The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-18
THEY'RE A CUNNING LOT
Are These AFmsnIals, Who Propose to
Raid COnsiantinople.
PLENTY OF RIFLES HIDDEN
Will Sacrifice Lives in the Hope
That the Great Powers VIII
Intervene-lt is Cold Tur-
key They Want.

copyrighted 1906 by the Associated Press.1
LONDON. April 1.-THE correspondent
of the associated press, writing from
Armenia under date of March IL. says:
Il have travelled many hundreds of
miles in Russia and Persia and have
visited Armenian colonies as far east as
the Caspian, and as far south as the city
of Teheran and have learned. after the
most careful investigation and verifica-
ton of the facts, that the Armenian ques-
ton will soon reach an acute and painful
crisis. In fact Armenia Is preparing for
war. The revolutionary party has now
both money and guns. During the past
eight weeks money has poured into the
revolutionary treasury i'm a steady stream
from the Armenian colonies.
THE central idea of the plan of cam
paign is a general uprising of Armenians
throughout the Turkish empire some time
during the month of May. The leaders
have promised the people in the eastern
part OF Armenia that the chief attack Will
be made in the city of Constantinople it
self and that the brunt of the fighting
will be done by the Armenian residents
therein. The Armenians have at least
1900 Martin-Henry rifles hidden in secret
places In the mountains. For handful
of unframed Armenians to delib-
erately begin fight with
the 10000 regular troops of the
Turkish empire would seem to be a folly
too colossal for human conception; yet
the purpose Is not to bring Turkey TO
terms in a fair fight, but to settle the
quarrel by Intervention of the European
powers. Before the revolution Is three
mon this old the powers, II is believed, will
be compelled to take hand in the con-
| fiict, for the cruelty, atrocity, the outrage,
| tho bIood-lust and butchery OF the strug-
| gle will be so unthinkably horrible that
Christian humanity will interfere.
"To what extent the plans OF the revo-
lutionary leaders are approved by the
Armenian people at large, 1t Is difficult to
tell. l seriously doubt IL those plans are
known In detail to more than per cent.
| of the Armenians. Still there are genu-
inc patriots who believe that to free Ar
menia from the dreadful depth to which
she is sunk, they must surrender some OF
their fellow countrymen to torture, out
rage and death. .,,------
where is belief in Europe that Russia
desires to make the Armenians Russian
subjects by annexing the eastern end oi
| Turkey. Curiously enough this belief Is
not shared by the Russians of the Cau-
casian region. The Georgians GER
tainly would resent any further
increase In the Armenian population.
| The business methods of the Armenians
are not generally approved by Georgians
and Russians. Il is therefore believed
unlikely that Russia wants the Armeni'
ans, but whether or not she wants the
| Turkish territory which the Armenians
inhabit is quite another matter. For the
most part the average Armenian Is anx.
ious to have some other man fight his
battles and he Is willing to believe Eng
land and Russia are only waiting for a
chance to come in and dismember the
| Turkish empire"