The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-08
The president AROUSED
Will Send an American Delegate with
the Armenian Commission.
COULD NOT STAND COMMENT
Mr.. Cleveland at Last Realizes That the
Atrocities of Armenia Demand the At.
tention of the Civilized World-Tho
Gar Shows Ills Displeasurc.
BY the United Press.

Dy llS Olllltu IGSS.
Constantinople, Dec. 7.-President
Cleveland has sent cable message
here saying that he has reconsidered
his decision not to send an American
delegate with the Turkish commission
appointed to inquire into the Armenian
outrages. The president says that he
will allow the American legation here
to nominate q delegate to accompany
the commission. The Turkish govern
ment is now manifesting great desire
to satisfy the powers that the United
States government was the first asked
to send a delegate with the commission,
but declined. The Earl of Kimberley,
the British secretary of state for for
eign affairs, was also requested to
nominate delegate, and he immediate
ly assented
Nobody here seems to Know why
President Cleveland at first declined to
send delegate with the commission,
and it is understood that the United
states government and the government
of Great Britain are still in communica-
tion upon the subject. The final ar
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1t is now officially explained here that
the origin of the difficulty in Armenia
was a sort of msurrection of the Arme-
mans in the Sassun district against the
Turkish authorities. Bands Of Ar
menians, it is claimed, excited the coun-
try to the rebellion, with the result
that the Turkish troops were repulsed
with a loss OF a number of killed. More
over, it is further explained some of
the conflicts which have occurred were
between Armenians and Kurds. The
country is reported to be in a state of
great disorder, and the Turkish troops
sent to repress the trouble are accused
of having committed eXcesses.
Lay 1t TO the Bandits.
The Turkish authorities, however
say that they strongly believe that no
such murders and excesses as those de-
scribed BY the Armenians were COM
mitted by the regular Turkish soldiery
although they say it is possible that in
their operations against the rebellious
villages a great number of people may
have been killed. The murder of de-
fenceless inhabitants is deemed wholly
improbable, as the troops would only
fight against armed rebels. The Porte
continues to claim that this trouble
was seized upon by the Armenians in
order to get up a political agisation.
Two transports with Turkish troops
on board left here last Sunday for the
Black Sea
Varnu, Dec. 7.-4Aftera 1ong delay the
czar has sent a cold and formal ac-
acknowledgement of the sultan's effusive
message promising to send a special
mission to congratulate the emperor on
his marriage. The character of the re-
ply is supposed to be intended as a
mark of the czar's displeasure on ac-
count of the Sassun outrages.
London, Dec. IA dispatch to the
Daily News from Constantlnople says
that the reports of the Armenian out
RACES are confirmed from various
sources. A Lazzarlst priest from Van
says in an interview that he has not
been able to discover the cause of the
massacres at Sassun. He believed that
the victims numbered 1000, and the
regular troops were the actual murder
ers and violators. The dispatch says
that since the sultan invited President
Cleveland to send a delegate with the
Armenian commission he has requested
General Blunt Pasha to go to Bitlis or
similar errand. General Blunt's
health, however, prevents him from ac.
cepting the invitation.