The San Francisco call., 1895-11-13
No Time for Diplomatic Courtesies
While the Slaughter of
ArmenianS Goes On.
TEN THOUSAND MAssACRED.
From Various Parts of Asia Minor
Come Stories of Shocking Acts
of Brutality.

CONSTANTINOPLE,T TURKEY, Nov. u.
United States Minister Terrill sent note
to Halrifil Pasha, the new Grand Vizier,
on Monday, in which he said that in view
of the position he was unable to make
congratulatory call upon the occasion of
the Pasha's appointment to his office. He
was compelled to lay diplomatic usage
aside, he SAID, in order to first demand
protection for Americans in Asia Minor,
and proposed to call upon the Grand Vizier
for that purpose on Tuesday.
Missionaries Herrick, Peet and Dwight
have made an earnest appeal to the
United States for aid for the oesti-
tute. It is estimated that 25OOOO Ar
menians in the ravaged districts are in
state of starvation. Minister Terrill ex-
presses the opinion that upward of 10000
Armenians have been massacred during
the last thirty days, and fears that the
worst of the outrages have not been re-
ported. Mr.. Terrill cordially indorses the
missionaries appeal for aid.
Additional arrests were made yesterday
and to-day, and there have been fresh
massacres in the neigh borhood of Angora
and Paluin, in which disturbances, it is re-
ported, 1000 persons were slain. The
Marblehead remains anchored opposite
the Imperial Palace, with steam up.
Notwithstanding the fatal difficulties
under which the Government labors the
Porte not having sufficient money where
with to meet expenses thus far entailed by
the calling out of the Redifs already under
arms, it has been decided to summon the
remaining twenty battaions belonging to
the Fourth Corps.
Official dispatches reiterate with some
detail the stories already told of the
troubles at Tchoukour, Hissar and Diarhe-
kir, but in all cases place the blame on the
Armenians, who are said to have risen
against the MOslems. The Vail of Adena
telegraphs that 1000 Armenians disguised
as Circassians have attacked the villages of
Zeitoun, Bell and Narl, committing all sorts
of depredations.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 1.-THE
Turkish legation here has received from
the Porte the following telegram under
yesterdays date: 'The Armenian rioters
OF Zonton attacked the village of Hissar,
killing thirty-fve Mussulmans, and car
ried away with them arms and cattle and
belongings of the Mussulman villages of
Dennghel and murdered the secretary of
the tax collector of Zeitoun. The wife
and four children of the functionary are
missing. According to fresh advices from
Diarbekir, the Armenians are alone re-
sponsible for the recent disorders, which
originated solely by the rebels firing on
the mosques at the hour of prayer and by
their making an armed attack on the Mus
sulmans."
The fire which broke out at Diarbekir
was started by Armenian incendiarles, for
80 per cent of the shops destroyed, as also
about all the merchandise burned, belonged
to Mussulmans. All assertions contrary
to the above ARE propagated by the Ar
menian committees and their friends to
misguide and deceive public opinion. The
Vail of Adana reports that about 200 Ar
menians. disguised as Circassians, attacked
the Mussulman villages of Zeitounberts
and Narli, committing all sorts of depre-
datiOnS