The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-04
TURKEYS DELIBERATE PLAN.
The Partial DETERMINATION of Ar
meniams the Aim-Reltef Fund

meMaaHS uMe Alua-Re11ef Euud.
BOSTON, Dec. 4, 1Ss5.-The treasurer
in Boston of the Armenian Relief Com
mittee, Mr.. F. H. Wiggin, No. 1 Somer-
set street, makes acknowledgment today
of 1896 for the aid of the survivors of the
massacre in Armenia. These funds have
been forwarded to Turkey, part having
been sent by cable, and they are being
used judicially by members of the British
Embassy and other thoroughly reliable
and trustworthy agents. A cable des-
patch was received in Boston today stat
ing that communication can still be made
by telegraph with all the leading points
in the interior. The agents at Constanti-
nople are constantly receiving most heart
rending appeals for aid kilograms from
Harpoot, Mardin, Trebizond and othel
cities are all of the same tenor-that in
stant help is needed; that thousands of
the inhabitants are in imminent danger
fperishing from lack of food ard cloth
ing. The sufferings of the aged and sick,
of women and little children, cannot be
described.
The following summary of the situa-
ton is contained in a letter written by
Bostonian who has been in that country
during the major portion OF long life.
1t lis from Constantinople.
kilograms and letters inform the
world. says the writer of the contin-
ued massacres the sack and loss at
Harpoot. Note that
l. Women and children are not out
ragged as in the ordinary Mohamedan
massacres.
2. The chief object of the Moslem
mobs and the Kurds is to kill the princi-
pal men among the Armenians and plum
der their shops and houses.
8. The greatest slaughter is among the
poor villagers who try to defend their
The Turks and the Kurds seem to
have come to the deliberate conclusion
ton is to kill the men and leave the sur
viyorS utterly helpless. In this they are
right The sufferings in the highlands
Of Armenia this winter must be per-
fectly awful
8. The Government clearly means that
when the scheme of reform % is put into
be benefited thereby shall be sensibly di-
minished. This is the real reply of the
Turks to Europe.
6. The Turks have been egregiously
lying when they pretend that Armenians
have provoked these dreadful massacres
by first attacking Moslerns. Save at Con-
stantinople, on September ST., and at
mountaineers) The Armenians have
done nothing so far to justify the asper-
sions of the Turkish authorities
z. There has been a system in all the
massacres. Beginning at Trebizond, the
wave of murderous assault and pillage
has swept on until now it has reached
Sivas, and where it will stop we know not.
Such is the new baptism of blood to
which, in the nineteenth century, the
poor Christians of Turkey are subjected,
while four hundred millions of Chris
tians in America and Europe look on
We hear that ships of war have sailed
from France, Italy, ETC., but we know
not that the powers of Europe have
even now laid aside their jealousies for
one short hour to stay the wave of Mos
lem cruelty and fanaticism and save the
lives of these suffering, dying Chris
tians. The Armenians are in utter deS-
pair. The Turks have the lead; they are
mocking Europe; and we'll they may
for the attitude of the European powers
(shall / say of the American govern
InenD is utterly selfish and contempt