Turks Lose Heavily

Constantinople, June 23.- A dlspatch from Beyrout, Syria, says that durlng the recent fighting between the Turks and the insurgent Druses in the Hauran districts the former lost 500 men killed. New York, June 23.- Information received in this city direct from the scène of the Cretan revolution against Turkey by Solón Vlasto, editor of the Greek newspaper Atlantis, shows that the Turkish troops are resorting to at.rocities which equal in point of ferocity their terrible barbarities in the Armenian war. The last massacre occurred on May 22, in Canea, the principal city of Crete. In this fanatical crusade against Christianity an attaché of the Russian consulate and another of the Greek consulate wero murdered by the Turks, although they were in no way connected with the war. The massacre began about noon, when a false rumor was spread by the Turks that a Turkish family had been murdered by the Cretans. The rumor caused a panic, and in fear the Christians closed their shops and ran homo for safety. The firing could be heard outside of the town. The gates of the town were closed to prevent the escape of the inhabitants, and a military patrol was at once established by the Turks, and in the massacre that followed it is estlmated that 1,000 persons feil. All the bodies were mutilated, and in many instances the eyes of the victims had been gouged out. Such a reign of terror existed that 500 womon and children ran to the churches to escape the infuriated troops. Their food supply had been shut off, and had not the English and French warshlps come to their aid and furnlshed thero with the necessities of life, they would have perished from hunger and thirst.