The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-27
SUMMING UP.
A View of the Damage Done and the
Lives Lost.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 25. via
Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 26.-Now that
matters seem to be quieting down
again here and in the Asiatic prov
inces, people are beginning to form an
estimate of the amount of damage done
and the number of lives lost during the
recent disturbances. Well informed
Arrnenians estimate the losses through
the events which have just taken place
in Anatolia alone at $50. 100000, and the
number of victims at 10000. Of course
these are Armenian estimates, but
there seems good reasons for believing
that the property destroyed, the num-
Der of lives sacrificed and the terrible
outrages committed are far beyond
anything hitherto estimated or de-
Scri'bed.
But this is not all. People competent
to pronounce an opinion upon the sub
ject say that with the coming of win
ter there will be very many more
deaths from exposure and famine and
that even the prompt collection of re-
lief funds, food and clothing cannot
avert much loss of life and great suf-
fering. Famine is threatened in a
number of districts and there seems
TO be no way of preventing it.
The powers, instead of ordering their
fleets away from Turkish waters, as
the sultan requested, seem to be de-
terDined upon keeping them in this
vicinity for an indefinite period. a
norton of the British Mediterranean
meet, IL is reported here, will soon leave
Salonica bay for Smyrna, where the
powers are mastering their fighting
ships. The warships of Great Britain
expected TO rendezvous at Smyrna
this week will consist of nine battle
ships, four cruisers and four smaller
boats The rest OF the Salonica bay
fleet will, it is said, remain off that
port for the present, ready for any
emery ency.
Itaiys flag floats from two battle
Ships and two cruisers and four small
craft in the waters of Smyrna.
Russia has two cruisers on the way
to Smyrna in addition to a powerful
feet cruising in the western portion Of
the Black sea.
The United States has been represen-
ted at Smyrna by two cruisers, and
Germany has one small gunboat there,
but it is rumored that two German
battle ships are on their way.
Austria has at Smyrna one battle
ship, two cruisers and two small gun
boats.
OF course this is not a naval dem
onstration." 1t is simply the concen-
tration Of the foreign fleets at point
agreed upon apparently between the
powers.
No progress has been made in the
matter of the application to the porte
of the representations of Great Britain,
Russia. Italy and Austria for perlnis-
sion for the passage through the
straits of the Dardanelles and on into
the Bosphorus of an extra gunboat to
act as an additional guardship for
their respective embassies.
The ambassadors will hold an infor-
NAL meeting today in order TO decide
what steps tc take to put an end to
the so-called "shuff1ing" of the porte.
The impression prevails that if the
Ermans are not very soon granted the
extra gunboats will pass the Dardan-
Files without the porte's permission
even If they have to be conveyed
through by battle ships stripped for ac-
lion.
Indeed, nobody here can see how the
powers can retreat from the position