The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-29
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ASIA MINOR AGAIN IN ALARM.
SIARAsH THE SCENE or 4 SECOND
TERRIBLE MASSACRE.

AhouAHhuS reported AAlleu ana
Many Hundreds Wounded - The
American Theological Seminary
Among the buildings Piuaged ana
Burned-Twenty Thousand Turkish
Troops Reported Marching on Zei-
tOun for the Purpose or Rnzing lie
to the Ground.
ConstantinopIe Nov. 2.-The Italian
dispatch boat Archimede has arrived at
the entrance of the Dardanelles. She
has not been allowed to pass in and is
awaiting instructions Of the Italian gov
ernment
Despite the assurance given to Sir PHIL
lip Currie. the British ambassador, by
Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish minister Of
foreign affairs, that each power would be
permitted to send an additional guard
ship to the Bosphorus. the sultan has not
yet granted the requisite permits for their
entrance through the Dardanelles The
hesitancy of the sultan in the matter, 10
IS understood, is due to his fear that the
movement OF the powers to increase the
number of their guardships in the Bos-
phorus is merely designed to mask an
Interior demonstration of the naval force.
It is thought, however, that the sultan
VIII yield to the demands of the powers
Att view VI the unanimous pressure they
are bringing upon him, otherwise II is
probable that the powers will send gun
boats into the Bosphorus without waiting
any longer for the sultan to issue fir-
mans permitting them to enter
A terrible second massacre has occurred
al Marash, and the houses there have been
plllaged without regard to who their Oc-
cupants might be. 1t is reported that
thousands were killed and many hundreds
wounded. The American Theological Sem
mary was plundered and burned, and two
OF the students at that institution were
SHOT both being fatally wounded. The
hotels and boarding houses were also
plundered. The Christians at Marash and
in that vicinity, thousands Of whom ara
destitute have appealed for aid.
A dispatch received in Constantinople,
from Aleppo, under Mondays date, says
an outbreak is apprehended al Van, and
reliable kilograms from other sources say
that outbreaks continue with the purpose
of wiping out the Armenians. it is inn
possible to rely for aid from Sassoun.
these advices state the relief work there
having ceased. The Kurds are again at
tacktng the people, under the belief that
they are acting under orders from the
government.
News has been received from zeitoun
that on Nov. 13, force of 1900 Arme-
mans, under a Russo-Armenian leader
captured the fort occupied by Turkish
troops. In the attack upon the fort
dynamite was used by the Armenans
with great effect. Twenty thousand Turk
ish troops are said to be advancing upon
Zeitoun from all sides, it being the inten-
tion, 1t is understood, to raze that place
to the ground.
Rumors are in circulation in Constan-
tinople that dreadful massacre occurred
at Aintab on Nov IL.
The government has prohibited all tele-
graph communication with that place, so
1t Is impossible to get any information in
regard 10 the reported massacre.
M. Neidon, the Russian ambassador to
Turkey, has had an audience with the
sultan, during which he warned him that
II serious disturbances should occur at
Cohstanunople the foreign fleets would
penetrate the Dardanelles The sultan
admitted to M. Neldoff that the powers
had a right to the admission of a sec
ond guard ship to the Bosphorus but re-
neWed his request that they should not
insist upon that right. He urged that the
promised reforms were progressing, and
that the approach of an era of reform
was shown by the appointment of nine in
speeting judges OF whom three were
Despite the assurances of the sultan to
the contrary, the arresting of Armenians
in Constantinople has been renewed,
or resistance TO the laws on the part OF
the Armenians in Cons tantinople. Thou
sands of them, however are reported to
have been frightened into conversion to
Moslemism
Costald Enend Anthopoulos has been
designated as Turkish ambassador to
great Britain IN succession to the late
Rustem Pasha.
London, Nov 2S-The Times to-mor-
row viii publish a dispatch from Constan-
tlnople which ascribes the delay in Is
suing firmans for the admission into the
Bosphorus of a second guardship of each
of the powers to Izzett Bey in whose
hands the sultan has placed himself. L.
zett will try by every trick to pull his pa
tron through his difficulty. He relies on
the tragillty of the European concert and
believes that by stqaining the agrees
ment he can divide the powers and re-
store political bliss in the empire. Tho
FINES correspondent says he believes that
the embassies are aware of the designs
and that the knowledge that Izzett is
working the affair stiffens the ministers
q ffae1t
ed. Izzett is detested in official and court
circles, the members of which are intense
ly jealous of him.
The Standard will tomorrow publish a
dispatch from Constantinople saying that
the Yildez palace is now the center Of
cOmplicate intrigues which defy descrip-
ton Ministers, office seekers and nonde-
script politicians of all kinds throng the
ante-chamber day and night. Numbers OF
high sounding orders are constantly sent
to the provinces. but there is little solid
than ever.
Rome, Nov 2S.-In the Chamber of Dem
uties to-day Baron Blanc, minister OF for
eign affasrE, read dispatches shCwinEs
Italy share in the European concert He
said he rejoiced at the satisfactory situa-
ttOn arising from the general accord of
the powers, bur regretted th3t trouble con-
tinued in the east owing to the relations
or the porte with the populations of Tur-
key. The porte, he added, had addressed
to Europe observations, if not reprOachae
on which it relied to allow things To
drag on even at the risk of aggraVatinar
the situation, but the porte would be mis-
taken il it though solution of the ques-
tion is found by a diplomatic discussion
of past affairs while Europe was face 10
face with atrocious deeds to a renewed
outbreak of which Europe could not al
low herself to be exposed. The porte
would he further mistaken if it added to
its peculiar responsibilities regarding the
disorders the further responsibility of en-
ploying If only in respect of the guard
ships the opportunity treaties have given
it, Of restraining naval protection of the
pacific interests of the powers. The for
eign minister's speech was greeted with
enthusiastic cheers.
RALFoTR SENTENCED.