The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-14

High Time For Active Operation
against the Turks.
THE SLAUGHTER AT ERzROom
AS Described by a European
Witness.

LONDON, Nov. 1A.-A dispatch to The
STANDARD from Co%nstantinople says that
every day brings news Of fresh massacres.
IL is quito clear, IL the powers waste the
additional time in negotiations, the need
for the negotiations will be passed.
The Standards Constantinople cor
respondent also says that if the m
should be confirmed that French aud
American missionaries have been injured
in any of these outrages, IL Is believed that
these powers will no longer confine them
selves to protests. The American fleet,
the correspondent thinks, is only too anx-
ious TO commence active operations.
Continuing, the correspondent says that
recent details received from Erzroom indi-
cate that the massacre there is worse than
mt first reported. The outrages were or
ganized and planned days beforehand,
and the pillage was on "A colossal scale.
The Armenians who escaped were liter
ally naked.
Reports continue to arrive OF troubles
mt Malitich. Arabkir, X arput and Moosh.
1t is reported that innocent persons are
being slain with tho sword and their
buildings destroyed by fire in all these
towns.
A dispatch TO The Daily News from
Constantinople says that the European
eyewitness present at the Erzroom massa.
ere confirms the statement made regard
ing the
Prearranged Nature of the Outrages
He asserts that a bugle was sounded be.
fore the soldiers commenced their muir
derous work throughout the city. At
first the Turkish troops refrained from in.
Turing women and children, but these
bounds were soon passed, and on the 30th
of last month the disorders lasted fully
six hours. Four hundred refugees were
sheltered at the governors house and
fully 300 Armenians concealed themselves
in the homes of the Europeans. Two
hundred and four horribly mutilated
corpses lave been collected in the Ar
menian quarter, and the plundering went
on at a wholesale rate, according TO the nc
count of this witness, who adds:
/ heard of acts Of the basest treachery.
The next day passed quietly, but on the
following day the massacre was resusaed.
T~hirty-six bodies were collected, and
nearly all had bullet, sword and bayonet
wounds. / saw the bodies OF several
women who died in defense of their
honor. Some of the bodies had been
skinned, other bodies had been partly
burned through tho use of petroleum
Many women are missing, and IL IL sup
posed that they were carried of by the
Turks.
Tn Constantinople correspondent OF
Tho Times says: Official reports blaming
Armenians for the disorders at Diarbekir
are groundless, and although the actions
of the Armenians elsewhere nave not al
ways been judicious, the only region in
which 1t can be truly said that the Ar
menians have risen against the author
tiles 10 in the Zeitoun and Marash country.
The Perplexed Sultan.
The sultan is conscious of the weakness
Of the present cabinet, and he is trying to
coax some of the members of his former
cabinet to return, but they have so far re-
jected his overtures, and refused TO set
their foot within the doors OF the palace.
Lord S~al;sbury's speech last Saturday at
the lord mayors dinner has thrown the
sultan and the members of his court into
. state OF panic. Abdul Hamid enter
tains the greatest fears of a declaration by
the powers extending their jurisdiction
over a portion of the Turkish empire by
the calling of a general European confer.
ence. 1t is generally agreed, however,
that the end Is not far distant.