The New York Times

TURKISH WOMEN REVOLT

Throw stones in Anti-War Riots--20,000 Cristians in Peril

December 14, 1914

Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

PETROGAD, Dec.13, (Dispatches to The London Times.) --Refugees arriving

at
Tiflis report an extraordinary anty-war demonstration by Turkish women
in Konak
and Erzerum. Women threw stones and rioted for several hours, and when
threatened by guards rent their garments and paraded the streets almost
in the
state of nudity, thus compelling the guards to retire in obedience to
the
Islamic law. They forced the vali to dispatch the telegram to
Constantinople
protesting against the war.

Armenian refugees from Erzerum describe the terrible position of 20,000

Christians whom the Turks threaten with massacre for their Russian
sympathy. The
prisons are full of Armenians and Greeks suspected of espionage. They
are hanged
in the streets and squares without trial and the corpses are suspended
for weeks
from the streets lamps. In passing Turks spit on the bodies and compel
Christians to do the same.

There are now 200,000 Turkish soldiers and 1,500 officers in Erzerum,
where a
large quantity of provender and military supplies is stored. German
officers
control everything in the town and fortress.