ATROCITIES IN ARMENIA.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15339, 24 July 1915, Page 10

ATROCITIES IN ARMENIA.

APPALLING ALLEGATIONS. THOUSANDS BUTCHERED. (Received July 23rd, 8.15 p.m.) PETROGRAD, July 23. Turkish atrocities against the Armenians bailie description. The whole male population of the Bitlis region was massacred. The Turks then collected nine thousand women and children from surrounding villages, herded them in Bitlis, and two days later drove them to the Tigris, shot all of them, and threw their bodies into the river. > The Turks cut the throats of a thousand Armenians on the banks of the Euphrates. Four Turkish battalions in theMusch Valley are now massacring twelve thousand Armenians, but owing to their lack of ammunition they are sure to he exterminated. All the Armenians in tho Diarbekr region have been killed. THE ___POPvTED~PEACE MISSION. ("Time*" _nd "Sydney San" Services.) (Received July 23rd, 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 23. The "Echo de Paris" affirms that one of the most influential of tho Young Turks has gone to Switzerland, in the hope of obtaining an interview with representatives of tho Entente, with a view to securing a separate peaco.