MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2732, 30 July 1915, Page 6

MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS.

WHOLESALE ATROCITIES IN ASIA MINOR.

BEITISH WARNING TO TURKEY;

LONDON, July 29. In tho House of Lordß, Lord Bryee asked for confirmation of his -informal, fcion concerning the extensive massacres of Christians in Armenia, and whole-

sale deportation into Central Asia Minor and the desert parts of Mesopotamia. The Turks in one district shot all the men and took all tho women and children, . numbering 9000, and drowned them in the Tigris. The Turks were apparently aiming at the extermination of the Christian popula- . t ion.

Lord Cromer said this state of affairs was attributable to recent German influence.

The Archbishop of Canterbury said he had received appalling accounts of massacres on the Turco-I'crsian frontiers. The Russian occupation was happily bettering the "situation.

Lord Crowe said he could confirm these stories. Tho Foreign Office in May had informed the Ottoman Government that its agents actually implicated would bo held personally responsible. The crimes had since increased, both in number and atrocity. Therehad been wholesale massacres and other outrages, and deportation under the guise of enforced evacuation of villages, in some cases Gorman officials had countenanced and encouraged these crimes. The presence of Germans in Turkey had been an unmitigated curse to both Christians and Moslems. There was no immediate remedy, and ;he could only emphatically promise punishment.