The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-22
All the Districts Alleged to he Inr
fected Are I'm the Mountains and
Covered Deep with snow.
GEN. LEW WALLACE KISSED
ARMENIANs At CHICAGO OFFENDED
BY PRAISE OF TURKS.
The HOOsier's Lecture Last Night In>
terrupted Several Times-No Attcn-
ticn Paid to the Discourtesy.

Copyright, 1895, by the Associated Press.l
LONDON, Feb. 21.--The special corre>
spondent of the Associated Press who was
sent out from London to Armenia to in-
vestigate to the atrocities said to have
been perpetrated on the Armenians and
whose first report, in letter sent from
Tiflis, Russia, received here the
I'd inst and capled to the United States that
day, has made second report. This, like
the first one, posted at Tiflis. 1t iR
dated Jan. IS. In it the correspondent says:
I'm the letter ! wrote ten days ago, Civ
ing the result of some preliminary in-
quiries 1 had made at Constantinople, SAM
SCUM, Kerasund, Trebizond and Tifiis, con-
corning the alleged atrocities and the stats
of affairs generally in Armenia. en-
deavored TO convey some idea of the diff
ficuities that would be encountered in prose-
cutting any sort of investigation or getting
at the real facts of the case. That did
not exaggerate these difficulties will be APP
parent from further information on the
point, which 1 am now in a position to
supply. Take, to begin with, the cholera
quarantine which is being enforced in
various portions of the Sultan's dominions
in such manner to draw net around
the districts of Armenia in which the atroci-
ties are alleged to have occurred and to
RACES all independent investigators. 1t is
announced that cholera exists in Van.
Bitlis and Moosh and that strict quarantine
regulations must, therefore, be enforced.
Now, it certainly is a peculiar circumstance
that cholera should have happened to break
out at this season of the year in the region
of the Sassoun massacres and no whers
else in Asia Minor. Who is to prove or dis
prove the statement that the disease is
raging IN those show-eIad and practicalisU
inaccessible mountain Businesses? Even in
Constantinople and Stamboul, little or
nothing is known by the public or by news
paper correspondents concerning the cholera
outbreaks officially reported from time to
time in these cities. In the Turkish capital
a medical officer reporting a case of cholera
receives double pay until clean bill OF
health issreturned from the affected dis
trict and in country like Turkey 1T is not
surprising if doctors find symptoms Of
cholera in everything from Group TO typhoid
fever
OBJECT OF THE CHOLERA SCARE
TT is pretty thoroughly understood that
quarantine law is the highest law on earth,
and that even international courtesy must
bow to it. So, when we told as we
have been during the past few days, that
an epidemic of cholera has suddenly made
it's appearance in the region of the Sas-
SCUM massacre, even a blind man can see
| that it is meant to delay and obstruct the
work of the Turkish commission of In
curry It is believed here that the Turks.
forced to the wall by the protest of the
foreign delegates on the commission, threw
nm the last obstruction and hoisted the yell
low flag upon 1t. Even foreign delegat6
could not ignore a cholera quarantine OF
been vouchsafed as to the form in winch
the cholera epidemic has manifested itself
| in the Sassoun mountains One IS forced
| to believe that il is raging among the rocks
and mountain peaks like snowstorm, Ior,
as matter OF tact. there are t no ~ nun,an IN
| present time for any sort OF disease 70
feed upon. Those who were not killed iq
| narts of the country and those who did
not have sense enough to flee have Deen
| clapped into jail. OF course there are. many
| persons i'm and around Moosh who know
| what took place in the Sassoun mountains
last autumn. and GOOD emee,lvo fran, ae9t;na
| at the commission or the commission from
set" ..it E argued that if the Turks have sue.
ceeded in repairing the damages 10 the
| Sassoun villages there is no reason why
the commission should not be allowed 10
| visit the scene of the MASSAGE and hounder
about in ten feet Of snow III It cared Ior
| that sort of thing. but the refusal OF tns me
the Sassoun country and the timely quaran-
| the suggests that the money sent 70 re-
J build theedestroyed villages has been stolen
I or that the snow was so deep before the
| money arrived that nothing could be done:
In that case the bodies oil TN tne ow Du.cnsrh The
| Turks will take good care that they reacn esc,.
| the scene first in the spring and ans clear a.,
| dignant Christianity insists upon sending
/ in an independent investigating COMMISSION;
| The Turks are reasonably safe untH Apr1l
| ard nv that time their marvellous ingenuity
/ may find way out of the diincuity- 7n EsSn
without the cholera l,enasbe buarantihh aor the conmis
| sion to make any real headway until spring
| owing to the intense cold ana tne gfeae gesa
| amount of snow in Armenia The sltuation
nav he Judged to some degree by the fact
/ that the roads TO Erivan and Kars, IN
| Russia, which are In mucn loWer al,l.uus; ,a,i
| have been Tor more tHaii q Aoitis"@ S
with snow.
MANY STORIES OF OUTRAGES.
.erales OF oppression. outrage and murder
7 In other parts of Armenian Turkey are as
| thick as blackberries here and along the
| southern coast of the Black sea- ana
| enough information is obtainable from thor
| oughly trustworthy sources to establish the
main facts without the aid Of the more
| or less wild rumors of Armenian origin.
| the very absurdty of which makes tho
/ patient investigator weary OF his task. II
| the detailed facts of the Sassoun massacre
| are ever established and they. probably
| never will be-, they must be established In
| dependently OF Armenian testimony or their
| value may be seriously questioned. This
| is open 10 reasonable explanation. In the
| first place. every Armenian with whom it
has been my lot TO come III contact, seems
| TO have a very vague idea of the value OF
n,s ann ,rnt 70 o ms ssn aapast
| the Turk. he is willing TO publish as fact
any grotesque rumor that he may chance s
place. he does not really know what actual
/ ~ took place in the Sassoun mountains. hut
| his vanity will not permit him 70 acknowi-
edge. IL, and SO 10 be up with the tines
and help along the cause OF his people. he
embelishes the runor that he hears. and
|