The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-06
POWERS STAND.
Will Not Recede From Position on
Guardship Question.
SULTAN THREATENS HOLY WAR
Hundreds OF Millions of Mos
lens Would Rise.

. dispatch from Constantinople which
says that the embassies have received In
structions from their respective govern
ments that the guardships question must
bc pushed home, and that IL is impossible
for the powers 20 retire from the positions
which they have assumed.
A Berlin dispatch to The Daily News
afiirms that Germany has been much more
active In endeavoring To settle the Ar
inenian difficulty and 10 maintain the
unity OF the powers than Is generally be-
licved. "It was upon Germany's advice"
says the dispatch that the porte opened
negotiations for the submission of the
Zeitoun insurgents, which, however
proved fruitless"
Information comes from Naples that
squadron OF five Italian men-of-war Is
anchored mt Gaeta, aud is under orders TO
be In readiness TO proceed To Turkish
waters.
Mail advices from Jiddah, the seaport
town OF Mecca, dated Nov. 25, say that the
Turkish authorities there have made sew
eral arrests among the chiefs OF the Bed
ouins with view TO force the tribes to
surrender those persons who made an as
sault upon the British consul and vice
consul, the Russian acting consul and the
French consular secretary there on May
30 last. The Bedouins, rs q reprisal. are
trying TO capture several Europeans to
hold ms hostages. 1t lis feared that unless
settlement is arrived at, the caravans,
during the coming pilgrimage season to
Mecca, will he attacked by the Bedouins
and there will be much bloodshed. The
whole country is now unsafe.
The Daily News has a dispatch from
Tn NTH m ha of hat ho
bassies have unofficlally informed the sui
tan that IL the firmans for the extra guard
ships are refused, the Dardanelles will he
forced by the powers. The same CORE
spondent says: The venal press here con-
graduates the sultan upon the success OF
his reforms and of his repressive meas
ures, but IL the massacres diminish IL is
merely because victims are scarce. To-
days news Is that 200 Armenians were
killed in kaisariyeh (Cassarea) A massa-
ere has occurred at Hassan Kahleh, in the
villayetto OF Erzroom, about 20 miles east
Of the city OF ErZroom, where the Arme-
nian monastery was sacked and burned,
and the bishop, the vicar and other inmates
were killed. A feeling Of alarm still pre-
walls.
The Daily Telegraph has a dispatch
from Vienna which says that SO Arme-
mans were butchered at Zileh and 81 at
Hassau Kaleh. with every accompaniment
of ingenious cruelty. This correspondent
sffirms that even in Constantinople the
aspect of affairs is far from reassuring.
The sultsn's Last Card.
The Sultan OF Turkey is tho recognized
head of the Moslem world, except the Per-
sans and the people OF Morocco, who are
dissenters and followers of Ali, the son-in-
law OF Mohammed.
High officials are the authority for the
statement that Sultan Abdul Hamd has
appealed 20 Queen Victoria Emperor
William. the Car of Russia and other
European sovereigns To spare him tho
modification Of having gunboats sent
through the Dardanelles against his pro-
test, and predicting that such an occur
renee would be followed not only by serious
riots in Constantinople, but r. a general
uprising OF Mohammcdaps AL over the
earth. who will revenge the insult to the
head OF their religion by attacking Chris
tians wherever they find them.
There Is wide difference Of opinion as
20 the number Of believers in Mohnmmed.
Estimates vary all the way from la. .0OO.-
OO0 to 400, 100000. There are $4,000, ,0iO In
China who are now In rebellion against
the emperor, and are overrunning the
western provinces. In India there is a
Mohammcdan population exceeding 40,-
oJO,OO0 more than In Turkey, where the
total Is o, 100000. There are 10000, 900 in
the Malay peninsula, $1,000, 900 in Central
Asia, IS000O O1O in northern Africa, IL, CO.,
600 in Central Africa, 100000 In Egypt.
i. 900 in Arabia and 100000 or 4, 0OO.-
OJO In Afghanistnn. In southern Russia.
in the Balkan peninsula and in Bulgaria
the believers in this faith arc very numer.
ous, and there are large colonies in south
eastern Austria. At least NDUOJ,U0J Mo-
hammedans are found in British colonies
alone.
The sultan Is recognized by all these
people rs sacred person, the successor Of
Mohammed, just rs the pope Is recog-
nizcd as the successor of st. Peter They
do not deny Christ, but consider him a
Mohammedan prophet, aud give his pedi-
gree in the Koran. The Moslem will
swear by Christ or by Moham med with
equal readiness, but Mohammed Is last
aud the greater of their prophets and the
founder OF their religion.
In one of the mosques at Constantinople
the green mantle of the prophet Is pre-
served IL that Is taken out and holy
war proclaimed. the whole Islam popula-
ton Of tho entire world, except Persia and
Morocco, would promptly respond, and
the sultan Is the only man who can issue
such proclamation.
Peruvian Congress Opened.
LIMA, Dec. 6.--Thc extra session OF con.