ARMENIAN MASSACRES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12010, 12 March 1920, Page 8

ARMENIAN MASSACRES.

United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. Received March 12, noon The Times. Paris, March 7 The Figaro is informed by an Armenian Bishop that there are only SO, 000 survivors of 150,000 Armenian Catholics. There were 140 priests shot and four bishops died of want and exhaustion. The Bishop or Marash disappeared, the Bishop ox Diabekr was buried alive, the Bishop of Malakia was burned at the stake, and the Bishop of Mandin was shot.

Scorchers on motor cycles who wish to exceed the speed limit and provide thrills without being penalised will have tneir opportunity on March 30th. Rangitikei Motor Cycle Club hold their seventh annual meeting on that day, and competitors should note that entries close tomorrow (Saturday). There are eight events and in addition to big prize monies, three valuable challenge cups are to be competed for. A. message received from London in December last stated that a man was sentenced to death at Chester in October for murdering a thirteen year old girl under revolting circumstances while drunk. He appealed to the Criminal Court, which reduced the charge to manslaughter, and sentenced accused to ■ twenty 'years’ penal servitude on the ground of misdirection regarding the effect of drunkenness on his mental condition. The Crown appealed to the House of Lords, The Attorney(ieueral argued for restoring the death sentence. It is believed that such is unprecedented.