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The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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Report from London Morning Chronicle details Turkish atrocities against Greeks: in Kydania, 1000 children hanged and shot for sport then butchered; 1200 Mount Athos monastery superintendents in Thessaly and Macedonia seized and executed without cause.
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THE GREEKS.
The cruelties of the Turks towards the Greeks who happen to be in their power, of which we receive details from time to time on good authority, are so dreadful, that notwithstanding our previous knowledge of these barbarians, almost stagger belief. On getting possession of Kydania, they disposed of 1000 children, (too young for their brutal purposes) by tying them two by two, and hanging them up on trees, when they amused themselves by shooting at them. They afterwards cut them to pieces, in the manner in which butchers cut up their meat. The Monasteries of Mount Athos derive their subsistence from the estates they possess in Thessaly, Macedonia, &c. which are superintended by people belonging to the order. All these superintendents, to the number of 1200, were suddenly seized and hung, without their having given the least offence, and before the Convents had risen, which they were forced to do for their own safety.
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Greece
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1000 children killed in kydania; 1200 superintendents hanged
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Turks committed cruelties against Greeks in their power, including in Kydania where they tied and hanged 1000 young children two by two on trees, shot at them for amusement, then cut them to pieces; additionally, 1200 superintendents of Mount Athos monasteries' estates in Thessaly, Macedonia, etc., were seized and hanged without offense, forcing convents to rise for safety.