THE ADANA ATROCITIES.
A FRESH OUTBREAK.
By Telegraph.— Association Copyright
(Received April 29, 1 a.m.) London, April 28. There was a fresh outbreak of looting and incendiarism at Adana, in Asia Minor, on Monday night. The situation is stated to be critical.
Between 10,000 and 15,000 Armenians were massacred in the Adana vilayet lastweek. The. reactionaries in the districts devastated spared neither women nor children, the massacres e\erywhere being conducted with the greatest violence. In carrying out their work of decimation the Moslem mobs shouted, " Not a twig of the accursed race (the Christians) shall be suffered to live."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14047, 29 April 1909, Page 5
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THE ADANA ATROCITIES.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14047, 29 April 1909, Page 5
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