The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-05-30
Tales of Want and Misery From
Armenia's Borders.
AN UPRISING is IMMINENT
mamie Compelled by Their Prosecutors
10 Eat the Bodies OF Their
own Children.


an unusuai oppoi
additional conilrfnatloh ol the iacts coh-
tanned in my announcement OF the I'M
nending uprising of the Armenians in
turkey next month. 1 have travelled
many miles in search of certain facts
ond as a result have had the satisfac-
tion of actually seeing and handling
some of the rifles now being smuggled
across the Turkish frontier by agents
of the revolutionary party. Moreover,
tbe plans of the party have been fully
exnlained to me by some of the most
active and intelligent of the leaders of
tbe eastern wing of the movement, and
am now informed that unless unfore-
eeen circumstances arise, the uprising
will take place as announced The ex-
act date for it has not yet been fixed.
owing, for the most part, to the fact
that the extreme sectioh Oh tne reVoiu-
ton army parry Is NOT reauS loi actiVe
operations. Wne'nei VI hot 'he cen
tral sectioh VIII wait lor the eastern
wing longer thaii the month Oh May
DO not KNOW nor mas 'he matter ACTUAL
ly been decided 1 am asked 10 peheVe
that the eastern wing can not De mo-
bilized Tor hostlhtles IN May ana possi-
bly, not petore tne ISL OF jury
The eastern wing mas peen having
hard time OIL IL owing 10 circumstances
over whlch the leauers nave no control.
In the Irst place. the mountain passes
ieadlhs 10 van nave peen plockeu with
snow 1or mohths, so that only special
messengers IolioWlhg the regular routes
OIL traVel coulu get through, ana there-
lore II was linposslple TO follow with
guns ana ammunition from Russia and
PERSIA 10 the dlstrlct ABOUT Lake van.
Ihere are now guns on the poruer
a"a,'l"s 1,' - a1spoi ', "a 'ioil iato Aiineiiia
tba eastern end of Tprlrev ora Il, a CON
dit,on bordering o,, stor,,atior Tt is
obvious that the naon1e IN tbis condi-
tion can nor figb+
'Nih4NiA " LII fl,'f1i
oh thls point leadlng executive OF
me reVolutlon army party SAID TO me
three Gays ago: III men nave nothing
IN their stomachs what VIII they DO!
we must nrst reed them before we can
expect them to nght. When we can get
ioou enough on mana TO last them TWO
months, then we snail snow the world
now Armenians can hght.
IL is this question OF 1000 that the
evolutionary leaders VIII ma most dill
hcuit Oh solution. Inc problem OF SNUG
snhg guns INTO Armenia Will De solved
WIN the coming spring, which Is now
Just beginning to be felt in the lower
Valleys. 1t Is plain that II no food Is TO
De mad the people can not be fed, no
matter now much money they may
nave, and II is fact that In the eastern
poruoh OF Armenia FOOD Is SO scarce that
'he well-to-do and the rich have no
more food than they actually need.
CROPS DESTROYED.
Few crons vere grown last summer
owing to the fact tbat many Of the
farmers and cnltivators we've thrown
into nrison bv tbe Turks on charges of
ravoIutio,, "a ao.,r1;,,o,, rha;s 90
tie were s+o1an bv the I<rrds and what
the moor neon1e had left in the wav of
provisions or nronertv was seized nv
the government officials for taxes There
will be no crons nlanted in eastern Ar
menia this snring for the country ey-
erywhere is suffering from a reign of
terror. The presence of the commission
Of INQUIRY at Moosb and of the Christian
powers of F,,1rone have had absolutely
no effect on the conduct of either the
Turks or Kurds in eastern Turkey. I
am lust in recent of Trustworthy ad-
vices from an Armenian source at Van
to the effect that a massacre is looked
for at any moment.
1t is a fact which the British govern
ment can verify by consulting the re-
port of Mr.. Patton, an official of the
British consulate at Tebraiz, Persia,
that in several cases the Turkish Of
1icials in the devastated districts of
Armenia tried hard to save Armenians
from death, and their property from de-
uueuoh, put Wneh 'hey protes.eu
4s oiist tne Ilurueious iaius y, INC
dps, tne oiiicers reau " .ns,i 'i'e -,
he VI ehe sul'ah' anu ~ no'hiiiis oouiu
hr,n i fattoh mas iateiy retuiiieu " &c
Iiohi an liVestisa'ins 'oui ahiOns
,1 lah refugees aioils 'he poi uei pe
rersia ana turkey. ne iouiiu
80 VI refugees from lne A-ahe an
S iiu doosh dlstrlcts' put not one from
o Ihere are no oassouii sulvN
NJ Ouraihla' odiiiis' Di'illiahi, hiioi
CO vi any other piace III ei sia, aiiu
:. o" III RUSSIA that lney are uiiiioui'
HAu' Ihls absence ol oassoulis
d,s 81 many refugees Iroih lie o'nei
~ ol eastern Arineiia sueses
tbo.s u'eluiul possipiilty 'nd' ne" %