The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-12
ARMEN|ANS RESORT TO CANN|BAL|SM
 UNDER AWFUL TURKISH OPPRESSION
Heartrending Story of Dy- ing Christian P eople- Girls Sell Themselves to Arabs for Bread Street Dogs Are Killed and Eat en-Turkish Cruelty Ex- terminating Entire Race.

New York. Oct. 12-Cannibalism by famished victims of Turkish cruel ty, according to letters reaching the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.
 These messages draw a heartrend- ing picture of the remnants of chris tian peoples, driven far from their homes to die by hunger, disease, v1o- lation and torture. The committee withholds the names of the senders, for obvious reasons.
 The first message. dated Der For, Sept. 3, reads, in part:
 "TeII our missi sionaries that their college children. young men and girls, are dying of hunger. To look at them breaks ones heart.
 "But I am not thinking of myself, but of the crowds of children out side, that are crying for bread, of the many pure young girls who, driven by hunger and loneliness at home, seek refuge at the hearths of Ara bian men, to whom they are sold for bread: the women, the mothers, who are wandering about in despair to find bread for the little ones; the young people, who, weakened by hun ger, appear like old people, premature ly aged.
 ''We must daily buy back at least three or four young girls, else they will be completely lost.
 ''The people kill and eat the street dogs. A short time ago they killed and ate a dying man. An eye wit ness told me this.
 'I saw woman. who from the street ate the clotted blood of an an- imalI Up till now all feed themselves with grass, but that, too, is now dried up.
 Last week we came to a house of which the occupants had not eaten anything since three days. The wife had a child in her arms and tried to give it crumb of bread to eat. The child could eat no more, it groaned and died in her arms. In this very momeht I came in with G., he gave her a lira. The woman toon~it and then cried in 4ears:
 'Ah, if you had brought this only one day earlier, my child would have been still alive.''
 "A mother threw herself into the Euphrates, after she had seen her child die of hunger; a father did the same"
 A letter from Haman, dated Sept. 1, reads:
 Many families have eaten noth- ing for several days and do not have the courage to beg. The number of such families indreases from day t6 day. What will be the end? If it goes on like that much longer. the greater part of the people, perhaps all, will perish of hunger and misery.
 "The people fight for the clotted blood of killed animals; they gnaw the bones which they find on the dung-hills; they look for grains of oats in dung. to eat them; they eat the flesh of fallen animals and men. Many who cannot bear it any long CT, throw themselves and their chil- dren into the >Euphrates"
 Writing from Sepka August 27 an- other correspondent says:
 With this letter I come to vou as the representative of many prayers and cries of need. I ask for a crowd of more than 2.5oo miserable hun gry people, dried up to skeletons. Many were already here, crowds of new ones, have 'beep added. Many die Of hunger every day. The grave diggers are always busy. The groans and lamentations in the market place. in the streets. and out in the oniet desert give-~out hearts no rest. The children on the dung-hills, An! What am I trying(to describe! hTe pen fails me! beg for help for them-for