TURKS IN PERSIA.
CHRISTIANS MASSACRED.
TERRIBLE ATROCITIES.
London, May 10.
An American missionary, writing from tho town of Urumiah, in Persia, close to the Turkish border, under date April 8, says that all tho Christian villages had been plundered and burnt, by the Turks and Khurds. A thousand had been massacred and 2000 had died from disease. Two hundred Turks were carrying on tho massacres.
The Russian Vice-Consul at Salmas had reported continual murders, outrages, and abductions at Salmas and Gulpashan. On the Turkish Consul's orders 25 of the prominent citizens of Gulpashan were conveyed to a graveyard and butchered like animals in the presence of their relatives. One minister was crucified and burnt alive. A bishop was hanged. Refugees in the Catholic Mission were taken before the Turkish Consul and 64 were beheaded.
Several parties of Christians at Salmas were massacred. Their arms were tied together. In other instances the victims were tied to ladders with their heads sticking through the rungs, and they were then beheaded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15915, 12 May 1915, Page 8
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