9 OCTOBER 1915, Page 2

In the Rouse of Lords on Wednesday Lord Cromer opened

a short debate on the Armenian massacres. It had been reported that the victims numbered eight hundred thoasand. That, as well as the statement that some of the German Consular authorities had organized and encouraged the massacres, seemed incredible. Yet we knew what the Germane had done in Belgium and France. At any rate, the Germans did not stop the campaign of lust and murder, though they could bare stopped it, for their domination at Constantinople is at present unquestioned. The world ought to be made to understand that one of the things for which we are fighting is to prevent Armenia from "being constituted a sort of Turkish shambles."