New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-28
the terms OF decree issued some months ago. anu
exports OF hogs are not very large.
MORE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES.
CHRISTIANS SAID TO HAVE BEEN KILLED AND
"a CHrRCH LOOTED IN ANTIOCH.

CHRISTIANS SAID TO HAVE BEEN KILLED NM
"a CHURCH LOOTED IN ANTIOCH.
London. Sept. ga dispatch from the Bulgarian
town OF Varna. the Black Sea, to THE 81.
James's Gazette" says letters have been received
there from Antioch. Syria. saying that mob com
posed OF members OF the Moslem ,populaee raired
an Armenian church and destroyed the altar Iefl
Armenians were killed wounded while resisting
the attack
Thanks 10 such dispatches. Unfortunately pup
lishea in the English press. the Armenian question
has been discussed with all the serious consid-
Grafton IL merited. People hardly understand why
important news like that OF the alleged massacre
at Antioch should be learned through the round
about way OF Varna. instead CO being teegraphed
directly from Syria, or conveyed by letters from
the Syrian Christians to their friends at Con-
stantinople. Moreover, any information coming
from Bulgarian source relative to Turkish atroci-
ties Is suspected OF partially and exaggeration. as
has been the case In regard to the latest alleged
revolutionary movement, in Macedonia Of which
nobody spoke fortnight after the Bulgarian dis
patches patches had represented 1t as tremendously
1t is to be hoped that similar Indifference or
by the evident exaggeraon or inccrrectness OF too
numerous sensational dispatches. European d.
turkish turkish diplomacy has handled with evident
ally pased upon temporization and inertia as
listing between the three Powers which proclaim
SO loudly that they want nothing else but the
The question has not progressed ota. despite
an me negotiations, memoranda, appointments Of
commissions. and even the (awfulD rumor, one
month ago, OF the assembling of the British feet
n Beska Bay at the entrance OF the Dardanelles.
England: France and Russia however. had the way
clear before them II they had been really In accord
and seriously willing to accomplish the humanta-
rian mission they pretended TO assume. Article 81
OF the berlin Treaty gave the Powers the right to
see that the same rights granted TO Bulgaria
should be granted also to Armenia This article
mas remained dead letter in regard to the latter
country since 1878. Wher the Sassoon atrocities
were recently committed the Powers merely sent to
the Porte a memorandum requesting IL 10 cease It's
persecution OF Armenians. During two or three
months the European Ministers at Pera awaited
the decision OF the Sultan. Whenever they sent
their dragomans TO the Foreign Minister Said Pacha
caused his secretary to answer in the Spanish
ner 'hasta "a manana" Tomorrow a reply will be
givenl. Finally. the three Powers thought OF using
the rights conferred upon them by Article g. and
required Abdel Hamid TO consent that a European
Commission Of Control should be Armenia.
IN order to see that reforms be practically applied
there. The Sultan will fight stubbornly before ac-
cepting them. which would amount TO the abandon
ment OF portion OF his sovereignty. and II remains
10 be seen how much the Powers. jealous OF their
respective influence at the Porte are in earnest and
how anxious they are promptly to enforce the ac-
ceptation OF their Control Commission.