GHASTLY STORIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2530, 3 August 1915, Page 6

GHASTLY STORIES

OF ARMENIAN MASSACRES TURKISH FIENDS AT WORK By- Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. August 2, 7.30 p.m.) Athens, August 1. Ghastly details arc to hand of tile Armenian massacres. Six hundred Armenians at Nnrsovan wero accused of concealing arms. They wore marched outside the town. They offered to give , up their arms, which they had retained iu self-defence, and while a small party was .allowed to return to show their captors where the arms were concealed the-rest wero massacred. Several Greeks at Marsovan wero compelled to dig a trench as their gravo before tlioy were shot. Greek women were given tile alternatives of embracing Islam, or death. Tlie'y refused to change their religion. Their lives wero sparod, but they were left to the luerey of the soldiers, and compelled to accompany tho troops on a long march. Some of them, exhausted, were abandoned, and their habies were sent to a Gorman orphanage, which sent an ambulance to rescue tho survivors, who were lying along the roadsides. Owing to the discovery of bombs at Marsoyan thousands of innocents were tortured throughout Armenia. With a view to making them give up explosives twenty men were beaten to death at Bardesagh, while nameless torturings took place at Baghtchedjik.