The record-union., 1895-12-13

ters in Constant Attendance IN on
the Sultan, and Ominous Rum, 5
of All Kinds Flying Thick and Fast
No Repose or Rest for Anyone.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. 12.-Con-
/ stantinople is in a fearful state OF un-
rest. The place gives a stranger the
/ idea that the inhabitants are sitting
over a volcano. Something is going
to happen. 1t is in the air. One breathes
it and one feels it constantly. Fresh
stories of massacres come in every
morning, and the European inhabitants
greet each other with the inquiry
We'll, What is new?" What have YOU
heard?" Has anything been done?'
Did you hear what happened at the
palace last night?"
Ministers are in constant attendance
at the Yildiz upon the Sultan. and
ominous rumors of 9ll kinds are hying
thick and fast. There is no repose or
rest for anyone. In thehotels and pub
lie cafes, II waiter let's fall pile of
dishes, or some unusual clatter is made
! everyone starts with alarm One does
not really feel in fear Of bloodshed or
massacres in Constantinople, but il is
a nameless dread. 1t is fear of some
thing indefinite that seems to arouse
ones keenest suspicious People are
asking how long this condition of things
VIII continue Every Armenian with
whom you Ia Tx sneers at the impo-
| tence of the Powers, and asks if they
are waiting for all the Armenians to he
killed before interfering with the des-
potic power of the Sultan.
Almost every European resident
thinks that something will happen to-
morrow. Surely this condition of
things can last no longer. Surely
they say, I'VE will hear something de-
cisive tomorrow, and next Fridays
selamlik will be the last that Abdul
Hamid will see."
This constant tension is very weary
ing. 1t affects the temper and the spir-
its of everyone, and what little gaiety
there is in the city is dampened and
meets with no response.
The city waterworks are also run by
a foreign company, while the carrying
trade of the empire is almost entirely in
the hands of foreigners, Great Britain
having the major portion The local
carrying trade is chiefly managed bv
Greeks, and the only railway running
to Constantinople was built by Baron
Hirsch. 1t is owned chiefly in Vienna
/ anu dIlS. lie 1uIkS VINO nave the
/ pride of Turkey at heart point to this
and say that it is the result of the weak
/ policy of the Sultan in allowing the
/ country to be run by outsiders They
! consider it a lowering of Turkish dig
nifty, and almost every Turk who feels
this believes that were the present Sui
/ tan deposed matters would change. and
with proper kind of man al the palace
| Turkey would again assume her one
| time power and Importance. This is
/ the animuS of the young Turkey party
! Of course, those who understand the
matter know that no change of Sultan.
and no change of Ministry, would af-
feet this question. They know that Tur-
key is doomed country, as far as
Europe is concerned, and that she is
| simply dying slowly. These feelings
however, may carry the militant
Turks into a combination of force either
with Armenian or Russian cliques
which may cause a great deal of trouble
in Stamboul.
A CRY FOR HELP.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-The Turk
ish Legation received from the Sublime
Porte the following telegram under to-
days date:
''Fhe Armenians of Kalb (Bitlis) hav-
ing pretended that their belongings
were taken away during the various
| disorders by the Mussulmans, the i'm
which establishes the falsity of that as
sertion, as we'll as the fact that these
very Armenians had left to the care of
| their Muksuman neighbors all they
! possessed The latter have since res
| tituted the goods to their owners. The
! disorders of last month have clearly
shown that they never had a general
! character for neither the Greeks nor
| the Armenian Catholics had anything
| to suffer from the MussulmanS whose
| only object was to take revenge for the
| long planned aggressions of the Ar
menian rioters"
| NEWPORT OR. y, Dec. 12-Secre-
| tary Olney. in reply to Bedros Kazan-
jams query regarding his relatives in
Harpoot, Armenia, this morning wired
Mr.. Kazanjian that he was advised by
! the American Minister that the family
was well, but that their residence was
| plundered and that two servants had
| been killed. Mr.. KaZanjian's father
was one of the leading merchants of the
| place.
LONDON, Dec. 1.-THE following
| telegram from Constantinople, signed
by number of Armenians, has been
received: armenia is in her last gasp.
| The work of eXterminatioq continues
The massacred people number 10O,0O0
| The survivors have taken refuge in the
forests and mountains, feeding upon
herbs and roots. Hunger and cold
have begun to ravage them greatly In
the name of humanity and Christianity
save us"
A dispatch to the Times from Uru-
miah, Persia, says: 1t is now certain
that the Hamidieh cavalry have de-
stroyed 200 villages in the province OF
Van. Fifty thousand homeless people.
are focl1ing into the city of Van and
| the Government is doing nothing to
| prevent further outrages.
Vienna dispatch to the Times says
News was received from Trebizond to-
day of fresh atrocities. The Bishop
and five ecclesiastics were burned while
seeking refuge in a building. Fresh
outrages have occurred in other parts
of Asia Minor.
A dispatch to the Daily News from
Constantinople reports the arrest oy
Palace officials and the subsequent I'D
Grafton of the chief messenger OF the
I,..i+i..I, GO. is n Armenian.