The treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: Documents presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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The treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: Documents presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon
Armenian question; Armenians; World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities; World War, 1914-1918 -- Refugees
The Bakou Refugee Committee has just forwarded several further
consignments of 10,000 quilts, 12,000 mattresses and sacks, 12,000
pillow cases, 600 jackets, 3,000 shirts, 3,000 pairs of drawers; and
the Tiflis Committee, 400 quilts, 4,000 mattresses, 4,000 pillow
cases, 200 jackets, 1,000 shirts and 1,000 pairs of drawers, to the
Governors of Elizavetpol and Erivan, to be served out to the
refugees. The latter Committee has also sent several bales of
clothing to Persia and to Turkish Asia Minor for the refugees, but
according to the newspapers a large proportion of the fugitives are
still in utmost poverty—destitute, to a very great extent, of the
absolute necessities of existence.
Seventy-six railway truck loads of flour, of which 53 were for the
needs of the Armenian Refugees in the Government of Erivan and 23
for the use of those in the Government of Elizavetpol, left Gulevich
in the Northern Caucasus a few days ago. These trucks, under
ordinary conditions, should already have reached their respective
destinations.
Owing to anticipated heavy snow drifts at the Akhta Pass
(Kars-Karakeliss direction), the Zemstvo Union gave orders a few
days ago that all its refugee victualling and provisioning stations
should be moved to Igdir.
According to information obtained by Mr. Sarebey, the Dragoman of
the Vice-Consulate at Van, from the Armenian Bishop of Erivan and
from various other data he has been able to procure on the spot, the
number of Armenian refugees in the Caucasus is 173,038, of whom
105,000 are from the Province of Van; 48,000 from the districts of
Alashkerd, Bayazid and Passin; and 20,038 from Moush, Boulanik, &c.,
&c.
They are housed as follows:—
Government of Erivan:—
Town of Erivan 18,820
Villages in the neighbourhood of Erivan 14,680
Market town of Vaharshapat 5,360
Villages of the district of same name 22,730
Town of Nahichevan 271
District of Nahichevan 468
Igdir 1,028
Surmalin 7,342
Town of Alexandropol 8,450
Villages in the neighbourhood of Alexandropol 14,121
Sharori 268
Town of Novo-Bayazid 1,164
Villages of Novo-Bayazid district 10,336
——— 105,038
Government of Elizavetpol:—
Town of Elizavetpol 12,000
Villages, district of Elizavetpol 5,000
District of Karabagh 1,000
——— 18,000
Province of Kars:—
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