The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-28

London, Nov. pa meeting of the
Anglo-American association was held
here today under the presidency of
4fr. Irancis Seymour Stevenson, M. P,
for the Eye division of Suffolk, and
chairman CT the iAnglo-Amefican assoc
citation. Among those present were
Professor j. A. Besl, ID D., and many
distinguished Englishmen who are in
sympathy with the cause of the Ar
menians, besides C. Hagopian, Peterus
and Aganoov, ard other natives of
Armenia. AT the opening of the meet
ing today, a Telegram received from
DIR. Cantanents, a Russian physician
at Tifi:s, was read. it says:
Bloody Butchery.
q learn that the people of Sassoan
surrendered to an overwhelming Turk
ish army on condition and on the
solemn promise that no harm would
be dore to them. After laying down
their arms, the Turkish troops attacked
and msssacred men, women and child
ren and pillaged and burned their
homes. The number of killed must ex-
coed 300o''
A letter was also received from J. T.
Secunder, a merchant of Paris, and
president Of the Armenian society of
France, in which he stated that accord
ing to his advices not less than Il, 900
ArmenianS Were massacred.
Speeches were made and resolutions
passed strongly denouncing the earl OF
Kimberly, secretary of state for foreign
affairs, and the British government for
their apathy in the matter and for
screening the Turkish atrocities by
Withholding information from the press
II was decided to commence an agita-
tion on behalf of the Armenians in the
house of commons and to hold an in
oignation meeting, the platform of the
movement being a letter received by the
association from Canon Malcolm Mac
Coll, who was the first to call atten-
ton tc the Bulgarian atrocities of 1877
after having seen the people impaled
on the banks of the Danube
The Porte Responsible.
In this letter Canon MacColl says:
For almost every. massacre lately
perpetrated in Armenia the porte has
been responsible, directly or indirectly.
] make this assertion from an intimate
knowledge of the methods of the Turk
fsh administration The commission
which the porte has ordered. to- inquire
into the Armenian massacre, like the
commission sent 10 Syria in 1850 and
like the one sent TO Bulgaria in 1877, is
an utter farce, the only object being
10 throw dust in the eyes of Europe.
The real criminals viii be eXonerated
and innocent parties will be blamed.
Even il the porte and the sultan
were sincere, the commission could not
get the facts, for by the sacred law of
Turkey, which is absolutely unchange-
able, Christian evidence is never re-
ceiVed against a Musselman and no
Musselmen will give evidence against
a Musseman. The commission is OBJ
viously = shrewd imposture The porte
should be forced to fulfill its ooliga-
tions under the treaty of Berlin by the
powers or by England, acting in con-
cert with Russia. In any case, Eng
land should Immediately declare her
self released from the Anglo-Turkish
convention by which she is engaged to
resist Russian aggression in Armenia
by forco-Of arms.
Protests Arc Useless.
Protests are merely waste paper.
The sultan is forbidden by sacred law
to sanction any reforms in favor of the
Christians, except in the way of force.
u have letters from persons through
out the country urging that action be
taken Immediately"
NJ. SsudeT's letter also states that the
Armenian society of France is in COM
I1nunication With the premier Dupy and
N. HOnontauX, the French minister of
foreign affairs, with a view of securing
some action on the part Of the govern
Thent Of France in the matter which has
so greatly affected the civilized world.