RUSSIANS SLAUGHTER TURKISH THIRD ARMY

Give No Quarter to Men Held Responsible for the Massacre of Armenians

MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1916
LONDON, March 6.--The Russian soldiers at Bitlis, according to a Petrograd dispatch to
the Morning Post, took a terrible revenge on the Turkish troops for the cruelty which the
Turks were alleged to have practiced to ward the Armenians in that district. The
correspondent says:
"Terrible slaughter followed the capture of the Turkish positions at Bitlis. The Russian
troops had witnessed at Van, Mush, and many other places, an appalling sight, the
massacre: namely, by Turkish fanatics of tens of thousands of Armenian Christian men,
women, and children. It was unlikely after such deeds that any quarter should be given.
This colossal killing completed the destruction of the Turkish third army.