The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-09
THE DEMAND DELAYED.
No Extra GuardShipS Have Yet
Passed the Dardanelles.
TURKISH DIPLOMATIC SUCCESS.
Frantic Efforts by the Sultan TO
Induce said paSha 10 Return.


copyrighted 1926. by the Associated Press.
Constantnop'e, Dec. Via soda.
Bulgaria. Dec. S-The situation here on
the question or the extra gUartiShfps of
the powers remains UNCHANGED aud con
tinues io offer A tribute ~ the powers Of
delay and evasion of Oriental diplomacy
as Practced by the Turkish government
statements are constantly reiterated of
the continued accord of the powers On
the subject. and their united determua-
ton % insist upan a compliance with
their demands. Less = heard of tho rtI-
mors. which We're or frequent Occurrences
in the early period after the demand
had been presented. that the sultan had
ar length decided 10 grant the necessary
iirmaDs 70 permit the passage of the Oar
danelles. or even that he had actually S.
sued them. Neither IS there such cxhi-
cit announcement any mere OF the period
which is to e,apsc before a movement OF
the warships Of the powers IS 10 COM
mence 10 enforce the demands made upon
the sultan. Since the return Of n. NJ. :.
priad 20 Sa'onica hay no word has hcen
heard ~ any actual order or movement
% advance upon the pardanelles. optn-
ion continues divided as 90 whether thu
delay in takiug any action 20 enforce tho
demands s dur % fear 20 causing a
fanat.cai outbreak against the Christians
hy tho MusSuiman hieets ~ the sultan.
or to a dread of a clash ensu.ng hciWs.an
the powers themselves The reception
today ly the su.tan of ". Ne.hiorns 1hs
Russian amaGesnlar. in private audience.
aWakens the unanimous speculation as %
the true relation 90 Russla 60 the situa-
t'en ami tae extent ~ her akrccmens
wth tae KlsWa af the paRrrs.
The n'aht 80 ~ai Fasha An3 hls re-
flse u tar British embassy are sunscts
90 fBe most stHatf ruaI stories. AMI ia
almost franti- efforts made hF en- sultan
tn Iu.u.r H.m t1 iHAFH aa4 return O. TIE
NHlE palace Hlf..afgs Hs fear mat he
has iast fhr MOST lgaerfH. Intermediary
fhAf le na4l1 AaEe far between himself
ana tHe rnwrfs in aNo ii4E fae demands
they make uuHn Hm. ~ the maFf dsnser-
nas adversary De- could fear haHing tasn
in counsel Wfa fne fsoWerH
That thr sultan lives ln a state % con-
afanf arrrt hfueian ~ His iife wts iudi-
Gated bs h.s demeanar duunE the course
~ the ceremony ~ taa sulsmik un fFi-
daF. mhI.h involved the departure a tie
sultan frrm the wallis af tne palace and
hla appearance in nmhiie far a sfTf - re-
Viex - the froaps. attended ~ many high
onleials. followed hy prayers az the
mosque on Frtiay. AZ the sultan Vas
quittlHg the mos4ae. a man attired as a
TURK. BEARING a petition. forced himself
throaEh the soldiers 20 the sultan's ear
riaHe. The sultan Was seen 60 become
much agitated and deafhly pale. but the
man was promptly arrested and hustled
OF to prison without having accomplished
any harm % the suhAn's person.
Explicit Instructions were again received
today hy an tho ambassadors TO Insist on
the admission % the Euardships. hut. ~
has been stated. without any change tn
the situation. so persistent has been tho
pressure on said pasha 20 leave the Brit
ish embassy and upon the embassy 90 re-
linquish him. that all palace officials are
now excluded from there except one OF
the palace sheiks, whom the sultan has
sent. and VINO vainly tried 10 induce said
Pasha 10 relont and return 10 the sultan
The sultan has protested TO the powers
against the exclusion of his messengers.
but the other ambassadors support Sir
Phillip Currie in MS position. The report
that they advise said Pasha to again ao-
cept the position Of grand vizier has
proved TO be uufounded.
Authentic details have been received OF
the Sivas massacre They show that tho
slaughter began on November II and con-
tinuod for "A week following. 1t is known
that POO Armeuians and ten Turks were
killed before there was a cessation OF the
bloody work
The manner OF the outbreak Is described
as follows: Suddenly, at noon. a. II by
preconcerted signal. the Turkish soldiers
and police the Circasslaus. and even tho
iahorers and Noslem women and children,
rushed into the market under command
ers with tools or clubs or anything that
came 10 hand that could De- used as an
offensive weapon They attacked and loot
ed the Armenian shops and pursued win
fury the iecag Armeulans Many mer-
chants and clerks we're killed and their
bodies stripped As the importing business
was almost exclusively ia the hands OF
the ATmeulans, financial disaster must
overtake Siyas when the fury of blood and
greed has subsided The stricken Arme-
mans slowly gathered the mangied re-
mains OF their knsIneu and buried them IN
q great trench IN the cemetery The Ar
ruenlan villages in the vicinity were also
looted and the peopse lelt 20 beg and die
The winter will bring terrible suffering 10
an the living victims = h.gh Official. IA
a positlon TO know. declares the massacres
were the deliberate act OF the sultan
vengeance for having been compelled 30
grant reforms In Armenia demanded hy tho
powers A few Turkish shops were at
tackled to AFFORD a prcteNt on which 70
accuse the Arrneuians n having started
tho disorder. u is asserted that the kla-
maxim OF Guerin whore there are 500
Armenians, telegrarhef 10 the Fali of
Siyas.
you may rest assured there Is not an
Armenian left in Gucrin. They resisted
tire butchers and they have suffered for
II"
The explleion and removal ~ the Arme-
mans from Constantin0pie and from the
vilavets continues by the Wholesale. All
the Armenian mouasteries fn the vicinity
~ Erzring1an have been ptiaged. The
massacre here occurred after the Arnne-
mans had been aisarned, andEokki Pasha
had faithfully PROMISED 10 protect them.
A. the village 81 Pasuan. near Erzsingtan.
the Kurds and Turks attacked a crowd Of
Arrnenians who had taken refuge in an
Armenian church and kBtd forty of them.
-Four hundred we're killed and so were In
itlred in the FrzeiDs Jan district.
London. Dec. sl--Fhe Afarqnis Of Sails
bury has written 70 the treasurer Of the
Armenian relief fund 10 the effect that the
sonsul al Aioosh. through the British am
t,assador. sir Philip currie, reports that
Inc Arruanians OF the Bifiis district are ia
danger OF starving. The treasurer has
fnrvya rded "a 10 for Hitlis, KAarpoot. Err
srorrn. gardiu and Trebizond.
The Daily Ne~s ConstantinOple CORE
e.ordeut IN a dispatch 10 that paper.
ss,-r. 1T IS probable that ar = result OF
yegotfstfons said Pasaa VIII voluntarily
lt,,5t fhe British embassy. Lord Salisbury
has selexragned his approval ~ sir Philip
CURES conduct. Meantime the doora OK
the embassy are closed. and the force
which was landed IL the arIDasa1oT yacht
patro1s the ground.
..R4zg.a's hesitation has ceased. u -
currently reported that IL NeildoTn. RVs-
sian a~rlhassadcr today gave the sultan
tha cars message. insisting upon tns en-
Try cr the gusrdsnips."
10000 Armenian. Killed In Ten Days.
sfernphls Dec s-The relatives of Mrs.
Helen goyster Bl.sz, who reside Ia Nam