ARMENIAN HORRORS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 4, 6 January 1916, Page 7

ARMENIAN HORRORS

TERRIBLE STORIES TOLD

THE GERMAN LEADERSHIP.

(TIMES AXD SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.)

LONDON. 4th January

The Cairo, correspondent of The Times states that an American woman, who was engaged on relief work, describes further Armenian atrocities She says that five thousand started from Aleppo, including refined University women and ablebodied men', and were wilfully drowned whilst fording a. stream. Others were strapped, beaten, and starved, and only 213 arrived at Khnrput. Girls at Marash suffered worse than death. The German orphanage at Ma-rash contained a thousand girls, and the headmistress was ordered to hand them, over to the Turks, but she refused. The German Consul telegraphed : " You are hiding the girls: give tEem up." She obeyed, with the result that the girls wefe delivered to the Turks and suffered horribly. The father of the headmistress went to Constantinople with the view of protesting to the Ambassador, but was refused- an • interview The staff said': "Mind your own business." An American woman obtained permission to feed other, girl refugees. The gendarmes suddenly began striking her, owing to the approach of .German officers, who rode her down and badly bruised her. They then turned *to the gendarmes, and said, " Whip this crowd." A neutral resident in Constantinople protested that the refugees were being tortured by being refused water, and asked permission to send food to where there were four hundred dying daily. The answer he got was : " Nonsense ; what do you think we are sending them out for?"