KHURDISH KOLTUR.
APPAIXDfG ATROCITIES ' BY GEBMANFS at.ttt-« ■_' (Times and Sydney Son (Received 8.30 ajn.); '/.' LONDOK, March 22. Appalling aeconnte of tin-condition o* the Armenians have been Deceived from, the Armenian Red Grose Society. The plain of Alashgird is covered with, bodies of men, women and children, frozen in pools of their own blood. Women an* children half alive creep-front beneath the- ■ corpses and the ruins of houses. When ■ the Russians retreated the JKurds shut ur, - everybody in the mosques and killed the men. After making the-women and girls go through untold agomef the Kurde stripped them and stood them against a wall, whilst they eelected those" the* wanted. These were placed ea horses and ' taken away. Those resisting were mere* .. lessly beaten. One hundred aad twentj thousand people are destitute in the Caucasus. . . .
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1915, Page 5
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