Many Thousand Armenians Massacred by Turks

“Fifteen Thousand Dead in One Place– Men, Women, Children Sent in Caravans to Desert, Where They Perish

Others are Butchered by Bands of Kurds”

London, Sept. 25.-3:30 a. m.- “The Turks are gradually but effectively exterminating the Armenians,” asserts the Dedeaghatch correspondent of the Times, “The modus operandi is to send from each Armenian village day by day as many persons as a train can carry. When they arrive at Konish or some adjacent station they are turned out and escorted over the Vaurus Mountains.

“Once on the other side, they are supplied with enough food for a few days and told to continue their journey to the neighborhood of Mcaul, as there they will be perfectly safe. In point of fact the region is nothing but a desert, and before many hours marauding bands of Kurds and Bedouins rob and pillage these helpless men, women and children so that those who are not actually slain die of hunger and thirst.

“The consequence is that many distracted mothers throw their children into the Euphrates rather than see them suffer. Some even sell them for what they will bring before starting on their journey.

“A widely known American missionary who arrived at Constantinople the first week in September, declared he saw as many as 15,000 Armenians killed around one station. American missionaries scattered about the Asia Minor and places in the Armenian lists gradually are leaving upon the advice of their ambassador. The attacks upon the Armenians are said to be excused upon the ground that they assisted the Russians in the occupation of the town of Van.

“The Chronicle prints what it declares to be accounts by eye-witnesses of Armenian massacres, asserting that besides many thousands killed, a half-million have been deported, while thousands of others have been imprisoned. The charge is made that after the men are massacred the women and children are sent into slavery to be converted to Islamism.

At Sari Kichila, a caravan is reported to have been compelled to proceed, leaving the children behind