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46 PERSECUTIONS OF THE GREEKS The sight that presented itself before my eyes was horrible. Everything had been destroyed, both in the Monastery and in the villages, except that the Turks did not set fire to the place. Five decomposed bodies of Greeks were lying unburied in the court-yard of the Monastery, one of them being that of the priest Constantine of the village of Thersa. Five other corpses were found in the interior of the Monastery. In one of the rooms there was lying the body of the twenty-yearold girl Kyriaki from the village of Thersa, naked and beheaded, with a wound on the chest, there being every indication that rape was committed upon her. According to the admission of two Christians that have escaped, the unfortunate girl had been seized in the forest along with others by nine Turks and had been carried into the Monastery. After she had been outraged she had been killed by them."
CHAPTER III KERASOUNDA A REPORT of the Greek Legation at Constantinople dated February 7, 1917, No. 119 (Ministerial Archives, No. 4901), concerning the district of Kerasounda, where the Greek element surpassed the other nationalities, both in commerce and wealth, states as follows: " According to reliable information received from Kerasounda the condition of the Greeks of that district is very lamentable. After the occupation of Trebizond by the Russians, tens of thousands of Turkish immigrants swept down into the district of Kerasounda, where they plundered the Greek villages and departed, leaving behind them cholera and typhus fever. By order of the Governor of Trebizond, a new persecution of the Greeks began, the wealthiest of them being arrested and expelled." "When the deportation of the Greeks from the littoral of the Black Sea was decided upon by the Turkish General Staff, it was carried out by the Governor of Trebizond and his agents in the most cruel manner. In spite of the assurances given by the Commander of the Third Military Corps, the evacuation of the villages was completed within twenty-four hours, and the deported Greeks, accompanied by a strong escort of gendarmes, were not permitted to take with them either food, clothes or baggage, and spent the night in the open air under a pelting rain." " The deported peoples of the sea villages were not allowed to communicate with their Bishop. After their departure the Turkish officials and private individuals pillaged their properties. The evacuated villages numbered thirty-eight and the population was 23,000." 47
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CONTENTS V. Cydonia (Aivali) VI. Co
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