TURKISH GHOULS IN ARMENIA.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2875, 13 September 1916, Page 5

TURKISH GHOULS IN ARMENIA.

A DREADFUL PICTURE OF ' MISERY Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. . New Yorki September 11. A Presbyterian missionary in Northern Arabia, in a dispatch describes tho awful sufferings of Armenians at Moskene. He saw womon and children throw themselves into trenches and beg tho grave-diggers to bury them. The Armenians here have no bread or tents. At Hama he saw 7000 deportees, of whom 3000 were naked, living on loousts and dogs. Men dig their graves while awaiting death. He often saw \whole rows of ghastly forms rise out of graves and beg for bread and water. The number starving at Hama, Roklca, and Mcskene exceeds 30,000. Cases aro reported of men fighting over tho bodies of the dying in order to obtain fresh food. A DARKER CHAPTER BEGUN. Copenhagen, September 11. • It is announced that tlie Armenian population bas been removed to other parts of the Turkish Empire owing to tho spread of the revolutionary movomenfc. It is. feared that this movement points to fresh cruelties.