Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-12-16
1BLEGRAPHIC.
EASTERN SITUATION.
,,-,,i,n Villages Sacked and Inc
Inhabitants Mastered
.r,,pnpes or 1nE PEOPLE
ya-o,eau Powers No Longer Act
Tag in COncer'--Rus'ia the
dominating Power

cossrAxriNorLr, Dec. H. via Sofa
r',,,o,io, d c. l5.--rhs French sua'd'
bl'ss r,ncon has arrived here, In &C.
'l'p ,.,r. with tue permission granted
9. ,sssulian upon the demand OF the
W w.. and has joined the English
Insost Dryad, the Italian war weasel
httmsle and tho Austrian gunhoat
s Int, which arrived during the
week. ,,..,,,r.,,s
..,,,,ed upon Armeniaus In the
,r,ba mast ore seen Ia the hdvice'
b,inp received from Aptloia,
~, dwell upon the terrible uWire1,
nni..,,rg everywhere, A ihouaahu
s.-t,iyss nave taken refuge Ia SLACK
.snorlg. where they remain ~ ut-
s,sbie condition. TIE hurus cor
49, +, tliiare the Armenian Vlllogcs
ul ,n,,t epposltion ffam the Inhabitants
sror, he authorities. During tue
70 - wsess 100 villagca have been
l ~ ,pd seventy men killed. Ihe
liv.,y nj serai, uazifa, Bahakcssvn
,be Arnirnian district Of hnlaalaoI
~. neon laid wartc. g The village OF
E1,.sguird mas been faided i0pr timeH
a. enc week.. The authorities inside
.tt.uipt whatever 10 pul stop 70
,s, Kurdlsh raids or TO punish tue
s,ret,,tors OF them. Itis feared that
issintabiiants Of numhufs OF Villages
,sha nave led through fear OF second
ent,aee. and have taken rouge AZ
,,sIsrcssilblo uoiuis Ia Che mountalns
Iii nefish during tue severe weather
~ winter which Is now coming.
Ths rmenians arc held IN "a state OF
utter despair ever their siiuauon'
ISLAM Or DEATH
rospoy. Dee. i0-TAs Daily Newa
he Jtspntch from Countnutinoplc,
asisd Dresmber lilb, which sayt;
News daily received here " thou-
ssngs NJ Afnisnians who are ohsrod
liz choice between ISLAM OF dcnih, At
We,ash An Armenian who wna OF
Gained an Anglican Clergyman refused
1he choice, anu was killed by slow tor
mre AZ Karput two Pfolestants
rfoaehod and were murdered for the
,,me cause. At Achem iity.two per-
tana died aa Martyrs Tor thoir religion
AZ Ozoon a large number OF Ar
r,sniapn wero captured aud led 70 q
n,lghborlug Turkish village, where
ihey we're ordered 10 change their
ain, FIFTY Of them leantd into this
Fuphrntea and were urOwne1i the
Turk shooting thom while they were
10 the water.
This day the BriiiSh vice consul 81
Van describes this condition OF tue At
uenians az being too appalling loi
words, Thousands OF women and glrli
are wandering through tho snow.pilod
directs without shelter or food and bare
f,ut. having como VI them only a cloth
10 cover their nakedneas.
TIE Zsltoun tragedy is approaching
m enc, A. tho Selamlik yeslerdny
thesultanis q dietary Informed Euro
faaus that this Zsitounlis committed .
honiblo outrage; that they had dec
csndei en- massr from the hills, hal
burned the M1alem village Of hattli
aud killed every inhabiiant. This h
no Invented ~ IaGSt Bvy, tho olevcl
Arabic fcoundrci who now ruluB Tn
sultan gnd empire. Ho maintains hi
power by wandering TO lhe rullan'
ihlrsl Tor Armenian blood. Every
body Ia aware that Zeitoun was sur
Rounded by tIoopl ana balni-blz7ukf
ana that such Hurt.o was impossible
The otlcc. OF Tao ialaahooi 10 ~ allen
ate sympathy from the Armonian'
Tlh moauB tsgt the doom VI IN
Zsllounlis Il sealed. The sultan mean
TO stizs IN excuse to order ihoir OK
elimination.
THE EUROPEAN CONCERT.
foNno,s Dpr. Ia The Daily Nav
(lbersD, commenting on tho al
nouncsmont that Lord Saliabury h'
defined NJ present, In tho public late
est, 10 receive dspulaiion Ia behalf
the Armrnians, sgyG "rhis must mos
inst the Europonn concert exists onl
In name, and that tho powers are
prepared % cooperate In the dol
ton Of the sultan or in enforcing El
f0poan control. Russia Is the pow
most closely interested, and the ca
count upon the support Of France.
THE be no, tho situation is more sorio'
than nwar %