The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-08-13

ALLY ALASKA CITIZEN,
 bodies of some of the men she knew. They had been dubbed 10 death.
 A few days after rhis," reads the . narrative, they were told that for safety each family of women and ! children 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 10 kill them with knives. women and children. about l5 in all. Twenty-One boys and eleven girls were saved and taken to the tents of the CirCassians and she was taken with her sister to the voltage of Gerbelleh. where she was beaten because she did not give them gold they believed she had"
 After being kept a while by a Cir cassian she and her sister were sent to another Sheggrush She is now in the orphanage at Aleppo and her sis ter is in an Armenian house in Muse bin
 Other incidents evidently dealing with this terrible journey of the Ar menians to Shedadieh were related to Dr. Kennedy by AraXa Barutiian, q girl of seventeen who was a pupil in the American girls school at Ada Bazaar in the western portion of Asia Minor near COnstantinOple. Sh" spoke English "At Shedadieh," the narrative says, "she saw party of 300 men. women and children all naked. It was n July and thct' lacks had been bli.tsreed 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 unbeara- ble
 Before sine arrived at Shedadieh, two of her brothers died at Bab and her father al another place. AS he Arabs were taking only unmar ricd girls from among the refugees, her mother told them she was mar riod. At Shedadieh her mother was sold to one Arab and she to another and the girl lived in his house for year:
 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 DeirEsZor oc- cupied a year and a half, according to the story told by another girl of seventeen years, Arpeneh Der Haru- tunian. daughter of teacher in a high school at Bardizag, a bright intelligent girl whose family was known to Dr. Kennedy Reporting her story of the journey Dr. Kennedy wrote:
 "Her grandfather was killed before her eyes and she saw between 200 and 300 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 l.,l f1l1 he knives. The bodies were afterwards soaked with paraffine and set on fire. | This was done by Chechen Circas- sians on the side of a hill near She dadieh
 About 100 young Armenian men who dressed as girls were discovered and put 10 death by the Chechens. One of these was flayed 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 Siva- ria Marian Gumushjian bribed the Chechens not to send them further into the desert Arpeneh was taken to the tent of an Arab and kept for light months when she escaped with the assistance of her younger brother. During her stay Arpeneh moved from
 l2ce 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 afterward with the exception of the father who disappeared at Deir-Es- /oro