The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-28
I'LL TIDINGs COME In
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That Armenlans Have Attacked MusslImen
AtOuslng Their Indignation
THIRTEEN THOUSAND ARAENIAhs KILLED
TWO ERundrcd Thousand stsuls, Three
-Fouril,s OF Whom Arc Women and
or Traders, Are Reduced 10 Abso-
Lutte Bloody aiassncTcs.

Constantinople, Nov. l5.-Thc follow
ing matter has been handed 10 the
european manager of the United
Press, now III Constuntinople. The
statement is endorsed by Minister Ter
rcll:
During the month Of October a con-
siderable part of the Armenian dis
trictS In the provinces of Trcbyzond.
trzcroum. Bills, Van, HSrpout, and
Sivns. has been laid waste and n MUM
Der not yet fully known of the Armenian
inhabitants have been killed by m&n
intent ON crushing into impotence the
Armenian race In Turkey. AS the NV
iul tidings have come In by driblets,
the Turkish government has diligently
telegraphed abroad In regard to each
cultivate the belief that there has
Mussumans. thus arousing n frenzy of
mdisna ton, which could not easily be
controlled, but that order had been
restored after some logs of life The
effect of these tclgrums has been to
cultivate the belief THAT there has
been some general rising of Armenians
calamity which is merely the result
OF lawlcss proceedings on the part of
the Arineni:lns themselves.
Natural indignation with the Arme-
mans for rising at the very moment
when the reform scheme was about to
hc put in operation, may be moderated
when ii is known that up to this date
III" ouiy authentic rising OF Armcnians
has taken place at Xeitoun In the prov
ince Of Alcppo and far from the scene
Of the massacrcs. Moreover. in such
eases az offer of opportunity for exam
ination, several circumstances cited in
the Turkish dispatches as causes Of
tho blopdshcd. have been proved TO
have been incidents and not causes of
the mussacrcs.
a statement describes specifically
the preparations, beginning In Septcm-
ber made by the MoslemS for the gene
October 30 and goes on to say that
only mengre returns have as yet
come In" but the total number or
deaths OF Arcmenlan Christians so fur
reported is l3,2G0.
The statement says:
II is not within the purpose of this
paper Ia enter upon the question of
the responsibility Of these massacrcs
mainly confined to the six provinces.
especially mentioned In the reform
scheme, so empty and painfully wrung
from the Porte. But II the object of
the orlginatnrs of this massacre were
scnsbly To diminish the Armenian pop
ulation of these provinces, the main
object Of the men who did the work was
plumber. Many thOusands who must
have pcrishcd, had the attack been a
blind outburst of fantical fury, cs-
capped because IL was an artificial move
inent. where cupidity was the chief mo-
tive used 10 induce men to engage in
II. and to the honor of the Turkish peo-
pie be IL said that in every one of the
places so far heard from in detail cases
occurred where MoSlemS sheltered Ar
mcnians and saved them from death
Near Trcbizond they saved an entire
village.
liut the very fact that plumber was
the chief interest with the men en-
gagged liz this crime. makes the position
OF the survivors most precarious because
of the Universal deStitution that has re-
suited To the victims.
y Very low estimate of the number
thus reduced 10 absolute want by thc
loss Gf all their moveable property Is
200. 900 souls. of whom three forrths are
the wives and children of the ruined
traders or farmers