MESOPOTAMIA.
ARMENIAN REFUGEES. SUCCOURED BY BRITISH. LONDON, June 21. f Mr. Chandler, writing from Bagdad, says the British Government is caring for the Armenian survivors of the massacres. The women describe 1 the horrors as endless. The martyrs of the desert thought they were going to a specially prepared colony. The Turks daily separated hundreds of men and took them a short distance away, and either shot or cut them down with the sword, they often being killed by sticks, stones, daggers or knives. Many of the women were pushed into the rivers or thrust over precipices. Out of 1200 from two villages 400 women and girls survived The Turks did not spare males -oyer nine years,
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145862, 22 June 1917, Page 3
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117MESOPOTAMIA. Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145862, 22 June 1917, Page 3
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