THE ADANA MASSAORE,

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12750, 22 April 1909, Page 5

THE ADANA MASSAORE,

Over 5000 Butchered.

CONStA^TINOPLE, April^l. Consular telegrams that there were 2000 deaths 'at Adana, and 3000 elsewhere in the vilayet, which is in a state of anarchy.

The position of Marash is still precarious, owing to the renewed attacks on the Armenians.

Advices from Laranaca state that the massacre at Adana began in the markets on Wednesday. A Moslem mob, impelled by fanaticism and a desire to loot, killed five Armenians, the remainder of whom withdrew to their own quarters and resisted the mobs for 48 hours. Hordes of Moslem villagers arrived, and were supplied with arms by the authorities, who affected to regard them as a military reserve. Women and children were horribly mutilated. The town resembles a shambles.