ARMENIAN MASSACRE.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 8992, 3 January 1895, Page 5

ARMENIAN MASSACRE.

A report was received on November 18th by the London Times from Syria, reporting that Ezeki Pana, a Turkish Marshal, with a detachment of Janissaries and a field battery massacred 2000 Armenians at Sussoon. The bodies of the dead were left unburied, and this caused an outbreak of ,- cholera. Many Christians fled across the* Russian frontier. Numerous appeals havt been made by the Armenians to the British Foreign OSice, and the energetic action of Mr Philip Curre, tbe British Ambassador to Turkey, has caused consternation among the members of the Turkish Government. Everything has been done to keep secret the fact of the outrages. The Saltan has decided to send a Commission, composed of three members of his military household and one civilian, to Li Sussoon for ' the purpose of making an impartial enquiry into the outrages on the Armenians. The Turkish official account of the Armenian trouble says some Armenian brigands, provided with arms of foreign make, joined an insurgent Kurd tribe for the purpose of committing excesses, and burned and devastated several Musselman villages. The Ottoman troops punished them severely before they were able to re-establish order and tranquility.