The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-11
TURKISH C;aFFIOIAL VERSION.
Agita,or5 All TO Blame, OF Course
The KurSi,s Pure Angels.


The Rurti's Pure Angels.
WASHINGTON. Dec. IL, 1S94-The Tur-
ltfsh Legation has received the following
Communication
THE Armenian agitators that made
their appearance in the steep mountains
of Talouri, situated between Sasscon, in
the southeast of Morish Wilayet of
Bftiis) and the District of Call, of the
Mutessarifat of Guendj, combined their
forces together at the instigation of
certain Hampartzeun, who, under the
assumed name of Morish, was already
giving trouble in those regions. This
Hampartzeun, born in Hadjin (Vilayet
of Adana), after having for eight years
studied medicine in the Civil Medical
School of Constantinople and -partici-
pated in the disorders of Coum-Capon,
fed to Athens and thence to Genoa He
afterwards went disguised, and again,
under an assumed name by way of
Alexandretta. from DiarbuHir to the
neighborhood of Bitlis, and he began
then and there his seditions agitation,
together with five other individuals.
Hampartzoun was giving positive as
surances to credulous people that he was
a foreign agent, backed by all the Euro
pean powers, in his plans to upset the
Turkish authorities He succeeded thus
in gaining to his criminal e9ds tne Ar
menians of the Villages Of Sner, Sinai,
Gulli-Cuzat Ahi, Hecenk, Sinank, Che
kind, Fifard, Moussone, Etek, Akdjes-
ser, as well as those of the small bor-
ough of Palouri comprising four dls-
's MUssELMANs KILLED.
New, these insurgents, under the
command of Hampartzoun, abandoning,
fox ri
respective villages, and after having
placed in inaccessible spots their wives,
children and belongings, and secured also
the cooperation of other armed insur.
gents that came from the Valley OF
1doTish and from the Cazas of Call and
Selvan, assembled together, numbering
douk-Dagh. Five or six hundred of them
decided to fall upon Morish- They began
by attacking the tribe of Delikau on the
Mount Courlink, in the south of Morish,
killed a few of them and robbed them
of their belongings. All Musselmen that
fell in their hands were insulted in their
religion and murdered in a most hor-
rible fashion. The regular Hoops of the
neighborhood of Morish were also at
tackled by these insurgents, who, how
ever, did not dare to attack Morish it
self, owing to the strong military forces
of the town. These rebels, together with
those assembled at Endouk-Dagh, or
ganized then separate bands which as
sailed ferociously the tribes close att
hand, committing horrible crimes and
depredations They burned alive the
nephew of Eumer Agha and assaulted
and murdered Musselmen women of three
or four houses of the Village of Guln-
Guzat. They also terrified many Mussel-
men, forcing them to kiss the cross,
putting their eyes out, cutting their
ears and submitting them to the most
OTHER ATROCITIES.
t"The same rebels, at the beginning of
August last, attacked the tribes of Fav-
mar, of Bekiran and of Badikan, COM
nitting crimes similar to the above.
The insurgents of the Villages of En-
Hghunuk and of Yermouch. situated in
the canton of Djenan, attacked in their
turn the Kurds living there, as also the
Villages of KAISER and of Tohatchat.
Toward the end of August last the
Armenians were attacking the Kurds in
three or four villages, including Gulli-
Guzat.
in relation to the agitators of Tai
ouri, numbering more than 3,009 after
having brought CONSERVATION and death
among Musselmen and Christians alike,
they refused to surrender, and continued
their criminal proceedings. Regular
troops were sent to the spot to put down
their rebellion.
1.-THE chief Hampartzoun fed to a high
mountain with eleven of his associates in
crime He was captured alive, not how
ever without his killing two soldiers
and wounding six. By the end of August
last all insurgents bands were dis
ssWomen, children and invalids were
treated with consideration, and accord
ing to the dictates of Islamism and hu-
manity. The insurgents who fell were
those who refused to surrender and pre-
ferred to fight the lawful authorities of
their country. The insurgents who were
captured will be punished according to
the laws