The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-19
Report of 1000 More Chris.
tians Cruelty Slain by the Venge-
full Turkish CutthrOats.
ENGLAND is APPEALED TO
GREAT DAMAGE THE RESULT OF
EARTHQUAKES IN ITALY.
Minister Of Railways in Russia Loses
His Portfolio for Bad Handling of
Cars Funeral Train.

LONDON, Nov ia dispatch to the
Times from Vienna says that a letter has
been received there from Smyrna, report
ing that Zeki Pasha. Turkish marshal
with detachment of Nizams and a field
battery. massacred 1000 Armenians at Sas-
sun. The bodies of the dead were left un-
buried and their presence has caused an
outbreak of cholera. Many Christians are
reported to have fled by secret paths across
the Russian frontier So far there mas
been no official confirmation of this news,
but IL 1t be true. ii is time the powers share
in the responsibility by their failure to
force Article 81 of the Berlin treaty, which
imposes on them the duty of seeing that
the Porte takes measures to protect Ar
menians. The latter declares 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 Ar
menians 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 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 various
sources tends to prove that the Sassun
affairs was most serious.
A dispatch from Constantinople to the
Standard says that in response to the pro-
test made by Sir Philip Currie, British en-
bassador to Turkey, the Porte has unre-
servediy withdrawn the charge against Mr..
Hallward, the British consul at Van, of
melting the Armenans at Sassun and else
where TO revolt. The charge grew out of
the investigation made by Mr.. Hallward
into the Armenian massacre and his report
to the British ambassador. The Governor
of Bitlis, who is seriously involved in the
outrage, made the charge, 1t is said. for
the purpose of revenge. The Sultan has de-
three members of his military household
and one civilian to Sassun for the pur-
pose of making an impartial inquiry into
the outrages on Armenians, The latest
news is to the effect that many of the Ar
meHsans who were supposed to have been
killed fled from the soldiery and are now
The Bulgarian atrocities referred to in
the cable dispatches concerning the fright
1ul massacre Oh AfmenlanS shocked the
whole of Europe in 1876 and was followed
by the Russo-Turkish war. The powers
were trying TO settle the difficulties between
the Sultan of Turkey and his rebelious sub
jects in Herzegovina and elsewhere. The
three imperial Chancellors, Bismarck
Gortschakof and Andrassy, representing
Germany, Russia and Austria, had held an
informal conference In Berlin. and had in
vited the English, French and Italian en-
bassadors TO meet them MAY Is, 1850
But in the language of chronicler Lorned
while the three Chancellors were forging
their diplomatic thunderbolt, a catastrophe
of such terrible nature had occurred in
the interior of Turkey that all the talk Of
armistice and mixed commissions had be-
come stale and Improbable. The Berlin
memorandum was not even presented to the
Porte, for rumor, though carefully sup
pressed by Turkish officials, was beginning
to leak out that there had been an insur-
a0d 0f the tha tha na
had been committed by the Turkish irreg-
ular troops In its suppression" From 1900
one hundred villages destroyed. according
to the Constantinople correspondent of a
London newspaper
If the letter sent to England be au-
thentic this American atrocity bids fair to
equal those in Bulgaria. Bitls, the place
from which comes the letter laid before
tan 120 miles southeast of Erzeroum, the
principle city Of Armenia. Two rather
vague reports of the massacre to which the
letter of Bitlis doubtless refers, have come
by cable within the last few days. One
announced that three thousand Armenians
had been slain by their hereditary enemies,
the Kurds; the other that six thousand had
been outrageously treated and then put
to death by Bashi-Bazouks, the irregular
The Armenian Christian has been for
centuries the object on which the ''un-
speakable infider' has vented his wrath
now quiet and peaceable but are harried
to death on the slightest pretext by their
Musselman rulers. The belief of the ma
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the branches of the Eastern Catholic faita
They are. on account of this hated by the
s and fher nfs5 rights hase
England have been called on many times
to protect the Protestant missionaries
vents and the whole people in the name of
humanity against Turkish cruelty.
Chicago Armeninns Protest.
CHICAGO Nov. 1s.-Men cried like chill
dren at the meeting of Armenfans at Bey-
er's Hall, Milwaukee and Chicago avenues.
tonight when the story of atrocities of the
Turks were retold The listeners burst into
sobs and buried their faces in their hands.
Some were there who may have lost isis
ters. brothers and parents in the recent
slaughter of Christian Armenians by the
Kurds Pitiful appeals. were sent up for
the Christian people of the world to take
cognizance of the dreadful persecution of
the Armenians. Other speakers spoke OF
taking up arms and dying in the cause OF
liberty and vengeance.
The meeting was called for the purpose
of taking action in regard to the reported
slaughter, and TO discuss ways and means
by which the sentiment of the civilized
world can be aroused 10 prevent repeti-
ton OF such an outrage. Several hundred
Armenians were present. Mr.. De Rerian
acted as presiding officer. HampartZomm
d. Carabedian. a finely educated Armenian
who is studying in Chicago. spoke words
of encouragement to his sorrowing country
men, and other prominent Armenians de-
nounced the Turkish atrocities and bade
their hearers take heart and hope for q
brighter future The meeting closed with
the passage of resolutions thanking the
press for the interest taken In the cause OF
Armenia and others appealing to the pu.pii
and all good men and women to lift up thei,
voices In protest against further persecution
of Christian people