WORSE THAN DEATH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19445, 3 November 1925, Page 8

WORSE THAN DEATH

PLIGHT OF CHRISTIANS IN MOSUL LONDON, NOV. 1. The “Timos’ ” Mosul correspondent, describing the plight of between 2000 and 3000 Christians who, escaped from the Turkish deportations along the Brussels line, are now refuging in Bersinc and Zatho, says: The majority arc food less, and many have only one garment for protection from tho weather, which is wet and very cold. The Iraq Government is doing its best to feed them, aided by the Royal Air Force and other Mosul units, who are sending money and clothing, but unless substantial European help is forthcoming Ihc refugees must gradually die off. At present they are living in rude temporary booths and army tents. They utterly lack professions of any sort and have no bedding. The Christians were eating acorns when I saw them, and many wore ill. They related terrible stories of the Turks’ atrocious callousness and barbarous cruelly. Ohl n.i'ii, women and toddling bal»<s were killed, because they did not march fast enough. Most of the deportees arc reported to be dis tributed among Kurdish chiefs, whe gave receipts for them, and many died of starvation.