ARMENIAN ATROCITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11512, 7 October 1915, Page 6

ARMENIAN ATROCITIES.

! ARE GERMAN CONSULS | RESPONSIBLE ? ! QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. I _ 1 Bj 'i'cifgmph—Press A§f.«jir.tion.—Copyright ' (Received October 7, 2 p.m.) | LONDOX, October ti. i Lord Cronier, speaking in the House j of Lords-, asked ivhether the Governi had official information that Go | man consular officials were privy to ' the ma»sacro of Armenians. Be add«v.i i that one of the objects of the war was j that Armaria should no Jong«r cotistiI tutc » Turkish shamblo*. Turkey made govern men t by massacre part o£ her 1 poliiic.i! system. ! .Karl Crowe, in reply, said that the j Ouron uncut had received intomifl-tioJi i that the population of orio district had J sitsohii-oiy exterminated. lie had no official confirmation that German ! ronsnls had encouraged tho horrors, hut ho was hound to stoic that, knowing; what had happened elsewhere, it could not 1)0 said that it would be improbable thw.t such was the easo. Lord Bryce said that from figures he liati received it was quite possible that 800,000 lives .had been destroyed since May. Tho only ehanee to save tho renmans was by neutrals exerting, their influence on Germany.