THE ARMENIAN HORRORS.
A HIDEOUS TALE. MASSACRE OS WITNESSES. [Special to Press Association.] CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 26. A Kurdish chief named Ohefken terrorised Armenians in Geserea, His followers devastated villages, outraged women and demolished a convent in Nichan. LONDON, Feb; 26. A correspondent of the Daily Telegraph confirms in every detail the accounts previously published of the Armenian horrors. He says that Turkish soldiers worked day and night in order to remove the traces of the massacres before the arrival of the Commission. Hundreds of mutilated bodies were thrown into a pit and lighted petroleum was poured on them, but as this course did not prove successful in wiping out traces of the outrage, limbs were afterwards taken out and burned piecemeal. Some three hundred and sixty witnesses who would probably have given evidence before the Commission, relying on the promise of srfefcy made by the Turkish commander, were murdered ia cold blood. The correspondent describes the whole affair as one long and hideous tale of devilish atrocities on men and women.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10593, 28 February 1895, Page 5
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171THE ARMENIAN HORRORS. Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10593, 28 February 1895, Page 5
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