TERROR REIGNS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19505, 5 February 1926, Page 7

TERROR REIGNS

THE ATROCIOUS TURK FURTHER REVELATIONS SOME GHASTLY SCENES DEPORTEE’ HARROWING EXPERIENCES By Telcfrraph—Per Prose Assn.-- Copyright. Received Feb. 4, 11.5 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 4. Atrocities incredible in any part of the globe in the twentieth century are described by Mr M. H. Donohoe, continuing his narrative in the “Daily Chronicle. ’ ’ Tshi Issaq, aged 90, married, said she was seized at Baijo with the rest of Ihc villagers. The Turks took her, her sister, and other women into the house of the head man of the village. “There three soldiers seized me, tore off my clothes, and despite my resisting, each one assaulted me. My sister was similarly treated in the "same room. On the second day’s march, the Turks killed twenty old men and women because they were no longer able to walk. “On the third day soldiers seized four women, who resisted violently. Thereupon the soldiers tore off their clothes and did revolting things. When the women cried, ‘Oh God, have pity on me,’ the Turks jeered. Three of the women were beaten until they died, and the fourth was cut down unconscious, treated shamefully, and she became insane.’* Ishi gave their names. Mikhail Poles, a peasant lad, said: “I was deported with the rest of the village. My mother, unable to work, fell. A soldier called her ‘Christian dog’ and struck her with a rifle butt. Then he picked up a big stone and struck her twice. When he was satisfied she was dead he spat on the body. I fell on my mother’s corpse, and the soldiers prodded me with bayonets.”