The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1895-04-27
PREPARING FOR A WAR
The Crisis In Armenia Reach.
ing an Acute Stage.
TINE FOR HosTfLITIEs Is sRr



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London, April ia corresuoudent
writing from Armenia. under date a
March II, says:
II have Travelled many hundrsas NJ
miles in Russia and Persia, and have
visited Armenian colonies n far east
- the Caspiaus. and n far south a.
the city Of Tehersu. and have learned
after most careful investigation ana
veFi8cation Of the facts, that the Ar.
menian question viii soon reach the
acute and painful crisis In fact. Ar.
menia il preparing for war. The reyo-
lutiouary party has now both money
and guns During the psst eight weeks
money has poured into the revolution.
AIRY treasury in q steady stream from
the Armenian colonies in Bssoum. Ii
dis, Baku, Erivan, Etchmiadin and
other places in Russia, and from
Rescht, Kazvin, Teheran, Tebrix, Khois
and other cities Of Persia. The central
idea Of the plan Of campaign is gen.
eral uprising Of Armenians throughout
the Turkish empire some time during
the month Of May. The leaders PROM
ise the people in the eastern part Of Ar
menia that the chief attack will be
made in the city Of Conssantinople it.
self, and the brunt Of the fighting will
be done by the Armenian residents
therein, bat this may be only q subter.
fuge 10 encourage the faint hearted at
Van, Bitlis and Nooah.
The Armenians have ut least 4, ZOO
Martini Henry rifles hidden in secret
places in the mountains not a great dis.
lance from Lake Van. For q handful
of unframed Armenians to delibarately
begin q fight with the 800, 600 regular
troops Of the Turkish empire would
seem to be folly too colossal for human
conception; vet the purpose is not to
bring Turkey to terms in fair fight, but
to settle the quarrel by intervention of
the European powers Before the rev.
olution is three months old, the DOW
ers, it is believed, would be compelled
to take q hand in the conflict, for the
cruelty, atrocity, the outrage, the lust
and butchery Of the struggle will be so
unthinkably horrible that Christian
humanity will interfere. Armenia, it
is then hoped, may get her freedom.
For the most part, the revolution
airy leaders are Of the younger genera
ton of Armenians, who argue that il
is no worse that Q few thousand Ar
menians should be killed at one time
than that they should be killed sep
arately during q period of q few
months or years To what extent the
plans Of the revolutionary leaders are
approved by the Armenian people at
large, it is difficult to tell seriously
doubt if those plans are known in de-
tail to more than per cent of the Ar
menians. Still, there are genuine pa
triots who believe that to free Armenia
from the dreadful depth to which she
is sunk they must surrender some of
their fellow -countrymen to torture.
outrage and death.
There is a belief in Europe that
Russia desires to make the Armenians
Russian subjects by annexine the east.
ern end Of Turkey. Curiously enough.
this belief is not shared BY the Rus
SLAMS Of the Caucasian region. The
Georgisns certainly would resent any
further increase in the Armenian popu.
lation. The business methods Of the
Armenians are not generally approved
by Georgians and Russians 1t is
wants the ArmenlAns, but whether or