The Telegram. — 1895-03-26 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

MAN.  Then the colonel said, "What should be done to one who so misleads the people?" The kehaya, antweriug himself, said, "Kill me if you will ; I take the responsibility of all that has been done by us." tionisune (he did not know whether a soldier or an Armenian) cried, "Let him be blinded be has already been blind." The colonel then gave the order to "Take out his eyes," and one of the soldiers prized them out with his knife. The kehaya then elided, " Let toe die," and three soldiers bayonetted him in the body. Then the people who had followed him were led aside, and were given food. They rejoiced that their sorr.ws wore at an end. The next day inure people came in. During the second day a detachment of the troops iva.s engaged in digging two big trenches at the base oi a steep cliff that formed the side of a narrow ravine at the foot of the village. At Vie bottom of this ravine was a small i.tieani, and in the rides were caves where the inhabitants of the villages went sometimes to store their hay. At sun-down on this day the soldiers were paraded, and the officers, passing along the lines, gave orders an follow :—" From the first buluk (company). 10 odd numliers four paces to the from" From the second 'mlak, 15 even numbers four paces to the front.' "Fr an the third huliik, live csid numbers (double figures) four paces to the trout." And so on through ail the ciiimpanies assembled. Then the soldiers went back to their bivouaca and their evening meal. But the selected men were ordered to sit and eat apart each group from a company separately. When the night Man fully dark officers came along and ordered : "Selected men of the 1.4 compinycome this way." They were then marched forward to the foot of the valley. There at the cliff edge of the ravine they found a number of villagers. Men, women, children, sometimes 20, sometimes 50, sometimes 70 or more. An officer then detached from the villagers& Isitchuf ten or twenty, and gave theorder: "KILL THEM; AND THROW THRM THERE! "'  The, selected soldier' then bayonetted these villagers, and threw their bixliee into the trenches at the base of the ravine. This werrt on every night from a week to ten days. Soinctiines thrrie to four hundred were killed in this way in a night. tionietiines a tench linviller uninber. Asked whether there were many children among them, the man aoswered " Very many"; buttliankedGod that he had not hail to murder any one of them. I then nveiheard his own friend say, "And how many did you kilir And he whispered back, " God know& It may have been five. Is may have been seven. Whtt could I do? I had my orders." Asko(' whether many children were among the slaughtered, he replied that " the aoldiers raised infants on their bayonets as one lifts the sheaves of corn on the pitchfork, and flting them thus into the ravine as one toisses bay on to the waggon." Asked whether the soldiers liked Ibis hideous work, he groaned and rolled his bead trim side to side for a while before replying. Finally he said, with a drviiairing shrug of the shoulders, " were soldiers ; what could we do ?" He added that if any of them hung back the Bey menaced them with his sword and revolt, r. He gave thanks to God, he said, that he had him. self killed no children. Asked whether after this any more villagers were killed, he hist hesitated, and then said "No." Finally he admitted that there were still some further murders. Asked whether during the whole of the fighting there had been many casualties among the regular troops, be replied that : " From first to last he had never heard of any soldier being even wounded, much less killed, and that he did not believe that anyone among the whole force had in any way suffered. Many Kurds," he added, "were undoubtedly killed, more_ especially in the earlier days of the adray." • • • •  Asked whether he had ever w:len any other kind e fighting, he said "No," and added that " By God's grace, be would never look upon bloodshed Win."  - C s • 0 • opera -•is about this lurid story a dreadful aim*Leta* render. comment altogether onneassPRW -