THE ARMENIAN HORRORS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3995, 30 July 1915, Page 5

THE ARMENIAN HORRORS.

CONFIRMATION IN HORSE OF LORDS. RRITAIX I’ROMISi'S Pl'NlSHmfnt. (United Pres? Association —Corsricb*-! (Received .lulv 29, 10.20 p.m.) LONDON. July 29.

]n jlie Houm' of Lords L-ord Brvce asked for confirmation of his information as to the extensive massacring of Christians in Armenia and wholesale deportations into the Central Asia-Minor desert and parts oi Mesopotamia. lie saui 'the lurks m omdistrict shot all the men and took all the women and children, iiine thousand being drowned in the iigii.-. the Turks were apparently aiming at exterminating the Christian population. Lord Cromer said this was attiibiuahle to the recent Oerman inihie-r.ee. The Archbishop of Canterbury had received appalling accounts of massacres on the Turco-Persian frontiers. Tlie Russians occupation was happily bettering tilings. Lord Crewe' said the Foreign Uthee in .May was informed that the Ottoman government agrees that those actually implicated shall be held personally responsihe for the crime, hut they had since .increased both in numnei and atrocity and there were wholesale massacres ami other outrages and deportations tinder the guise oi enforced evacuation of villages. In some cases the‘Gorman officials coiinteiiam'od and encouraged the crimes. _ Hie pieseiieo of Germans with the lurks hail been an unmitigated to both. Christians and Moslems. There was no immediate remedy and the Government could only emphatically promise punishment.