The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-23
Armenian Revolutionary Committees Try.
Ing to Provoke Further MaSSaCreS,
IN ORDER TO BRING ABOUT ARMED
INTERVENTION OF POWERS
The Sultan in Receipt of Many Threat.
enina Letters-Foreigners at Mairsh
Represented as Being In Great
Danger From an Attack by Kurd-
ish Raiders.

NEW YORK, Nov 23.-A special
cable dispatch to the Herald from vi
emma says:
Information received from Consuls in
various parts of Turkey confirms the
impression that the Armenian revolu-
tiOnary committees are endeavOring to
provoke further massacres, in order to
bring about the armed intervention of
the Powers.
The Sultan receives many threaten
ing letters. His majesty has cOngrat-
ulated Baron Won Der Goltz Pasha,
who organized the mobilization of the
Turkish troops, on the regular and
speedy way in which the mobilization
was carried out. The object now de-
sired by the Sultan is to float a large
loan abroad.
The German Emperor has expressed
his firm belief that peace will be main
tanned.
LONDON, Nov 22-The correspond
ent of the United Press at COnstanti-
nOple telegraphs under date of NOvem-
Der Dist that telegraphic advices from
Marash represent the foreigners there
as being in great danger from attack
by Kurdish raiders.
A letter received in COnstantinOple
from ErZerOum under date of NoVem-
Der 9TH supplies abundant proof that
the maSSacreS there were begun and
ended by Turkish soldiers acting under
orders, rather than by the populace,
who followed the lead of the soldiers
throughout.
The soldiers and their civilian allies
| piundered one thousand dwellings and
! two thousand shops, and killed one
| thousand men, women and children.
! The Government, the letter says, is now
| endeavOring to restore to the people
such of their property as may be avail
able, and to distribute some bread
among the starving inhabitants doubt
| less under instructions from COnstan-
| tinOple.
The United Press correspondent adds
! that it is reported in ConstantinOple
that ten Albanian guards were ex-
| ecuted in the YildiZ Palace Wednesday
evening. The Governmnt has officially
issud a threat to severely punish any
person found guilty of marking houses
occupied by Armenians in CONSTANT
pople.
One hundred and fifty Softas and
members of the Young Turks party,
who have been active in fomenting dis
| tUrbances, were expelled from Con-
stantinople on Wednesday.
|
prohibiting English newspapers of the
date of November 18th, German papers
of the 18th of November and American
| papers of November 18th and 10Th en-
! tering the country.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 22-In
| consequence of the dangers to mission
aries at Marash, the Hon. a. w. Ter
rell, the American Minister, and the
Hon. NJ. H. Herbert, the British
A fcx. L !. ii
! the Porte that it protect the AmeTi-
cans, Englishmen and other foreigners
there.
The General commanding at Marash
continues his negotiations looking to
the surrender of the Armenians who
recently captured some of the fortifica-
tions at ZeitOun.
The Sultan has appointed Menduh
| Pasha Minister of the Interior. Rechid
Bey and Nefi Effendi a special commit
tee Of supervision to record daily and
nightly the results of the measures to
restore order in Anatolia.
The victims at Aintab number 200.
The Porte denies that the Arabs of
the Yemen district in Arabia, headed
by the Inaum of Sena, are in revolt
and that the Turkish forces are in
vested in the town of Sena, as was re-
ported a few days ago.
LONDON, Nov. 22-The Daily News
reports that Lord Salisbury has urged
the Sultan to promise protection to the
/ revolving Armenians at Zertoun if they
will surrender. Unless terms are made
they are certain to be ruthiessly muir
deTed.
LONDON, Nov. 22.-The Daily News
viii tomorrow publish a dispatch from
Constantinople saying that the embas-
sizes have been informed that tribunals
empowered with final decision will be
Immediately formed in Armenia. These
/ tribunals viii virtually exercise MARTA
law and try all persons accused of caus-
ing disturbances. The dispatch adds
that unless the tribunals are carefully
S11nnrNiSed there will be a bloody aSSiZe