men, one by one. and shot them all within six or seven days-every male above 15 years of age. These bandsmen took all the good looking women and carried them off on their horses. Very many woS,en and girls were thus carried off to the mountains. among them my sister. whose -year-old baby they threw away Turk picked it up and carried it off, know not where.
 Wholesale Slaughter
 "We found on the road many of those who had been in previous sections. Some women were among the killed with their
 husbands and sons. We also came across
 some old people and little infants still alive in a pitaiable condition.
 The worst and most unimaginable ter
 TOTS were reserved for us at the banks
 of the Eurphrates and on the Birmingham
 plain. The mutiated bodies of women
 girls, and little children made everybody
 shudder The bandsmen were doing all
 sorts of awful deeds to two men and girls that were with us. and whose cries
 went up to heaven. At the Eurphrates
 the bandsmen and gendarmes threw into the river all the remaining children un der 15 years of age. After seven days
 we reached Not an Armenian
 was left alive there The Turkish womer
 took my daughter and me to the bath
 and there showed us many other womer and girls who had accepted Islam. Be
 tween there and - the fields anc
 h'llsides were dotted with corpses