River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-11-22
STANDS AoHAsT.
Europe IL Indignant Over the Blood.
Curdling Reports from Armenia.

Europe IL Indignant Over the Blood.
Curdling Reports from Armenia.
LONDON, Nov. 19.-The chairman of
the Armenian Patriotic association. G.
Hagopian, has sent the following let
ter received from an Armenian, whose
name is not given because it would
ieopardize his life. to the earl of Kim
berly. the secretary of state for for
eign affairs. The letter is dated Dc
tober 9. 1t says:
The so-called rebellion Of the Armenians in
1898 was got-up affair. for the repression OF
which the chief magnate got a decoration.
THIS year the kurds carried OF Armenian oxen
and the Armenians appeal for their restora-
tion s refused. A fight ensued. Two hurds
were killed and three were wounded.
The Kurds immediately carried their dead
before the governor. declaring the Armenian
soldiers had oyerrun the land, killing and plum
dering the Kurds. This furnished a pretext
for massing the troops FROM TAR and near. The
troops were commanded b pasha and a mar
shall and were hurried to tie district. The
pasha is said to have hung from his breast.
after reading ii to his soldiers. an order from
Constantinope to cut the Armenians up root
and branch and adjuring them TO dc 50 If they
loved their king and government.
Nearly all these things were related here
and there by soldiers who too; part in the hor-
rfble carnage. Some of then weeping claim
the Kurds did more. and declare they only
obeyed the orders OF others 1t is said that
100 fell to each OF them TO dispose of. No COM
passion was shown to age or sex even by the
regular soldiery not even when the victims
fell suppliant at their feet
six TO ten thousand persons met such fate
as even the darkest ages Of darkest Africa
hardly witness, for there women and tender
babes might at least nave had chance OF a
pf slavery VVh he nnf nd In
nocence were but mochery before the cruel
lust that ended its debauch by stabbing women
TO death with the bayonet while tender babes
were impaled with the same weapon on their
dead mothers breasts or perhaps seized by
the hair to have their heads Topped on with
the sword"
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Nov. 19.-The fol-
lowing official account of the Armen-
ian troubles was issued Friday:
Some Armenian brigands. provided with
arms of foreign origin. joined an insurgent
Kurd tribe for the purpose of committing ex-
cesses. They burned and devastated several
Mussulman villages. AS instance OF
the ferocity of the Armenians it is
reported that they burned alive a mus
sulman nobleman. Regular troops were sent
to the scene &c protect peaceable inhabi
tants against these depredations- The Otto
man troops not only protected and respected
the submissive portion Of the population and
tie women and children but they reestablished
order and tranquility Respecting the vii
lages alleged to have been destroyed, it was
the Armenians who carried of all their be-
longings before becoming brigands-"
LONDON, Nov. 2O.-Europe is shocked
and indignant over the blood-curdling
reports from Armenia. The situation
is taking on the aspect of thai which
followed the exposure of the Bull
garian outrages. The incidents run
almost on parallel lines. Pretended in
surreetion has been used as a cloak
for wholesale massacre. In the dis
trict near Philippopolis, in 1876, $4,000
people were butchered. This year, in
the district of Bitlis. 10000 Christians
have met similar fate.
The diplomats see trouble ahead for
Turkey il prompt redress is not made
for the Armenian atrocities. 1t is sug-
gested that the parties to the Berlin
treaty take the matter in hand and
discipline Turkey at once by taking
control of the province out of the hands
of theporte. This would be bold
step, but it is one which seems justi-
fed by the circumstances.
As in 1876, the porte is belittling the
cruelty of its emissaries The sultan
is evidently alarmed by the cry of
horror which has gone up in Europe,
and is anxious to cover up the mis-
deeds of his provincial agents. He is
afraid that history may repeat itself
that Armenia may prove another
Bulgaria and lead to a war which will
permanently dismantle his empire.