The massacres of several thousand Armenians was reported in a cablegram received today by Professor der Hagopian vice president of the Armenian national delegation to the peace conference who is in Washington on a special mission. The message was from Patriarch Zahven at Constantinople and said in part:
“Cilicia covered with blood. Several thousand Armenians massacred. The existence of all our compatriots in those regions in danger in consequence of the recrudescence of Turkish attacks. Several Armenian localities evacuated or besieged.”