The herald., 1895-10-29
MORE MASSACRES BY TURKS
A Repetition of the Late Hideous
Bruta!itieS
OUTRAGE AND MUTILATION
The Old Cry of Provocation by Ar
menians
Armed HusseImans in Large Bodies Attack
DefenceIess Villigers, nurdering Women
and Children and Burning Houses


Assc ciated Press Special Wire
! CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 2s.-An-
other terrible massacre OF Armenians is
reported to have occurred in Baiburt dis
| trict between Erzeroum and Trebizond
About 1900 Musselmans and Lazes. a ma
| jority of whom were armed with Mar
tint Henry lilies, attacked the Armenians
inhabiting several villages in that vicin-
| lty, and set fire to their houses and
schools. AS the Armenians fled in ter
| ror they were shot down and the women
captured by rioters were fastened to
stakes and burned alive. Armenian wo-
men who fell into the hands OF the mob,
1t Is also asserted were brutally outraged
and mutilated. 1t is also stated that the
churches were desecrated and villages
pillaged. Cattle and portabl property
OF any value belonging to the Armeni-
ans were carried off by the marauders.
One hundred and fifty Armenians are re-
ported killed. Surviving villagers ap-
piled to the governor of Balrburt for pro-
lection, Ewho, after hearing their COM
plant, sent three policemen to the scene
Of the mas=acr after the slaughter had
enued. Turkish officials it is claimed
know the ringleaders of the outbreak
nut apparently no steps had been taken
| to arrest them.
Tne nnmpsr OF ArmenIans m msssacred
al Erzingjan sis now said to be several
hundred. The Turks, it is stated have
also attacked Armenians in the district
of Gum mushdagh. near Trebizond. and
slaughtered many.
LONDON, Oct. 2S.-A dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company from Con-
stantinople says that the outbreak at
Baiburt was provoked by the Armenians.
| AT the Turkish embassy here it is sid
! that all the distur Dances are the direct
result of an organized conspiracy COW
erng various parts of the country, which
was foretold in the dispatches of the As
| sociated Press some months ago.
CONSTANTlNOPLE, Oct. 2S.-Tt is
officially declared that the Armenians
provoked the Baburt disturbance by fir
| ing upon the Musse lmans and that MANY
persons were killed and wounded on
both sides before the gendarmes sup
pressed the riotins. 1t is also stated tina t
the Armenians 'ln warrantablv attacked
the Musselmans at Mardsh and Zeitung.
Another dispatch received today asserts
that Ma or Bekir of the notorious Ham
ideh cavalry, was burned alive on Octo-
Der 4th in church at Diadim.
NEW YORK, Oct. 80. DIR. q. c. Stra-
hinian OF California arrived in the city
on the steamer Moravia. The doctor,
| who was horn in Mezopotamia. Armenia,
came to America in 1870. graduated IN
medicine from tne New York university
! and practiced here until 1885, when he
removed to California. in 1888. he re-
turned to Marsoon, Armenia. The
Turkish government refused to let him
practice until he became a citizen OF that
country. but this he refused to do. After
ward, through friendly intervention he
| was left unmolested and succeeded IN
building up good practice. lr 1892 he
again came to America bringing his fam
lily with him. They settled in California,
but early in this year the dotor received
letter from an cid Armenian friend in
! the government employ at Constanti-
| nople who urged him to return to Tur-
key. He promised to have the doctors
diploma recognized ant guaranteed he
would he able to practice in safety. Ar.
irving in Armenia June !, he was well
received by his custom house friend and
intro duced to Nazsum Pasha, minister %
| police. The Pasha promised to arrange
everything in few days and asked the
doctor for lis photograph, that it might
| be sent to the sultan. In the meantime
his friend asked for his papers of Ameri-
can citizenship and his diploma for the
rurpose of letting the Pasha look over
| them. A day or two after this he discov'
cred that his friend had misreprsented
! sell; that his position as CuStomg
official was a blind and that he really
was the chief of government spies en-
! ployed to watch his fellow countrymon.
The next day the doctor was summon
ed before the minister of police and was
treat ed very cordially. The minister eX.
| planned to him that he wished him tJ
call on q certain Armenian editor and
! find out if he was a member OF an Ar
menian HON e-Tule suciety called the
| Hentchag. AT first he refused to do so,
! but when reminded that all his papers
we're in their possession and that the
service required of him would last but
a few days, he consented. For two
months he was kept continually at this
W ork. Every few days he appealed to
the pasha, but was pur off.
Repeatedly he appealed on his knees
! to the pasha. until AT last when they
/ were convinced that he would do their
work no longer he was permitted to sail
| but without his papers or citizenship.
Tne doctor LETT Constantinople on Sep
! tenn ber 18th. two days before the m 1ssa
ere of Armenians in the streets of that
city. Til doctor rays he anticipated the
were preparing Il petition to .he sultan
and he was convinced that the police
would make that a nretex5 tor slaughter.
The doctor will join his family in Cali
| fornia next week, and there he expects
| to spend the rest of his days.
LONDON, Oct. 29.-The Daily News
SAYS it hears Lord Saliurys is dissatisfied
I with the sultan's verbal guarantee uf
Armenian reforms, and that the four
| great powprs fuvor an early European
| on tho Turkish question: