Serve Notice on Turkey Stop Armenian Massacre

-A joint official statement by Great Britain, France and Russia issued tonight says:

“For the past month Kurds and the Turkish population of Armenia have been angaged in massacring Armenians, with the connivance and help of the Ottoman authorities. Such massacres took place about the middle of April at Erzerum. [unintelligible]

“The inhabitants of about a hundred villages near Van were all assassinated. In the town itself the Armenian quarter is bedeged by Kurds. At the same time the Ottoman government at Constantinople is raging against the inoffensive Armenian population.

“In the face of these fresh crimes committed by Turkey the allies [unintelligible].