The San Francisco call., 1895-10-16
FORTY-SIX SLAIN BY A MOSLEM
MOB AND A LARGE NUM-
Der WOUNDED.
AMBASSADORS TAKE ACTION
AN AGREEMENT SUBMITTED TO THE
SULTAN TO BE FOLLOWED BY
AN ULTIMATUM.

LONDON, ENG, Oct. 15.-The Daily
News tomorrow will print dispatch
from Constantinople saying that the agita-
ton there has been renewed, owing to the
eglect of the Turkish officials to fulfill
their promise of security given to the
Armenian refugees when they left the
churches.
Another attack was made on Kassim
Pasha and other Armenians on the 18th
inst, when four were killed and number
wounded. 1t is alleged that the police re-
fused to interfere. Details have been re-
ceived of an attack on Armenians by
Moslem mob at Akkishar on the 9th inst.
Forty-six Armenians were killed and q
large number wounded.
A telegram from Rome to the Central
News says that the Italian dispatch-boat
Roma has been ordered to Trebizond, the
scene of the recent riots between Turks
and Armenians, to protect the Italian resi-
dents of the city.
The Chronicle tomorrow will print the
following dispatch from Constantinople,
under date October IA:
Sir Philip Currie, NJ. Cambon and M.
Nelidoff, the British, French and Russian
ambassadors, met here yesterday and
drew up final agreement. This they
submitted to Said Pasha, the Foreign Min
lister, who went instantly to the Sultan.
The scheme contains provisions of which
no alteration will be made. A favorable
answer was expected to-day, but at 4
O'Clock no reply had been received. This
was regarded as a bad sign, indicating a
fresh attempt of the Sultan to gain time,
but the ambassadors are resolved not to
permit a further indefinite disposition,
| therefore the proposals will be quickly
followed by an ultimatum.
! The ambassadors hold identical views,
but their Governments are not unanimous
hence the hesitation to use force. The key
| to the situation is Russia's unwillingness
| to see Armenia organized with autonomy.
1t is serious fact that yesterdays pro-
posals revert, with slight alterations, to
the scheme of May IL. The demand for
| Christian high commissioner to be ap-
| pointed by the powers is dropped.
| The Chronicle, commenting on the affair,
will describe it as a climb down. awe
| have been outbluffed and have had slap
| in the face that high-spirited people
! ought not to tolerate. We have to thank
the Weakened champion of Toryism.
We need never trust Lord Salisbury to
play the part of a strong man again" The
| Chronicles anger seems to arise from the
fact of the terms of the proposition being
no stronger than were Lord Rosebery's on
| May IL.
| The Constantinople correspondent of the
| Standard, in dispatch which that paper
will print tomorrow, renews his attacks
on the Hintchak Society, which, he says,
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Europe with pamphlets advocating ad-
vanced anarchism. During the last few
days, whenever Armenians have reopened
their shops, emissaries of this society
have imm ediately forced them to close
them again for the purpose of maintaining
the appearance of panic, although the
| Armenians are ready and anxious to re-
sumo business. The result has been an
enormous loss, solvent houses allowing
their bills to be protested. The loss is
variously estimated at hundred thousand
| to half million francs.
| The onus of the present situation, the
correspondent says, lies with the Armenian
| leaders, and on neither the Armenian pop
ulace nor the police. The writer describes
visit made by him to one of the prisons.
| He says he was allowed to freely question
| the prisoners, who did not appear to have
any serious cause for complaint. A
commission of inspection sent to the
authorities a list of fifty-six pris-
oners with a accommodation for
| their liberation. The correspondent con-
versed with HAHN Pasha, who bitterly
complained. of the manner in which he
has been fettered by the powers and by re-
| NEG led amnesties A II the leaders Of the roy
olutionary movement are protected by am
nesties. Indeed, the chief of the Hintchak
Society started for Marseilles on Sunday
at midnight under the surveillance of
secret police.
| So long as revolutionary societies are
protected in Europe while they fomenu
sedition in ConstantinopIe, says the writer,
all of Hazim's efforts will be frustrated.