HORRORS OF MOSUL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 259, 2 November 1925, Page 7

HORRORS OF MOSUL.

THE TURKISH INFAMIES. CRUELTY TO CHRISTIANS. HELP SORELY NEEDED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 1. The Mosul correspondent of the "Times" describes the plight of between two and three thousand Christians who escaped from Turkish deportations along the Brussels line and are now taking refuge in Bcrsine and Zakho, says: "Tbe majority are foodless. Many have only one garment for protection from the weather, which is wet and very cold. The Iraq Government is doing its best to feed them, aided by the Royal Air Force and other Mosul units, who are sending money and clothing, but unless substantial European help is forthcoming the refugees must gradually die otf. "At present they are living in rude, temporary bootiis and army tents. They utterly lack possessions of any sort and have no bedding. These Christians were eating acorns when I saw them, and many were ill. They related terrible stories of the Turks' atrociousness and callousness and barbarous brutality. Old men, women and toddling babes were killed because they did not march fast enough. Most of the .deportees are reported to have been distributed among Kurdish chiefs, who gave receipts for them, and many died of starvation. — ("Times.")