The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-04-24

ton and decided to interview ne
French General to learn the plan Of
campaign. and 10 lay before him some
facts that had come to our knowledge
regarding the massacre Of the Arma
nians in the Cummbed quarter of
Ma1a9h. This was me region from
which we had seen the ArmeniaHs
running for their lives across the fields
In order to be fortified with the actual
facts as coming from the mouths of
eyowitneSses we interviewed the pee
ula who had escaped the massacre
They tod uo narrowing stories. One
woman sow seven killed before her
eyes. Mo hers had children taken ont
Of THEN arms and ripped UP with
HALVES. One man said two hundred
perished In one street The shrleks
Of The tortured VIC could hear q mile
acrcss the raYine, which they had
t. cross to reach our compound Others
gave similar accounts OF awful eX.
'periences We laid these facts before
the General and his sar. who Listen
ell very respectfully, aud said the sit
uation was very grave, and that they
would take strenerous measures to
cope with it. Wounded soldiers are
being brought to our hospital, and
several operations have been perform.
ed. Yesterday the Mutaserif was re.
leased from French custody for the
purpose Of Interviewing the leaders
and bringing about a cessation Of hos
tilities. He went back to the Govern.
ment building under the protection Of
Waite flag, with an ulcimatun from
1.-THE General that il the Turks did not
Surrender in "a hours he would bonn
bard the city. Today The Mutaserif
colephoued 10 Headquarters that e
was Impossible for him to prevail
with the leaders to cease operations,
az be mad no control over them and
was even IN DANGER OF his own life.
"a ;hree o'clock when the time for the
u tinatum had expired, we heard The
are besieged by an inevitable army
There are few enemy aoldierl IN sight
and hese are seen only through cur
gla-a5s, RAINING for cover, or hurryins
ont OF their trenches or atealing over
The mountains in little groups 60 reach
the city We have not been out Of our
compounds FOR seven days. and even
behind our own wal We are not safe
against attack The French have nc
whalssa no Ger1plauas no telegraph
no arm0ured cars and 10 make the sit
nGtion worse. neither food nor ammu
n Jon for an extended siege They
have to conserve their supplies, moi
knowing how long he siege may las,
ct whether the rest of Turkey Us In
the same state Of war or not They
are doing all they caa undor the cir
cumstalces, but with the small force
Of troopl under their command they
cannot make an attack on the city
cipher from the General asking that
supplies and re.enfcrcemcnts be sem
Immediate r Whether they vii
reach their Gestina ion or not We dc
not know 1t Is risky business a. the
whole country is In q flame OF revolt
How soon the issue viii be decided
il Is hard to determine. The caplr,
of the ast two caravan Of munitions
and foods,uds by bandii5 between
iarash and Aintab make that way o
escape or reIief impossible. Bu
while the days are exciting the 'nign,.
ARE increasingly 10. For while Oh,
great guns are booming soldiers are
creeping 5tealthiy forth win banzInC
torches and hand grenales to set fri
(To be Continued