The morning call., 1894-11-27
FEARS A REVOLT.
Bars Put Up by the
Porte
AGAINST AMERICAN PAPERS.
Their UtteranCes Regarded as
InCendiary.
DANGEROUS TO TURKEYS PEACE
AS Being Calculated to Stir Up the
Armenians to an Armed
Rebellion.
DANGEROUS TO TURKEYS PEACE

CONsTANTINOPLE, Nov. 26.-The recent
edict calling for the seizure at the from
tier OF foreign newspapers containing
accounts of the Armenian massacres
prohibits the entry of every American
newspaper into Turkey. This attitude on
the part of the Turkish Government is
supposed to be due to the action assumed
by the American press on the Armenian
question.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 26.-The edict per-
manently excluding all American news
papers from Turkey, as announced by the
Associated Press cable from Constanti-
nOple, has not yet been officially CON-
municated to the Turkish legation here.
Secretary \ origbian Effendi is in charge
of The legation during the absence Of
MIR. Mavroyenni Boy. Mr.. NorigAian ex-
pressed surprise that the edict should
have such scope as to be permanent ex-
clusion to the American press, and he
thinks the report may prove overdrawn in
this resIecI. There is press censorship
in Turkey, he said, similar TO that con-
Quoted in most European countries. A
press bureau is maintained by the Govern
ment for the purpose of reading all papers
and seeing that the press laws are OBJ
served. There are daily papers In Con-
stantinople and elsewhere throughout
Turkey conducted in accordance with the
press laws, which are designed to give the
Government proper protection against in
teTnal assaults. Mr.. NoTighaD says such
laws are common throughout Europe and
are in marked contrast with the lack of
supervision and censorship in the United
States.
Superintendent Brooks of the foreign
mail service says that it is an agreement
by all nations in the universal Postal
Union that any nation can exclude snv
mail which the Government deems detrI-
mental 10 its interests.
At the State Department no question is
raised as to tile authority OF the Turkish
Government 10 taxing the zion indicated
Nearly every European power has asserted
and exercised this authority in the past.
France has freely availed herself of it, and
1t is a well-known fact that the Russian
Government exercises a most rigid censor
ship over the admission into Russia not
only of foreign newspapers but of maga-
zines and books.
In the case of Turkey the reason for the
order of exclusion is doubtless to be found
in the fact that the American papers at
present abound with long articles descrip-
tive of the outrages alleged to have been
perpetrated on the Armeniaus and reports
of mass-meetings held by the active Ar
menian agents in the United States 10
protest against these atrocities. The
Turkish Government is spprehensiVe that
the free CIRCULATION of such literature in
the dsaffected provinces may stir UP an
open rebellion. the outcome Of which in
the present temper of Europe 1t would be
difficult TO forecast.
So far a the Armenians themselves are
concerned the American Government can
do nothing for them, no matter how much
disposed it may be to alleviate the fortunes
of these native Christians. The great
European powers are bound by treaty 10
protect them and they will unluestionably
strongly resent any interference by the
United States in the line of suggestion as
TO their duty in the matter. So the resolu-
tions which are being directed to The Presi-
dent by sympathetic mass-meetings held
IN various cities are likely to be of no avail,
save, perh ps to direct the atten fqn of
the civilized world TO the miserable state
of the Armenians, though il is just posi-
bic that Congress, as it did in the case of
the Russian Jews, may pass a resolution
requesting the President to appeal to the
treaty powers to Interfere i'll Armenia.