The record-union., 1895-12-05
The Powers Present an Ultimatum to the
Ottoman Empire.
WILL FORCE A PASSAGE OF THE
DARDANELLES.
The Sublime Porte Sends Another Re-
port to the Legation a5 Washing
ton, in Which He Throws the
Blame of Late Disorders at the
Door of the Armenians.

graph has a late dispatch from Vienna
which states that the Powers have pre-
sented an ultimatum to the Porte
| threatening to force the passage of the
| Dardanelies unless firmans are granted
within forty-eight hours permitting
the passage OF second guardianships.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-The Turk
ish Legation has received from the Sub
lime Porte a report of the Armenian
troubles at Trebizond signed by the
civil and military officials, the Ulemas
and notables of the Tilayet, Mussul-
man, Greek Orthodox and Catholic. In
part it is as follows:
'On October I'd, while party con-
sisting of General Bahri Pasha, eXvYali
/ of Van; Ahmed Hamdi, Commander of
the Redids at Trebizond; Razi Hani,
Persian Consul at Trebizond; Hadji
Omer Effendi, Director of the Posts and
! Telegraphs, and Suleiman Bey, Com
mander of the Mounted Police, were
passing along a street in TrebiZond they
were fired upon several times by a SER
want of an Armenian Bishop and an
other Armenian. Bahri Pasha was shot
in the leg and Hamid Pasha in the foot.
/ The assailants were instantly arrested.
This incident, the first outbreak in
Trebizond by the rebellious Armenians,
caused some excitement, but was not
followed by immediate disorder.
Two days later, however, an Armen-
! ian, one Hatchik, While resisting ar
rest for completely in the shooting, shot
and killed Rahmi Effendi, in the Al
Vasil quarter, and made his escape.
| The. murder created intense excitement,
and the streets were soon filled with a
] .sSe1 a
rumor was circulated that the Armen-
/ ians had assassinated the Vail at the
Government house, and a rush was
made for the place. The streets were
! blocked by the excited people but after
/ q time the authorities succeeded in dis
persing the crowd, but public feeling
remained very strong.
In view of the critical situation
arising from the shooting, Father Mes
rob, acting representative of the Ar
menian Bishop, and the most promi-
nent citizens of the city was sum-
moned to the Government house 10 at
! tend a meeting to consider the best
means of preventing further disorders.
/ Only Father Mesrob and one merchant
responded. They were implored to ex-
/ ert ell their influence to prevent a repe-
titiOn of the recent scenes and TO name
the hiding place of the murderer, the
arrest of whom would aid in restoring
tranquility. The merchant, however,
declared that he would not interfere in
the matter, and Father Mesrob said he
did not know the accused, and more
over. it appeared from reports that the
! two Pashas were wounded by soldier,
and that Rahmi Effendi was killed by
a Mussulman.
THE conference having proved un-
successful and the shooting being fol-
/ lowed by news of the riots in Con-
Stantinople, public excitement became
/ greater than ever. The Armenians
/ kept their stores closed, and walked
around armed to the teeth. Affairs be-
! gan to reach snch q dangerous stage,
and as the Armenians from the neigh
boring villages began to swarm into
! the city, the Governor General, to pre-
vent possible bloody riots, on the morn
/ ing of October Sth assembled in the
market square q large number of prom
inent citizens-Mussulma and Chris
! tians-and eXhorted them to quell the
excitement of the populace. Even as
! he spoke shots were heard in every di-
rection in Sharko square. Owing to
/ the resulting confusion, it was impos-
sible to determine en- which side the
! brawl began. 1t seemed, however, as
/ though the more the troops or officials
i endeaVOred to suppress the riot, the
greater became the audacity of the Ar
menians From their shops and baZars,
/ from the upper windows of their dwell
] ings from anywhere and everywhere
they fired at random on soldiers, police
and citizens alike.
THE Vail hastened to the scene, but
was powerless to stop the shooting.
! and several shots were even fired at
/ the Governor At the sight of two
! Mussulmans dead, and two or three
! Musselmans ana one soldier wounded,
/ the excitement of the Mussulmans and
/ Greeks reached its climax, and it was
/ late in the afternoon when order was
restored. Then the Armenians were
! Ideprived of their arms and held under
guard. Those individuals and families
deprived of their means of support were
cared for in some Mussulmans houses
land at the Catholicicos. Later the Of
/ tenders were tried by court martial.
During the disorders the foreign con-
/ sulates. schools and other religious
establishments and residences of for
/ eigners were guarded by regular
! troops
sWhen the troubles We're completely
/ suppressed an inquest was held to dis
( cover the authors of the riots. 1t was
/ found that on the morning of the out
i break several conspiratorS were eX-
pected from Constantinople, and the
unusual assembling of Armenians near
| the wharf attracted many other per-
sons to the spot Among the letters re-
ceived in the mail was one for a certain
Chvarieh of Erzindjan, giving details
of the troubles in Constantinople and
! announcing the death of his brother.
/ The effect of this news was to cause
Chvarieh to begin firing wildly on all
sides at passers-by. Immediately after
ward four or five shots were fired from
scme stores and these were succeeded
,1ss1
ans. Then followed the general riots.
The fact that the first shots were fired
| by visiting Armenians from neighbor-
ing villages; that simultaneously with
the firing and commencement of the
riots the Armenian shops and bazars
were closed, and that officials who eX-
| horted the ArmenianS to submission
were greeted with shots, proves con-
/ clusively TO the authorities that the
rioters had decided to cause great
1 slaughter throughout the country 1t
is worthy of remark that Chvarieh and
ether rioters profited by the amnesty
accorded by the Sultan
BERLIN, Dec. 1.-THE Cologne Ga
zette, as the result of inquiries in Off
cial circles. reaffirms that Cabinets and
/ diplomats alike are unanimous in in
sisting on the admission of additional
4 guardships into the Bosphorus. 1t
adds that nothing is known of the ru-
mored British ultimatum
CoNSTANTINOPLE. Dec. "A dis
! patch from Zeitoun from a Turkish
/ source says that delegates sent to treat
with the Armenians in regard to sur
render were not received by the insur-
gent leaders. II is stated that the lat
ter released 400 captured troops, with
the exception of nine. who. it is al
legged, were murdered. A bloody and