The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-07
AID FOR ARMEN|ANS,
England Insists Upon
Quick Reforms in
Turkey.
THROWN INTO THE SEA.
The Sultan'S Bulldogs Hiding
the Bodies of Those
Slain.
SLAUGHTERED BY MUssULMEN
TWentyOne Victims Added to the
List-Said Pasha Again
in Power.

CONSTANTINOPLE,T TURKEY, Oct. g.
Said Pasha, formerly Grand Vizier, or
Prime Minister, who was removed to make
room for Kianlil Pasha, has been ap-
pointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, the
made Grand Vizier, Turkham Pasha retir-
ing from the post.
Sir Philip Currie, the British Embassa-
dor, has visited Kiamil Pasha and urged
upon him the necessity of reassuring the
Armenians by stopping the arrests of per-
sons suspected of completely in the recent
rioting. 1t is said that Kiamil Pasha will
advise the Sultan to grant amnesty to all
the Armenians arrested since September 80
Six foreign diplomats met on Friday
resolved on sending collective note to the
Porte. They ordered their respective
guard ships to make their winter moorings
in the harbor in order to be in readiness to
protect foreigners.
ambassador Currie has asked the Porte
for permission to instruct Secretary Sister
to visit the prisons where the Armenians
are in custody.
Eight persons were reg istered as having
been killed on Monday and Tuesday last.
None of the bodies of those killed in the
Kasmin quarter have been recovered. 1t
is known that the bodies of many of those
who lost their lives during the riots were
thrown into the sea. So far as known only
Major Serwet Bey and two subalterns were
killed on the Turkish side during the riot
ing on September 80. A few gendarmes
were wounded. The Mussulman laborers
in the Peragas works killed twenty-one of
their Armenian comrades on the night of
October 8.
The refugees in the church remained
there yesterday and their number is in
creasing. A hundred women and children
took refuge in the garden of the British
Embassy, which goes to prove that al
though quietness prevails in the city the
Armenians are apprehensive that further
attacks will be made upon them.
The Armenian Pa triarch has written to
the representatives of the powers urging
them to use tn cir authority to restore or
der. He declares that men disguised as
Softas, Mohammedan theological students,
began the attack on the Armenians. He
gives the names of 400 Armenians who
have been reported at the Patriarchate as
missing.
When Sir Philip Currie visited KiamiI
Pasha on Saturday he insisted in vigorous
terms on the absolute necessity of the
Porte accepting the scheme of reforms
submitted by Great Britain, France and
Russia on May II, and upon the immediate
publication throughout the empire of a
decree proclaiming the fact that the Gov
ernment had accepted the scheme. He ina
formed the Grand Vizier that the British
Prime Minister had not the slightest in
tention of abating his demands of prin-
ciple, whatever notifications he might
admit in the reform scheme as presented.
The events of the..:week, Sir Philip said,
had shown the intolerabIc consequence of
a delay that could no longer be permitted.
At the same time that the ambassador
was visiting the Grand Vizier the drago-
man of the British Embassy, acting under
Sir Philips orders, visited the Patriarchate
to express sympathy with the Armenians
and to explain the action that had been
taken by the powers.
Sir Philips insistence upon the prompt
acceptance of the scheme throws much
doubt upon the correctness of the reports
that have reached here from London to
the effect that the Salisbury Government
would recede from its position of demand
ing protection for the Armenians and a
radical reform in the administrative meth
DDS in Armenia. 1t is generally believed
here now that notwithstanding the alleged