The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-16
MET DEATH LIKE A MARTYR
4 PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN WAS
 MURDERED BY THE EURDS.


 He Urged Upon All Ills People to Die Like Chrlstians--Protostant Church Has Been Converted Into a Stable-Many People Win Die from Exposure.
 London, Dec. 15,--The reporter in Con stantinople of the United Press tele- graphing under yesterdays date says that advlces from the interior show that forced conversions from Christianity to Mohammedanism are occurring every where. Women and children have, rather than to lead life of vagabond- age, accepted Islamism, whereupon they have been housed and fed by Turks, In Kaisarea many women, whose protectors had fallen in the mas sacres, were offered their choice be- tween embracing the tenets of the Ko- ran or being either hacked to pieces or kidnapped. Ostensibly the women ac- cepted Islamism and thus rendered their lives and perhaps their honor se- cure.
 It is now known that perhaps 1000 persons were killed in the massacres in kaisarea.
 The mutilation of the corpses by the Kurds was frightful.
 In Harpoot during the massacres there sixty Christians fled to a church for shelter. They were permitted for time to believe themselves secure, but suddenly the church was surrounded by great number of Kurds The doors were then blown in and the Kurds took the Christians, one at a time, outside and there needless of the cries for mer cy from the women and children, killed them either by shooting or stabbing them. The first victim was the Protes- tant pastor of the church, who bade the others to die as Christians. He met death like a. martyr. Some of the ref ugees in the agony of terror offered to accept Islamism, but their enemies af- ter accepting dragged the converts out and killed them. The Armenian church has been turned into a mosque and the Protestant church into a stable.
 In Kaisarea the soldiers joined in the looting that accompanied the massa- cres Van and Trebizonde are rapidly filling with refugees from the pillaged villages adjacent to those cities. Hun dreds of women, almost completely eX- hausted from fear and lack of food, have reached Van and Trebizonde. Their condition is most deplorable' They have been robbed of about every thing they possessed. Large numbers of them were barefooted and the only covering they had for their bodies were thin chemises, which furnished no pro- lection against the indictment weather. There is no doubt that many who es- capped death at the hands of the kurds will die from the effects of the exposure they have undergone, while many oth- CTS will fall victims of starvation. The promptest aid that can reach the suf- ferers from foreign countries will not avail to prevent an enormous death list from these cause, but unless aid is promptly furnished from some quarter the deaths from famine will reach an appalling number.
 London, Dec. 16.-The Daily News publishes dispatch from Constanti- nople confirming the statement of the representative of the United Press in that city regarding the number of Christians killed in the massacre on No vember 30 at Kaiserea. The dispatch says that the gendarmes joined the nlarauders in outragng women and girls. There is no doubt that the pillag- ing was done under direct orders from the government. All details of the mas sacre, giving the names of the victims, etc, are in the hands of the represen- tatives of the powers who find it useless to remonetrate with the porte. The sul- tan is of the opinion that the European concert is a mere feint.
 The dispatch adds that the tragedy at Zitouan is rapidly approaching it's final state. The statement that the Arme- nians at Zitouan attacked the moslems and burned their villages is an abso- lute lie, invented by the Arab Izzet to alienate European sympathy. The lie means that the doom of the Armenians in Zitouan is sealed. The sultan will or der them to be exterminated without de- lay.
 The softas intended to make demon- startion against the palace on Thurs day last, but the police prevented it by arresting many of the intending parti- cpants.
 IL is reported that there has been a further massacre at Kai,serea, but no further confirmation can be had and no details are given.
 The Standard has a dispatch from Constantinop1e which declares that the continuance of the massacres proves that the sultan while promising the powers that effect reforms is acting with his pen hand for the extermination of the Armenians. People in Constanti- nople cannot understand how the united powers hesitate to end this state of things. which is due to the perversity and wickedness of a small clique when instant Intervention would be welcomed by the whole Turkish nation.
 Was Terrible Battle.