The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-11
Armenians Claimed to Have
Been the AggreSSorS in
the MaSSacreS.
ATTACK UPON MUSSULMANs.
The Sultan's Efforts to Check the
Mob by Pacific Measures Were
Unavailing.

follows:
"Of the different projects that the Ar
menlan revolutionary committee contem-
plated, that of creating disturbances in
the capital of the empire is not the least
audacious. 1t was by causing the Sublime
Porte to be attacked by few thousand in
dIvlduals that the movement was to COM
mence. The police were informed in time
and naturally solicited the good offices of
the Armenian Patriarch to prevent the
outbreak. The Patriarch contented him.
self by declining all responsibility and de-
claring the impossibility of his acting in
the matter. Thus, their preventive means
having failed, the police were obliged to
take all sorts of measures, in view of the
events which were expected to take place
on Monday. September 30.
On the day aforementioned the leaders
of the revolutionary party, attended by
their followers to the number of some
10000, embed in the Armenian patri-
archal basilica. AT the completion of the
religious ceremonies the patriarch who
had attended the function, proceeded
to the patriarchal residence, attend
ed by several of the clergy and fol-
lowed by the multitude which had as
sembled in the church. A young girl who
stood near the patriarch gave the signal
for the breaking out of the mob, by max.
ing seditious speech. The bells of the
church were rung with unaccustomed
violence and shots were heard.
AT these signals the mob proceeded to
advance, its number being constantly aug
merted along the line of march. The
police agents, who encountered the rioters,
commanded in vain that they should dis
perse, and cause their pretended petition
to be properly presented and submitted Ivy
delegates, whom they might select from
their own number. They paid no heed to
their circumstances, and displayed their
poinards and revolvers, with which they
were armed, with the cry OF ''Hnrrab for
Armenia" and finally reached the Nouri
Osmani quarters and those of the Tavouk
Bazaar, where they fired upon the police
who commanded them to dispense. The
police acted in moderation, according to
their orders, and endeavored to dispense
the mob and arrest the ringleaders The
mob attacked irrespectively the police and
ihoffensive pedestrians crying loudly as
they did so to the Mussulmans that the
day of their destruction had at last
dawned.
Zone dead and several wounded among
the police and private individuals were the
victims of these madmen. The police
finally succeeded in dispensing them and
making number of arrests
"The leaders, no wever, managed to as
semble again in the patriarchal basilica
and were rejoined by number of their
followers. They continued the insurrec-
ton, insulting the Mussulmans of the
neighboring quarters and firing pistol
shots. Shots were fired from the Arme-
MAN patriarchal basilica itself and from at
least dozen houses inhabited by Arme-
mans.
SIN view of the obstinacy of the rioters
the Project of Police waited in person the
following day upon the Armenian patri-
arch at the patriarchal residence The
prelate, however, declined to receive him,
giving as an excuse pretended illness
and sent to receive him two members of
the council.
But, unfortunately, the ends of the pre-
feet, which consisted in obtaining the dis
perslon OF the rioters through the counsels
OF the patriarch, were not obtained, not
wIthstanding second visit during the
succeeding night and the formal promise
held out by the command of the authori-
ties not to act severely toward those who
had been the victims of their faith.
The patriarch, while pretending to ad-
wise the leaders of the movement to a
prompt disbandoning, again insisted on
the entire impotency of his counsels. If
one wishes additional proof of the muffin
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couraging atti tude of the ecclesiastical au-
thorities, one has but to call the attention
to the testimony of a certain Agop, men,
Der OF the 'Hintchaguiste' committee, and
who, being arrested, admitted that the
revolutionary committees had determ ined
to create trouble at Constantinopie by
attacking the Mussulman quarters and
killing all the Mussulmans they encoun-
tered. The Armenians in the service of
the Imperial Government were to be the
first victims. The deposition was con-
firmed by those of Mihran and Hampar-
SCUM, who were arrested the day after the
riots for having acted as Intermediates
between the chiefs of the movement, who
held themselves in the Armenian patri-
archal basilica and those of their followers
who were without. First Agop stated that
in giving them instructions one of the
chiefs of the committee had said to them:
I" If our question is not decided we will,
in a month, rise in force against the Gov
eminent. Then we will also distribute
weapons. We will fall on the Mussulmans
we encounter and we will kill them
"He then added that their supreme
efforts would be directed toward exter-
minating the agents of the secret police, in
attacking in mass the Sublime Porte and
the other departments of state, and, after
having killed all public functionaries, in
attacking the Mussulman quarters, with
view of thus enforcing a realization of
their designs.
1.-THE patriarch does nothing but cause
to be circulated long lists of deaths, en-
tirely fantastic and imaginary, desiring
thereby, for the greater advancement of
his cause, to make it appear that the num-
Der OF deaths has been much greater than
that established by the official inquests."
Heaty Buys Newspaper.
LONDON, ENG, Nov. 10. - Timothy