Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-22
- ANOTHER MASSACRE.
The Turks Slaughter of Innocents
Continues.

London, Nov. ia dispatch to the
Times from Vienna says that letter
has been receive there from Smyrna,
reporting that Zeki Pasha, Turkish
marshal. with detachment of Nizams
a.pd field battery, massacred two
thousand Armenians at Sassun.
The bodies of the dead were left un-
buried and their presence has caused
an outbreak of cholera. Many Chris
tlans are reported to have fed by
secret paths across the Russian from
tier.
80 far" adds the Times, there has
been no official confirmation of this
News, but if it is true, it is time the
powers share in the responsibility by
their failure to enforce article 61 of the
Berlin treaty, which imposes on them
the duty of seeing that the porte takes
measures to protect Armenians.
THE latter declare that they hope
FOR nothing from Europe, but that they
still have confidence in Great Britain.
Numerous appeals have been made by
the Armenians to the British foreign
office.
The last appeal received says that
the Armenians do not wish to see more
of their territory annexed by Russia,
but if Great Britain is unable to help
them they will be compelled to look
to Russia, under whose yoke they
would be better off than under the
yoke of Turkey"
A dispatch from Constantinople to
the Standard says that in response to
the protest made by Sir Philip Currie.
British ambassador to Turkey, the
porte has unreservedly withdrawn the
charge against Mr.. Hallward, British
consul at Van, of melting the Armen-
ians at Sassan and elsewhere to re-
volt.
The charge grew out of the investi
cation by Mr. Hallwood into the Ar
menian massacres and his report to
the British ambassador. The governor
of Bitlis, who is seriously involved in
the outrage, made the charge, it Is
said, for the purpose of revenge.
The sultan has decided to send a
commission composed of three mem
bers of his military household and one
civilian to Sassun for the purpose of
making an impartial inquiry into the
outrages on Armenians.
The latest news is to the effect that
many of the Armenians who were sup
posed to have been killed fled from the
soldiery and are now returning.
A dispatch to the Daily News from
Constantinople says that the energetic
action of Sir Philip Currie, the British
ambassador to Turkey, has caused
CONSERVATION among the members of
the Turkish government. Everything
has been done to keep secret the facts
of the outrages. Information from var
ious sources tends to prove THAI ne
Sassan affair was most serious.
Armenia is another Poland Russia
one of three owners of each dismem-
bered country, equally autocratic and
intolerant In both is the cruelest of
Polands rulers and the mildest of
Armenias. So much more unfortunate
is Armenia than Poland.
The history of Turkish Armenia Is
one long record of atrocious misgov-
ernment and licensed outrage.
England and other European coun-
tries have interfered in a perfunctory
way time and again, and the sublime
porte, who in this country would be
called sublime liar, has diplomatic
ally conceded promises of reform not
reform, and even promises of restitu-
ton not restitution, the same invaria-
bly, followed by more massacres.
England has, of course, done most of
the interceding and most of the harm.
Russia would put an end to Turkish
oppression, and to the Turk himself,
for that matter, if only for selfish
reasons, We're it not for the dog-in-the-
manger attitude of Britain, which is
called Great-relief for Armenia being
one thing and Russian advance quite
another thing in continental politics,
If not in fact.
Mohammedan persecution is the
Of Tg1Ns low,
The sultan's chief concern, aside from
his harem, is Mohammedan disaffec-
tion-the revolutionary spirit which
has been spreading of late years
through Arabia, Syria and Albania.
The insurrectionary feeling must be
put down summarily or disslpated by
indulgence in some direction not threat
ening to Turkish sovereignty. The
cheapest and safest plan from the sub
lime standpoint is to give it vent at
the expense of the Christians. The
Arnaut robber and the Kurdish brig
and know well enough that they will
be pardoned If they only let Turks and
foreigners alone. When popular feel
ing demands a wholesale sacrifice the
Turkish authorities put down an Ar
menan uprising. That's the techni-
cal name the official euphemism, when
whole village or more is to be ex-
terminated. Governmental connivance
in such cases is carried to the point
that the Cristians who escape by ac-
cident and are subsequently captured
are convicted and executed, or executed
and convicted, as ringleaders of the
revolution.
The last massacre was simply more
violent more extensive and less plau-
sibly licensed than the others of recent
occurrence.
The Armenians are n notably intel
lectual people, great agriculturists in
their own country with bent toward
trade and the arts. The credit of their
merchants is proverbially good.
Armenia is seeking relief, not along
incendiary lines, but through a blood
less and diplomatic revolution-through
the Intervention, that is, of the Chris
tian powers of Europe.
Da Cana still at War.
London, Nov. 2O--A dispatch from
Buenos Ayres says: Admiral da CANA
states that the revolutionary chiefs
have determined not to accent the