The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-01
TURKEYS SULTAN A MONSTER.
POPULAR WRATH AGAINST HIM IN
CREASING IN ENGLAND.

The Conviction Growing That He Is
JOckeying With the Powers While
Carrying on His Work of Exter-
mination Against the AFmenians.
Ten thousand Relieved TO Have
Been Massacred Between Nov. Is
and -.
London. Nov. 3o.-Neither the assent OF
the sultan TO each of the powers having
second guard ship at Constantinople
nor the PRONUNCIATION of paper reforms
viii quiet the rising public wrath over
the progress Of his policy Of extermina-
ton directed against the Christians CT
Asia Minor. The clamor for strong and
decisive dealing with the sultan comes
from conservatives and liberals alike.
The popular conviction grows that Abdul
Hamid is jockeying with the powers and
that the palace clique. TO whom his OBJ
stinacies and dupllcity are attributed,
agreed with, but do not rule him.
The Speakers Constantnople cores
pondent, who first directed attention 10
the Armenian outrages, has since be-
come recognized authority on the sub
ject. He declares that he has ample evi-
dence that the sultan IS personally re-
sponsible for the whole series Of massa-
cres. He explains that the late outrages
commenced as soon as the sultan ac-
cepted the reforms applying 10 six villa
vets, giving Christians rights that de-
pended on their numbers. The massacrea
have been chiefly confined to these villa
vets. the object being to 50
reduce the number Of Christians as to give
them no claim to any influence The work
of determination proceeds as systemat-
ically as it is possible for the Turkish au-
fhfnf %.
and the troops are acting under the orr
ders Of the authorities in their work OF
pilage, rapine and murder The corre-
spondent estimates that 10000 persons
were massacred between Nov IS and 25,
while the sultan was posing before Eu-
rope as being desirous of effecting re-
forms, and as being benevolently inclin-
ed towards the Armenians.
Commenting upon the matter furnished
by its correspondent. the Speaker says
that among the brutal murderers who are
engaged I'm wiping out the Armenians
there is not one who is so brutal and crim-
inal as this wretch. Abdul Hamld, whoss
very existence is a reproach to humanity.
Can the civilized world, the paper asks.
look with no stronger feeling than tepld
disapproval while the monster who owes
his power to the protection of Great Brit
ain, consummates a crime that Is almost
without pafdlielE
Constantinople, NNov. SO-The situation
here shows very little change. The cabinets
of the powers have not yet reached a de-
cision as to what action they shall take
IN regard TO the refusal Of the porte to
issue hrmans permitting the doubling OF
the foreign guardships in the Bosphorus.
A refusal on the part of the sultan TO
carry out the promises he made the other
day, through Tewfk Pasha, the Turkish
foreign minister. would be regarded by
the ambassadors here as an act demand
ing prompt and severe resentment but
as the matter has been submitted to their
respective governments. the diplomats are
not free to act in accordance with their
strong desires, which rather impel them
to order the entrance Of their additional
which Sir Philip Currie requested Admiral
meantime the British gunboat Dryad,
which Sir Philip Currie requested admiral
Seymour to detach from the Mediterra-
mean squadron and send 70 Constantinople
after Tewfk Pasha's assurance that the
sultan would issue the required permit
for her passage through the Dardanelles,
has re1oined the British squadron at Sa-
lonica. The Dryad had arrived at point
near the western entrance of the Darda-
nelleM and was awastlhg Instructions
there as to her movementS.T
Rome Nov. 9O.-The allocution pronounc.
cd by the pope at the consstory yester-
day Is published to-day. In his aliusions
to the situation in the east his holiness
deplores the horrors which have been, and
praises the conduct of the six great pow
ers in their interference and insistahce
upon the restoration OF order.
Vienna, Nov. 3O.-The Politische corre-
spondenz has received information to the
effect that the entire Armenian popula-
tton OF Baiburt. sixty-fve miles northwest
OF brzeroum and kurahissari about Fifty
miles south of Dlarbekr, have been
massacred by Lazes Kurds. The Turkish
population Of Tamsara Joined the Kurds
in massacreing the Armenians of that
place, killing men, women and children
Kalamazoo, Mich, Nov 3O.-Chairman
James w. Osborne OF the mass meeting
held here recently on the Armenian ques-
ton, has received the following reply
from Secretary of State Olney to the res.
olutions which were forwarded to him:
Sir-I received the copy of the resolu-
tions adopted at meeting of the citizens
of Kalamazoo, Mich, held at the First
Congregational church. in regard to the
Armenian question. 1t gives me pleasure
10 say that this government is taking
every possible means through the earnest
demands Of the United States minister
at Constantinople, Alexander w Terrell
and through the presence of our war ves-
sells in Turkish waters, to insure the full
filment by the porte of the repeated guar
anteees 1t has made respecting the per-
sonal security of American citizens re-
siding in Asia Minor, and in every other
quarter OF the empire, where disturbance
Is, or may be apprehended. | am, sir,
your obedient servant, Richard Olney."
Jefferson City. No. Nov. S0.-Rev. ]. T..
NJ. johnson, the Baptist preacher whose
statements regarding United States Min
lister Terrell have created considerable
criticism, has given the following letter
to the press:
Last Sunday evening delivered a lee
ture in my church in this city on the
Armenian question in which / referred
10 the unfayorable reports 1 had heard of
Minister Terrell during my recent seven
weeks Of travel through Turkish donin-
ions. To-day l received a copy of a New
York paper in which am quoted as say
ing that Mr.. Terrell has Joined the Mo-
hammedan church, and that he is aiding
in the prosecutions and killing of Christ
ians; that Mr.. Terrell prevents true re-
ports from being sent out and is sending
out false reports himself
"All Of these statements are false
did say that Minister Terrell was in svm-
pathy with the Turkish government. and
everywhere we went the American consuls
and missionaries told US the same story
What said in my lecture about Minister
Terrell is embodied in a petition gotten
up by the party of American tourists. Of
whom l was one, which petition was
forwarded to Secretary of State Olney.
and set forth the facts on which Mr.. Ter
rells removal was requested. This petit
tion was signed by the entire party. which
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