The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-18
He Signs the Document Prepared by
the Powers and Promises to Make
Changes in All the Provinces.
COMMENTS OF BRITISHERS
REPORT OF THE BRUTAL MASSACRE
AT AKHIsZAR CONFIRMED.
Four Hundred Armenians Now Said to
Have Been slaughtered by Mus
suImans at Trebixond.

stantinople say that the Sultan has given
his consent to the scheme proposed by the
powers for the Introduction of reforms
in the government Of Armenia. The Sultan
has signed the document as approved by
Said Pasha.
The Constantinople correspondent of the
Standard says: 1.-The Turkish papers, in
announcing the consent of the Armenian
reforms. state that the Sultan has decided
TO introduce reforms in all provinces of
the empire. beginning with Anatolia. The
reforms comprise an Increase and reor-
ganization of the gendarmerie and Of the
police forces and the amelioration of the
administrative and judicial branches of the
service"
An editorial in the Times this morning
says: 1T will probably be too much to
expect the extension of the Armenian re-
forms to other portions of the Turkish en-
pire, yet nothing would more powerfully
consolidate the Sultan's real authority"
The Daily News liberal organ). COM
menting on the same subject, presumes
that the powers have accepted Mussul-
man instead of a Christian high commits
sioner. 'If so." the Daily News adds 'it
will be severe disappointment to Ar
menias best friends. 1t is evident that the
concert of the powers has been more AZ,
parent than real"
A dispatch to the Daily News from Con-
stantinople says: An eyewitness of the
Trebizond massacre says that the Armen-
ian quarter there was completely sacked
and the mob only desisted when nothing
was left to pillage to kill. The soldiers
assisted in the massacre with their rifles
The better class of Turks gave protection
and shelter in their own homes to the
Armenian women and children, so that
none Of these were killed in the town it.
self. These same Turks obtained permis-
sion for the Armenian refugees to shelter
themselves in the barracks during the fol-
lowing night, when 1t was feared the mas
sacre would be renewed. Several Armen-
ian villages outside of Trebizond were
burned and pillaged, and lives there were
taken also"
The Chronicles Constantinople cor
respondent says. THE Sultan has so feared
exasperating Mussulmans by consenting to
the reforms that the minister was obliged
to implore him to sign the documents. /
fear that English opinion will be greatly
disappointed when the terms of the re-
form scheme become known. But nothing
better could be obtained without the ap-
pearance of British fleet in the Dar-
danelles, which would have involved the
instant disruption Of the triple entente
between England. Russia and France).
and probably Russian occupation of Ar
menia. Sir Philip Currie therefore, has
done the best possible without causing a
serious breach between England and Rus
sia. This temporary solution. however
will not save the Sultan from an out
break of dangerous anti-dynastic feeling,
of which the Sultan will probably be the
victim"
The Chronicle believes that the British
fleet will remain at Lemnos. in the
Aegean sea. which is about fifty miles
from the mouth of the Dardanelles, until
adequate guarantees for the execution Of
/ the Armenian reforms have been given.
! Movements of the Russian Fleet.
| LONDON, Oct. 1S.-An Odessa dispatch to
the Times says that the Black sea Russian
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