THE EXTIRPATION OF A RACE
ANOTHER REPORT ON ARMENIAN ATROCITIES. By Tclcgraph-Prcss Association-Copyriehl Paris, February 16. "Le Journal" publishes the American Committee's, report on tho Armenian atrocities, which states that 60,000 victims of exhaustion and ill-treatment were buried at Meske'ne, where deportees from Syria and Mesopotamia were encamped. Three hundred bodies of. women, old men, and childreu were thrown into one grave. Five thousand Armenians encamped on the banks of the Euphrates were mere skeletons. Six hundred orphans wero crowded into one great shed, dying of/ hunger. The people at other camps fought for food in the waste heaps- . Zeki Bey, the representative of Turkey, instituted terrible tortures. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . _.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3007, 19 February 1917, Page 4
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