. Christian herald and signs of our times. Kharbau, Aliiau, Terlisan,Atis, Pais, Alis. Total, 17. Villages between Serai, on the Persian border,and the city of Van : Serai, kessan, Haza-ra, Shamshaden. Daghvaran, Mandan. kharkoonis,Gaitaian, Haspitan, Keril, kcruawg, Kardg, Zeuis,Peet Khirkanis. Doodanis. Merabaii. Norkeb, Hav-shesourk, Seavan,Armanis, Zaranis, Lccu, Youske-bag, Varook. Total, 25. With the possible exception of someof the villages in the Albakh district thereis no reason to doubt that these villageswere destroyed by the Hamidieh have testimony tending to show
. Christian herald and signs of our times. Kharbau, Aliiau, Terlisan,Atis, Pais, Alis. Total, 17. Villages between Serai, on the Persian border,and the city of Van : Serai, kessan, Haza-ra, Shamshaden. Daghvaran, Mandan. kharkoonis,Gaitaian, Haspitan, Keril, kcruawg, Kardg, Zeuis,Peet Khirkanis. Doodanis. Merabaii. Norkeb, Hav-shesourk, Seavan,Armanis, Zaranis, Lccu, Youske-bag, Varook. Total, 25. With the possible exception of someof the villages in the Albakh district thereis no reason to doubt that these villageswere destroyed by the Hamidieh have testimony tending to show thatsome of the Albakh vil-lages were destroyed byKurds not en-rolled as Ham-idieh cavalry-men, but forthe rest the tes-t i m 0 n y isunan imousthat the workof destructionw a s done bythe Hamidieh,who were as-sisted by Turk-ish regulartroops disguis-ed as Kurds. Itis perhaps de-sirable to ex- Appropriationsfrom Fund. an, $10,500 rzeroum,irzinjian, larpoot, ,000 1,000 lardin, emarek, Vintab,pivas, Vratkir, Rev. Dr. 500 500 500. fearful Har-poot massa-cre. At Mar-ash, the de-struction ofmissionbuildings hasbeen tothe !e dis-patches, theCentral Tur-key GirlsCollege andthe Theolog-ical Semina-ry are bothwrecked. There were »-£!X5*3BBin the formerinstit u t i o n (which was •organized in 18S4), about thirty-five students Bothbuildings were located a little distanceoutside of Marash. No estimate of lossessustained at the latter place has yet beenreceived. Mr. Howard, THE CHRISTIAN HERALDcorrespondent, in a letter written fromUrumia, Persia, Dec. 8, gives a most re-alistic picture of the devastation of theArmenian villages in the province of Vanand along the border. He writes : It is no surprise to me thatthe villagesof the province of Van have been destroy-ed. I felt certain that it was coming, andI made haste in my journey, hoping toget to Van before the destruction of thevillages began. As rapidly as I travelled,however, the Kurds were ah
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