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"SHOT LIKE RABBITS."

' ' HAMIDIEH A CEMETERY. IN ANTIOCH HARDLY ONE ESCAPED. (BY TELEGUAPH—riIESS ASSOCIATION—COPiniOHT.) London, June 14. The British Consul'in Asia Minor, who is travelling among the scenes of the recent massacres, states that two thousand agricultural labourers iwero shot like rabbits around tho'village of Hamidieh, and their bodies .iro still unburiod. . ■ Other villages suffered in a similar way. In Antioch scarcely a man escaped. CARTLOADS OF CORPSES FOR THE RIVER. Estimates of the number massacred in Asia Minor vary from 20,000 to 30,000. According to reports received in America, "tho disturbed district extends around the Gulf of Alexandretta, from Latakia to Mersina, and 50 or 100 miles inland. Tho outbreak of fanaticism showed a striking coincidence with the reactionary movement in Constantinople, instigated by the Sultan, and it subsided gradually as the triumph of the Young Turks at the capital became known. Apart from this, there is no direct connection established between the two movements. The conflict at Adana was started by the shooting by v on Armenian of three Turks, one of whom died; The Armenian was on the following evening beaten to death by a Mohammedan, mob. The shops of both parties were closed, and the Armenians appealed to tho Governor for fotection. This was promised, whereupon the Turkish and Armenian leaders went through the streets urging,tho reopening of the shops. Rioting, however, soon began again, and continued for three days. Tho Armenian quarter was looted and burned, in spite of a stout defence.. The two Americans, Rev. T).-M. Rogers and Rev. Henry Maurer, a Mennonite missionary, were killed while trying ■to save tho house of an aged Turkish woman."/ A later accounj; of scenes'after tho massacres says: "The bodies of the murdered Armenians are being gathered up in carts and dumped in the river. Rev. Mr. Gibbons, of Hartford, Conn., reports counting a dozen oartloadi being carried to the river within half nil hour on one morning. Lntukia is filled with refugees from tho adjacent villages, which have been destroved by tho Mohammedans. Tho number is estimated at 5000, and the supply of food and medicine is altogether inadequate. The Government at Constantinople is doing what it can to check the disorders in Asia Minor."

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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 535, 16 June 1909, Page 7

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"SHOT LIKE RABBITS." Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 535, 16 June 1909, Page 7

"SHOT LIKE RABBITS." Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 535, 16 June 1909, Page 7

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