Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-01

had been dubbed to death.
Only SO Escape Out of $50.
"A few days after this" reads the
narrative. they were told that for
safety each family of women and chill
dren was to go to the house of an
Arab. The Arabs robbed them and
stripped them of their clothing and
sent them back to the Circassians,
who commenced at once to kill them
with knives, women and children,
about $50 in ALL. Twenty-Five boys
and eleven girls were saved and taken
to the tents of the Circassians, and she
was taken with her sister to the viii
lage OF Gerbelleh. where she was beat
en- because she did not give them gold
they believed she had
After having been kept a while by
a Circassian, she and her sister were
sent to another Chechen and then to
the house of another Circassian, in
Shegrush. She is now in the orphan
age at Aleppo, and her sister is in an
Armenian house in Nusebin.
800 Naked, Blistered by Sun.
Other incidents evidently dealing
with this terrible journey of the Ar
menians to Shedadieh were related to
girl of seventeen, who was a pupil in
the American girls school at Ada
Bazaar. in the western portion Of
Asia Minor, near Constantinople. She
spoke English. AT Shedadieh,' the
narrative says, she saw a party of
800 men. women and children, all
naked. 1t was in July, and their
backs had been blistered by the sun,
and many of them had bruises all over
their limbs and bodies and sores
caused by the beatings they had re-
ceived. During the heat of the day
they would lie covered in the water
as the pain in the sun was unbearable.
Before she arrived at Shedadieh
two of her brothers died at Bah and
her father at another place. AS the
Arabs were taking only unmarried
mother told them she was married. At
Shedadieh her mother was sold to one
Arab and she to another, and the girl
lived in his house for a year.
Saw Hundreds Perish by Sword.
"She ran away, and an Arab girl
took her into a tent where she stayed
for eighteen months. when she again
ran away and finally reached Muse
bin"
This journey from Ada Bazaar across
Asia Minor to DER Ees-Zor occupied a
year and half. according to the story
told by another girl of seventeen
years. Arpeneh Der Harutunian
daughter Of teacher in a high school
at Bardizag, a bright. intelligent girl
whose family was known to DR.. Ken
nedy. Reporting her story of the jour-
ney DR.. Kennedy wrote:
Her grandfather was killed before
1. eIa1 hak
and 800 men shot and cut down by the
sword. These men were bound in
groups Of ten. arm to arm. She saw
at the same place women and children
killed with reconstructed clubs or
knives The bodies were afterward
soaked with paraffin and set on fire
This was done by Chechen Circas-
SLAMS on the side Of a hill near She
dadieh.
Played Alive, Thrown Into River.
About 100 young Armenian men
who dressed as girls were discovered
and put to death by the Chechens. One
Of these was f1ayed alive and thrown
into the River Habour.
After this the Circassians would
not allow them to get food. and two
weeks later they were sent to Sivaria-
Marian 'Gumushjian bribed the
into the desert. Arpeneh was taken
to the tent Of an Arab and kept for
eight months, when she escaped with
the assistance of her younger brother.
During her stay. Arpeneh moved from
place to place as the Arabs changed
the tents for better pasturage for
their camels. She was firmly bound
and held to the ground by Turkish
soldiers while her face was being
tattooed. The family was united aft
erward with the exception of the
father. who disappeared at DER Es-
For"