Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-15
RIOT AT M Al SOW A N
Minister Terrelps Report as to the Arme-
nian Revolutionists.
Sixteen Persons Notified That They
Would Be Assassinated-ThOxe
Who Have Been Killed,

In connection with recent press kilograms
relating to riot at Marsovan, in which
some American missionaries are said to
have been injured, Minister Terrelrs report
of July 25 to the State Department relat-
ing to the Armenian revolutionists at that
place is of great interest.
1t appears that on July ] an Armenian
ramed Garabed was assass;nated at Marso-
van, close to the chui ch door, as he was
going to attend early service. He was the
chief man of the Protestant community
and chairman of the council of thirty,
who are responsible for the peace of the
city. 1t was alleged that he had given the
government Information In regard to the
revolutionists. Consul Jewett, in reporting
this case July IL to Consul General Short
at Constantinople, says that numerous
Armenians were arrested, 1t was said
there was little doubt that Garabed was
murdered by them. Among those arrested
was naturalized American citizen, who
had been student at the American Col
lege at Marsovan, but who, as Mr.. Jewett
was informed. had been dropped from the
rolls some months before.
Steps to Insure Fair Treatment.
Minister Terrell was promptly informed
concerning the assassination, and the i'm
prfsoi ments which followed IT, and took
immediate steps to insure fair treatment
of the naturalized citizen, and called upon
Mr.. Jewett for any trustworthy informa-
ton he might have regarding the danger
to the missionary teachers at Marsovan
from Armenian revolutionistS, by reason
of threats to assassinate them, and also
the precautionary measures for their pro-
lection afforded or rendered by the local
Turkish authorities. He informed Mr.. Jew
EFT that though Turkey has a right to eX-
pei undesirable classes of people from her
territory, she has no right to treat the ac-
quired American citizenship of any OF them
as an ofense, and to imprison them for
that cause, nor to imprison them on mere
suspicion. He instructed him in such cases
promptly to demand their release, and that
If any of them are arrested while engaged
in armed resistance to the government to
demand a fair trial.
Mr. Terrelrs report Of the troubles at
Marsovan Is based upon a verbal statement
of Mr.. Dwight, leading American mis-
sionary at Constantinople, and is as fol-
lows:
Minister TerreIrs Report.
More than year ago sixteen persons at
Marsovan received written notice that they
would be killed unless they would cooper
ate with the Armenian revolutionists.
President Tracy and Prof. Riggs of Mar
sovan College wcle two of these. They
had incurred the i'll will Of the revolution
lists by refusing to receive in the college
the sons of certain men suspected of be-
ing revolutionists. Garabed, who was as
sassinated, was another of the sixteen who
received notice. and Mr.. Dwight has been
informed that still another has been assas-
sinated. A Turkish guard was furnished
at The request of Mr.. Terrell to protect the
American families from the assassins. Mr..
Dwight considers this guard sufficient to
protect the missionaries at the college, and
Mr. Terrell has not applied for an addi-
tional force. The local governor informed
the Armenfens after the killing that he in
imprison them until they revealed the
names of the guilty ones; that their OBJ
ject was to provoke Turkish vengeance in
order to secure the sympathy and inter-
vention of Christian Europe. but that they
would not succeed, as he had caused to be
preached IN the mosques for months that
such was their object, and that any Turk
who killed Christian would be the worst
enemy of Islam.
Mr.. Terrell adds that the revolutionists
at Marsovan had organized and marked
the American professors long before the
Sassoun atrocities.