Ask Wilson to Stop Armenian Massacres

Resolutions of Laymen’s Missionary Movement Request President to Act–Rev. Ernest Partridge of Sivas, Turkey, Tells Delegate 800,000 Persons have been Killed and that Whole Race will be Wiped Out.

By A. P. Night Wire

Chicago, Oct. 14– Resolutions calling on the government of the United States to use its influence in stopping atrocities against Armenians in Turkey were adopted today by delegates attending the meeting marking the opening of the Laymen’s Missionary Movements campaign for increased interest in missionary affairs. The convention committee of the movement was instructed to frame such an appeal, which will be send to President Wilson.

Rev. Ernest C. Partridge, who just returned from Sivas, Turkey, declared tonight that more than 800,000 Armenians had been massacred by Turks.

“At the present rate,” Rev. Partridge said, “it would not be very long before the entire race would be wiped out.”

Refugees Reach Russia

London, Oct. 14–Patrick W. J. Stevens, the British Consul at Batum Russian Transcaucasia reports the arrival at Urumiah Persia, and in the Caucasus of a large number of Armenian refugees from Asia Minor. They are in a pitiable condition, Mr. Stevens reports. They declared that Turkish troops have completely ravaged Sassun, thirty-five miles north-west of Bitlis, which was the scene of a massacre of Armenians by Kurds in 1894, killing a majority of the inhabitants and the defenders of the town. Only a handful of the people were able to escape to the mountains, where the refugees say they are doomed to perish.

The bishop of Bagra, writing from Echmiadzin, the seat of the patriarch of Armenia and the monastery of which is the chief sanctuary of the Armenians, the Consul says, reports that a large number of refugees have arrived there and at other points in the government of Erivant. They come chiefly from the Melazghert and Ardesh districts and Van. In all, 160000 refugees have passed through Igdir and Echmiadzin.

The pitiable condition of these people, Mr. Stevens adds, is undescribably. The daily mortality among them is about 100, due chiefly to dysentery and typhus Medical detachments from Russia are attending them but unless immediate relief comes, half the refugees will die.