Richmond times-dispatch. [volume], July 18, 1915, Image 48

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Sheik Sinko of the Kurds Who Massacred Christ
ian Men in Urumiah, While Persians
Carried Women and Girls Off
to the Harems.
Bringing Christian Women to the Sultan?an Episode of the Turkish Conquest of Constantinople Pictured
by a German Painter.
The Rev. Mr. Whitehouse, a Missionary in Persia, Describes
How During the Recent Massacres by Fanatical Moslems
the Prettiest Women and Girls Were Saved for the Harems,
At the same time a number of infidel
Persians took advantage of the panic
to seize several hundred more young
women and girls and carry them
off to their harems.
Details of this outrage, which re
sembles those committed by the
hordes under Genghis Kahn and
shows that the lapse of centuries
has wrought no change in the char
acter and customs of these Oriental
peoples, are contained in a letter re
ceived in England from the Rev. Her
bert Whitehouse, an English mission
ary in the ravaged district, who es
caped to Tabriz.
The following excerpts from Mr.
Whitehouse'? letter amply hear out
the latest cabled report, that, follow
ing the Russian occupation of
Urumiah, "00 Persians, being ac
cused of this outrage, confessed and
revealed tiie hiding places of their
harem-enslaved victims.
London, June 22.
ir- |-f HE shocking news of the tor
J ture aud massacre of more
"*? than a thousand Christians
by Kurds in Northwestern Persia
shortly before the occupation of the
'city of Urumiah by a Russian armed
force has just now been supple
mented by a credible eve-witness of
those scenes in a way to add infinite
ly to their horrors.
While Kurds were venting their
fanatic rage against the Christian
men they set aside the prettiest of
the women and young girls and even
girl children <>f seven and eight years
who gaKp ? promise "f future beauty,
tied then? hand and foot and then,
after slaughtering fathers, lovers and
brothers before their eyes, these un
happy girls and children were car
ried away to become inmates of
?berems.
A Typical Secluded Street,
Common to Many Persian
Towns, Showing a Harem Ex
terior, and the Veiled and
Muffled Figures of Harem
Women Who Know No Great
er Liberty, Followed by Their
Armed Guardians.
And Below ?
Russian Cavalrymen Viewing
Bodies of Christians, Victims
of the Massacre by Kurds in
Urumiah Which They Werft
Too Lale to Prevent.
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