A FEARFUL NARRATIVE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1200, 1 March 1895, Page 15

A FEARFUL NARRATIVE.

London, February 26. A special coi'respondent of the Daily Telegraph confirms in every detail the accounts previously published of the Armenian horrors. He says the Turkish soldiers worked day and night in-order to remove the traces of the massacre before the arrival of the Commission. Hundreds of mutilated bodies were thrown into a pit, and lighted petroleum poured on them, but as this course did not prove successful in wiping out the traces of the outrage, the limbs' were afterwards taken out and buried piecemeal. Some 360 witnesses who would probably have given evidence before the Commission, and who relied on the promise of safety made by the Turkish commander, were murdered in cold blood. The correspondent describes the whole affair as one long and hideous tale of devilish atrocities on men and women.

An officer in the Swiss Army named Hebler has invented a new bullet, the effects of which at long range are said to be even more deadly than those of the shots fired from the Lebel or Manser rifles. The new projectile is shaped something after the fashion of a goose quill, and with a small charge of powder of slightly over two and a half grammes it will travel about 1400 yards, and penetrate a block of wood to the extent of 9ft. At longer range the penetrating power is still enormous, and at a distance of 6000 yards the ball has still sufficient force left to enter a block of wood. It only takes nine seconds to cover the 6000 yards. Sara Bernhardt has a strong fancy for engaging in, a, bull fight.