Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-11-28

The ATmcuians Surrendered aud We're
unssncrCd.

MnsHncrCu.
LONDON, Nov. ETA meeting OF
the AurIr-A Armenian association was
held here i9dny under the presidency
OF Dir. Frances Seymour Stevenson,
NJ. T., Tor tho Eyu division VI suffolk,
ana chairman Of the Angl1.Agmcuian
association. Anon. tuusu resent
were Professor j. A. Becl, ID. D., ual
many distinguished Engllahmeu who
are In sympathy with the cause Of the
ArmuniAul, besides q. Hng0piun,
Peteiua anu Aganoov, anu other
natives OF Armenia.
Az the opening Of the mreliag today
telegram received ir1m DR.. Can.
tarionIri Russian physician Ut rihis,
was read. lttayg
81 learn that the people Of saisouu
surrendered 10 an overwhelming
Turkish army on condition anu on tho
solemn promise that no harm would be-
done g. them. After laying down
their arms the rurEish troops attacked
and massacred men, women anu
children aud piilhgod and burned
thcit homes. Toe number OF Killed
must exceed 5000"
a letter received from J. /. Iskou.
der, a merchant Of Paris and ptesi.
dent Of the Armenian Society OIL
France, IN which he stated that accord.
Ing 20 bio nuvices mol. less than l. 900
Armuniana were mnHhCfrd.
Speeches were male aud resolutions
passed strongly duuUunCiug the earl OF
Kimberly secretary OF state loF for
oigu HuBlrs, and the Butlah govern.
mcut iJr their apathy in tho matter,
sui iJt acryuuiug tuu Turkish AtfUCl-
Ties by Withholding information frsm
tho pTtbs. 10 was decided 10 commence
au agitation ON behalf Of the Armeu.
laua IN the House uf Commons, aud b
hlld au indignation meeting, the plat
tlIm ~ the movement being u letter
received by the association FROM Canon
MALCOLM AiRcCuiI, VINO was the nfat ~
call attention to the bulgarian Rtroci.
Ties OF 1871, after having seen the pee
Pie imlaied On tie banks OF tue ban.
ubu.
In this letter Canon MacColl says
"Fur almost every massacre lately pee
petrated la Afmenia.thc Porte has been
responsible, Girsetiy or .ad.fcctly.
make this assertion from an intima,o
nOgleigoof the methods of the Turk.
ish administration. The cOmmissiou
which the Porte has ordered to inquire
into the Armenian massacre, like the
commission sent 10 Syria In 1877, isAn
utter farce, the only object being 10
throw dust Ia the eS "a Of Europe. rhe
real criminuis will be- tXon0fsted anu
Innocent parties viii be blamed.
"Eyeui u the Porte anu the sultan
were AinCefC, the commission could not
get the facts, Tor by the sacred law o:
Turkey which IL absolutely uuChangc-
able, Christian evidence 10 never r..
ctiyed against Mussrlms1, ami no
Mussslman viii give evidence against
a MutsBlmau. Tue commission 10 Ob.
vi0uSly a shrswd impOstufc. The Porte
should DO forced 10 iuIhll ils obliga-
uons under the treaty Of Berlin by tue
powers or by England, acting IN con.
cert with Russia. In any case England
should Immediately declare herself re-.
leased from the Anglo.IuTklsh con.
yontion by which sue IL engaged 10 re.
sist Russian aggression In Armenia by
force OF arms.
"PrOiesla are merely waste paper.
The sultan Is forbidden by eaCTud law
10 sanction any reforms Ia favor Of
the ChtistianH except In tue way VI
force.
81 have letters from persons through.
out the country urging that action DO
taken Immediately"
MI. lskonder's letter also states that
the Armenian society OF France Is
la communication with Premier
Depuy aud NJ. HOnontaux, the French
minister Of foreign affairs, with \ visw
" securing some action ON the part Of
thg government u France In the mat.
tor which has greatly affected the ciyi.
lILpd world,