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ARMENIANS ATTACK 2 TURKISH DIVISIONS
Serious Uprising Follows Massacre of 2,000 by Kurds or Turks
MAY 17, 1915
LONDON, Monday, May 17.-- A dispatch to THE TIMES from Cairo says it is reported that the Armenians in Zeitun and Cicilia (within Asiatic Turkey) have risen, and that the energies of two Turkish reserve divisions are required to meet the situation.
Armenian newspapers, the corespondent adds, give harrowing details of a massacre of 2,000 Armenians by Kurds of Turks in Transcausia.
A hard copy of this article or hundreds of others from the time of the Armenian Genocide can be found in The Armenian Genocide: News Accounts From The American Press: 1915-1922