The Dickinson press., 1895-12-14

the United States government to take
under official protection the men who
distribute. Otherwise 1t will not be
permitted by Turkey. A relief COM
mission should be organized In Ameri-
ca on an Independent basis to have at
least four superintendents of distri-
button, n at Alexandria to 70 to
Aintab, Marash and Oorfa, reaching
the case also of the needy in the
Taurus mountains; another at Trebi-
zond and Erzeroum, with a view to
reaching the regions Of Bitlis and
Van; and a third at Sassoun for the
regions from Mars0van to Harpoot.
The fourth should go to Diarbekir and
Mardin. There will undoubtedly be
large amount Of aid sent from Eng
land. Probably 1t will be well for the
alliance with those in England in or.
der to cove the ground without lap
ping. There Is need of the greatest
haste in getting some effective relief
into the field. The people will be dy-
ing of exposure and starvation very
soon. Moreover, the Turks are try!Ek
by every -meaEsss 4 tI.ir power to
i6Tve the survivors to become Mo-
hammedans. They are Offering aid on
these conditions in some places, and
in others are picking up the desolate
widows and orphans and simply TAX
make them Mohammedons without,
any VIII Of the captives." sss.hSyNaEE
General War Predicte1slsSssi5
The correspondent, in referrlks1G
the general situation. says: 55iEsIssSTSsM4s
"The inertness Of Russia is d46kt6'
England and not to her own willing
ness to act. This state of affairs gives
no cheering prospect for immediate
and lasting improvement in Turkey,
and 1t seems now as If q European
war Over the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the
empire was imminent. If such a
war it will probably be between Rus
STA, France and Germany on the one
side and England, Italy and Austria
on the other side. But 1t is thought.
however, that Russia may make an
alliance with Turkey on the basis of
a sort of vassalship of the new sultan
(whoever he may bel to the z
Meanwhile, so long as the powers
merely threaten the sultan with fleets,
unaccOmpanied with means for climb
ing mountains, he simply chuckles and
proceeds with his cruelties and out
RACES, while suavely declaring all the
time that neither cruelty nor outrages
exist save in the Imagination of the
English Liberals and Of the American
missionaries"
Word has been received here from
Pardeza. Western Turkey, to the eff
feet that more that 10000 people have
been b%utchered in Turkey in spite of
the assertions of the sultan and his
advisors that there have been only
slight disturbances. These facts come
from a reliable correspondent, who
adds:
"These people have been fendishly
butchered under the very noses of the
representatives of the so-called great
powers; their goods have been carried
of. In many cases their houses ana
even whole villages have been burned
while the great bloody letter of Con-
grins and snaps his fingers
in the face of EurOne. Even America
has been sitting at ease while the
people she has been instrumental in
arousing to thoughts of higher things
been driven to the slaughter"
Constantinople, Dec. 12.-The long
drawn out controversy between the
ambassadors Of the powers and the
sultan owe the question of admission
Of additional guard ships for the pro-
Of the embassies was settled
to-day by the issuance of an trade
granting the necessary firmans to per-
NIT the guardships to pass the Oar
danelles. The demand was first made
upon the sultan on Nov. 10, and
scarcely a day has passed since then.
without it's being renewed In a more
or less peremptOry manner. The ill.,
genuity displayed by the Turkish gov
eminent in evading a direct answer
the demand, OF when forced to an
swer, the effective pleadings put forth
for delay had almost brought the mind
of Europe to the conviction that the
demand would never be complied
with. Meantime days and weeks
passed by without any action and the
condition of things in Constantinople
that brought out the demand has al
most passed. The final triumph of
the powers in forcing a compliance
with their demands seems a barren
one, and the ~long-sought permission
to double the regular guardships for
the embassies. now that it is obtained,
hardly worth taking advantage
of. Rumors which have apparent
in fact here of a whole
sale conspiracy which may have for
its object the deposing of the sultan.
1t is known that a number of promt-
nent Armenians here and several mil
ftary otncers OF high rank in the
Turkish army and navy have been
closely watched for months past, but
in spite Of this surveillance, they have
in escaping from the coun-
try. That the conspiracy was of a
most important nature may be judged
from the fact that among the fugitives
in the sultan's aide-de-camp. Hassan
Dtemi Pasha. who. 1t is believed was
to have led the disaffected of the inn
perial guards into the palace and
the sultan.
A Lost River i'm Georgia.
Quite an interesting phenomenon ia
to be seen in connection with one of
the big streams, the Ocilla creek, in
Thomas county. After ~traversing in
a s%outherly direction, the central por-
ton of the county, and supplying two
large mills and cotton gins. Hancock's
and Eason's, the latter. four miles be-
low the former, with water power and
forming n large fish pond above each
of these mills. 1t then, ONE mile below
Eason's mill. in the midst Of the pine
rides, disappears into subterranean
channels by which hOrdes Of alliga-
tors. fish and turtles find exit to parts
unknown. This place is known as
Cones sink. and is one of the finest
fishing grounds in Southern Georgia.
1t presents the appearance of beauti-
full connecting lakes for a distance
through the inviting forests, and is a
favorite resort for fishermen and those