The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-31
THE APATHY ON ETROPE
Responsible for the Continued Mas
sacres of Christians.
UNFOLDING TURKISH BRUTALITY.

A Stirring Appeal from the Armenian Re
lief Association in Which 1t Is shown
That the sultan's Harsh Measures Are
Due to the Inactivity of the Powers.
NEW YORK, Dec 31.-The Armenian
Relief association gives out the following
for publication on the last day of the year:
"The direct Information received from
various parts of Armenia depicts so APP
palling "A condition of things that words
cannot possibly convey an idea of it. Tho
people of the west may possibly approach
i'm imagination what the suffcrings must
be of people who were living in compare
tive peace i'm cities like Harpoot, Diaubckir,
Sivas and Gurun and upon whom came
suddenly the unheard of calamity of a
massacre initiated and consummated by
the government that was to protect them.
Their men are murdered or imprisoned,
their possessions robbed and their houses
burned and not only are they exposed to
the terrors of famine, and the severe win
ter threatens to exterminate them, but
even mercful death is denied them, and
the reign Of terror is still upon the land,
arrests and tortures still continuing.
THAT the powers of Europe are not
moved by any feeling of humanity in deal
ing with the Turkish question is no more
doubted but it is impossible for us to be.
lieve the conscience of the English people
will not be ultimately shaken from It's un-
paralloled dullness, and to honor the an
cient name of England as defender Of
the right and the champion of the op-
pressed,
Recent letters telling Of the massacros
in various cities contain items of informa-
ton that help to explain many points in
lawful outbreak of so called Mohammcdan
fanatics A letter from Trebizond giving
the testimony of eye witnesses states:
'Bahri Pasha, governor of Van, started
to come to Constantinople, and it was
learned that he was bringing with him
four of the fairest young maidens of Sas-
soun, who had been spared in the massa-
ere, to make an acceptable present of them
to his sultan. This aroused the Armenian
people of Trebizond to frenzy, and it
was impossible to restrain the young men,
the more daring of whom as the newspa-
per dispatches have already informed you,
fired upon Bahri Pasha when he was
going about the city, with the result OF
wounding him. After he was cured, as is
known, he carried out his Internal mission
to Constantinople, and was honorcd with
the highest decoration and appointed gov
4 ernor of Adana, in spite of the nerveless
protest of the ambassadors.
"Afterward the pasha Of Trebizond
calling twelve of the leading men of the
city, demanded that they should hand over
the young men who attacked the governor,
and gave them just few hours in which
to carry out his order. But the chiefs OF
the people did not go to them until the
next day, and then only answered him that
the government could find out and arrest
the offenders.
"The Armenians, not suspecting any
thing, went rs usual to the stores in the
market but the pasha had already begun
| to communicate with the sultan by tele-
| graph, and calling the commanders of the
soldiers ordered them to be ready at a
stated hour. When the mails had arrived
and the people went towards the postofficC
| the trumpet was sounded three times and
both the soldiers and the mob rushed upon
| them. 1t is impossible to describe the
horror of the scene-the roar of the mur-
derers like that of wild beasts, the shrieks
of the women in the houses from whose
arms their husbands and sons were torn
and murdered before their eyes, and uni
versal tumult added to the sighs and
/ groans of the dying And this we know is
only one and not even the most terrible OF
| the massacres over all Turkey.
/ ''News from Diarbekir report unutter-
| able sufferings among those a short time
ago well to do The same from Gurun,
/ where not an Armenian house has been
| left standing where a large community
was to be seen only a few weeks ago
! From every part of Armenia comes the
call to Armenians who are out of the coun,
try begging that money should be sent tc
the survivors of their families without de
lay, as they have neither food nor fuel
nor scarcely any clothing. In all cities
/ where the Armenians were slaughtered by
thousands numbers of the young maidens
besides the slain, are missing, and known
TO have been carried into the harems OF
the Turks and Kurds.
"When we consider the apparent con
Germ of Europe to learn the facts of tn,
/ Sassoun massacre we may as well stat,
that such outrage has never before beer
committed upon the conscience and sensC
of decency of the civilized world as this
bloody aftermath of slaughter and abduc
ton 1t is impossible not to see that the
whole aim of the Turkish government in
this bloody movement has been to extir
pate American Christian influence from
Armenia, because the sultan finds that in
fluence to be an enemy of oppression anC
an impulse towards advancement and civ
ilization."
Coal Boats Wrecked, One Man Killed.
PITTsBURG, Dec. 3l.--The towboat Harry
Brown, while enroute to the south with a
/ loron fIent Of coal bo1ts ran ooroupd at