UNSPEAKABLE TURK

Northern Advocate, 5 February 1926, Page 5

UNSPEAKABLE TURK

• INCREDIBLE CRUELTIES i EVIDENCE OF SUFFERERS. REVOLTING STORIES. (Received 10.32 a.m.) LONDON, February 4. Atrocities incredible irt any part of tho globe in the twentieth century are described by Mr. Do nohoe, continuing his narrative, entitled “The Unspeakable Turk Again,” in the- “Daily Chronicle.” WOMEN DISHONOURED. Tshi Issaq, aged 20, married, .said: “I was seized at Baijo with the rest of tho villagers. The Turks took my sister, myself and other women into the house of the head man of the village. There three soldiers seized me and tore off my clothes. Despite my resistance, each soldier assaulted me. My sister was similarly treated in the same room. On the second day’s march, tho Turks killed twenty old men and women because they were no longer able to walk. On the third day, soldiers seized four women, who resisted violently. Thereupon the soldiers tore 1 off their clothes and did revolting things. When one of the women cried: ‘O, God, have pity on me!’; the Turks jeered. Three were beaten until they died. The fourth was cut down unconscious andyfreated shamefully. She became insane.” Ishi gave tho names of the women. “CHRISTIAN DOG” KILLED. Michael Pole, a peasant lad, said: ■ “I was deported with the rest of the village. My mother, unable to walk, fell. A soldier called her a “Christian dog,” and struck her with his rifle butt. He then picked up a big stone and struck her twice. When he was satisfied she was dead he spat on her body. I fell on my mother’s corpse, and soldiers prodded me with bayonets. —Reuter.