BESTIALITY AND BAYONETS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3263, 5 February 1926, Page 7

BESTIALITY AND BAYONETS

MORE EXAMPLES OF TURKISH BARBARITY What Can Happen in Twentieth Century Bo\ SEES MOTHER BEATEN TO DEATH (By Electric Cable—Copyright i [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received, Thursday, 7.43 p.m.) LONDON, February 4. Atrocities Incredible in any part of the globe in this twentieth century were described by Mr. Martin Donolioe, in continuing Ills narrative in the “Daily Chronicle,” Of Turkish outrages against the Christians. Ishl Issaq, aged 20, a married woman, said she was seized at Baijo with the rest of the villagers. The Turks took her sister, herself and other women into the house of the head man of the village. “There, uiree soldiers seized mo, tore off my clothes and each assaulted me. My sister was similarly treated in the same room. On the second day's march, the Turks killed twenty old men and women, because they were no longer able to walk. On the third day .the soldiers seized four women, who resisted violently.” Ishi said thereupon the soldiers tore dff their clothes and did revolting things. When the women cried: “Oh God, ’have pity on mo!” the,Turks jeered. Three were beate n until they died. The fourth was cut down unconscious and treated so shamefully that she became insane. Ishi gave their names. Mikhail Poles, a peasant lad, said: “I was deported with the lest of my village. My mother was unable to walk and fell. A soldier called her a Christian dog, struck her with his rifle butt, then picked up a big stone and struck her twice. When he was satisfied she was dead, he spat on the body. As I fell on my mother's corpse the soldiers prodded me with their bayonets.”