MASSACRE IN ASIA MINOR.
8,000 ARMENIANS PERISH
G UEE.K TURN COMING. HORRORS IN CILICIA. (By Cabie.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Itercivetl 10..10 a.m.! LONDON, November 23. Tlie report of Colonel Rawlinson, lately released by the Turks, received in London, gives an appalling account of tile conditions in Asia Minor. He says that !),000 Armenian prisoners from Kars were employed in labour gtings in the neighbourhood of Erzerum. All perished except 800, and the victims were replaced by Greeks deported from" the coast districts, whose deaths in the winter Colonel Rawlinson considers certain.
Over thirty thousand men, women, and children have fled from Cilicia to the coast, mostly in a starving condition. They relate terrible atrocities committed by the Turks. A British steamer at Mersina has taken aboard several hundred refugees. (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 280, 24 November 1921, Page 5
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