FURTHER MASSACRES AT ADANA.
THE DEATH ROLL IN ASIA MINOR. THIRTY THOUSAND PERSONS • SLAUGHTERED. ' LONDON, May 5. Further massacres are reported from Adana. Four thousand soldiers, are looting, shooting and burning. Instead of pouring' water oh the fires, .they saturate and feed them with kerosene. Both French schools and the Josephine Convent have been destroyed. There are fears regarding the American missions at Nadjin and Tarsus. It is estimated that 6500 have! been^ killed at Adana. Thirty - thousand have been killed in the entire provinces, and 35,000 are homeless and penniless. '.-. j ' ■ ' V ■ ■ mm mm m, M
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9535, 6 May 1909, Page 1
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