The herald., 1895-12-09
Oriental Diplomacy Evades Com.
pIiance With Demands
THE CONCERT OF EUROPE
Seems Less Harmonious Than Has Been
Claimed
The Late Massacres Declared to Be the De-
ilberate Act Of the Revcngeful
Sultan Of Turkey
Associated Press Special Wire.

CONCI AN llNOTIE, DeC I, VIA oOua,
Bulgaria, Dec. S.-CopvrIghtcd. 1895. by
the Assoc lated Prcss--The situation here
ON the question Of ezra guardships Of the
powers remains unchanged and continues
TO offer tribute 10 the powers of delay
and evasion of Oriental diplomacy as
practiced by tho Turkish government.
Statements are constantly retiterat ted of
the continued accord OF the powers on
the subject and their unyielding deter
mination to insist upon a compliance
with their demands. Less Is heard OF
the rumors which were Of frequent oc-
currencs in the early perioI after the
demand had been presented, that the
sultan had at lenght decided to grant the
necessary iirmans to permit the passage
Of the DArdanclles, or even that be had
acually issued them. Neither Is there
such explicit announcement any more of
the psrioi which is to elapse before a
movement OF the powers to com ence to
enfocre tho demands made upon the sui
tan. Since the return OF III. NJ. Dryad to
Salonica bay no word has bsen heard Of
any actual order or movement to ad-
vance upon tue Dardanelles. Opinion
continues divideu rs 10 whether the de-
lay in taking any action to enforce tue
demands Is due to the fear of causing
afanatiCal outbreak against the Chris
tiAns ny the Mussulman subjects of the
sultan or to dread of O crash ensuing
between the powers them selves. The
reception today by the sultan OF NJ.
Nieldorf, the Ruscian am bassador, in
privatej ience awakens the unanimous
speculation as TO the true relations of
Russia TO the situation and the extent
of her agreement with the views of the
powe's.
The flight of Said Pasha and his refuge
in the British embassy are subjects of
the most sensational interest, and the
most frantic efforts made by the sdltan
to in luce him 10 leave and return to the
Iildiz palace indicates his fear that he
has lost the most powerful Intermediary
that he could hope for between hims If
and the powers in ovading the uncom
Portable demands they make upon him,
Or the must dangerous adversary he could
fear, having bsen in counsel W Ith the
powers.
That the sultan lives in a state OF con-
stan. apprehension OF hisslifs was indi-
Cdtcu uIo ooncuuOF ouliuS sbO COuISc
of the ceremony of the SoIamik on Fri
dav. which involved the departure of the
sultan from the walls of the palace and
his appearance in public for sort of re-
view of troops attended by many high
officials followed by prayers at the
mosque. On Friday as the sultan was
quitting the mosque a man nttired as a
Turk, bearing petition. forced MIN self
through the soldiers to the sultan IS car
riage. The sultan was seen to become
much agitated ana deathly palp. but the
man was promptly arrested and hustled
off to prison without having accom-.
llished any harm to the sultan.
Explicit instructions were again re
ceived today by all the ambassadors to
insist on the admission OF the guard
ships but as has been stated, without
any cnange in the situation.
SO rerssten, has been the pressure on
Said Pasha to leave the British embassy
ana CrOn the EN- bassy to relinquish him
that all palace officials are now excluded
from there except one OF the palace
sheiks, whom the sultan has sent and
who vainly tried to induce Said Pasha
to return to the sultan. The sultan has
protested to the powers against the ex-
Cluson of his messengers, tut other am
bassadors support Sir Philip Currie in
MS position. The report that they ad-
wise Said Pasha to again accept the po-
Sltlon OF kranu ViDIer ms pToVeu W Je
unfoundcd.
Authentic details have been received of
the Sivas massacre. They show the slaugh-
ter began on November 18th and continued
for q week. 1t is known 1900 Armenians
and ten Turks were killed before there
was II cessationof the bloody worE.
The manner Of the outbreak is de-
scribcd as follows: Suddenly at noon as
if by a precOncerted signal the Turkish
4: oldiers and pulice, the Circassains and
even the laborers and Moslem women and
children, rushed into the marset under
command of she officers. All were
arme ed, the laborers with tools or clubs or
be used an offensive weapon.
They attacked and looted the Arme-
hian shops and pursued with. fury the
ileeing Armenians. Many merchants and
clerks were killed and their bodies
stripped. AS the importing business
the Armenians. financial disaster must
overtake Siavs when the fury of blood
and greed has subsided.
The stricken Armenans slowly gath
cred the mnngled remains of their kins-
men and buried them IN a trench in the
cemetery.
The Armenian villages in the vicinity
were also looted and the people left to
beg and die. The winter will bring ter
rlble suffering to all the living victims
OF the outrages.
A high official, in q position to know,
declares tho massacrcs were the dcliher-
ate act Of the sultah's vengeance for hav-
ig been copmclled to grant the reforms
in Armenia demanded by the powers,
A few Of the Turkish shops we're at
tackled to afford o. text on which to ac-
cuse the Armenians of having started the
disorder.
1t is asserted the kaimakan of Guerlp,
where there are 5000 Armenians, tcle-
graphed to the vail of Siavs:
lyon may rest assured there is not an
Armenian left in Guerin. They resisted
the butchers and they have suffered for
il -
The expulsion and removal of the Ar
,nenians from Constantinope and from
the viIayets continues by wholesale. All
the Armenian m0nasteries in the vicinity
of Erziugjan have been pillaged. The
massacre there occurred after the Arme-
mans had been disarmed and Zokki
Pasha had faithfully PROMISED to protect
them
At the village Of Pasuan, near Erzing-
ian, the kurds and Turks attacked
crowd of Armenans who had taken
refnge in an Armenian church and killed
forty Uf them. -Four hundred werc killed