The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-18
4 Great Rising Planned to
Take Place Next Month.
MONEY AND RIFLES GATHERED.
The Armeniaus DO Not Expect TO Do
Able TO Win Liberty.
But the Great Powers woula Re Com-
pclted 20 Interfere to stop tho
Hatchery by the Turks. and the
Annexation eff Armenia 10 Russia
Would soon Follow.
CoryrlghteA. lsas. hv Aseoclate., T,ress.

copyrighted. 1886. hy Associated Press.
London. April 1.-THE correspondent of
the Associated Press. writing from Ar
naenia under DATE OF March II. says:
have travelled nany hundreds Of miles in
Russia and Persia. and have visited Ar
nenian caieuieS as far east as the Cas-
rfan sea and IS far south as the city OF
Teheran. and have learned. after the nluss
careful Investigation and yerincation or
the facts, that the Armenian question
viii soon reach an acute and painful
crisis. IN fact. Armenia is preparing for
war The revolutionary party has now
both money and guns During the past
eight weeks money has poured into the
revolutionary treasury in steady stream
from the Armenian colonies in Ratoum.
Tiisss, Saku. Erivan. Etehmiadzin and
other places In Russia. and from Reschf.
kaxvin. Teheran. Tebrix. khosa and other
cities In Persia. The central idea OF the
plan Of campaign ts a general uprising
OF Armcni4ns throughout the Turkish
empire some time during the month OF
May. The leaders have promised the peo-
pie ia the eastern part or Armenia that
the chief attack will be made In the city
OF tonstantinonle itself. and that the
irunt Of the fighting will he done by the
Armenian residents therein, but this may
he only a suhfertugC 10 encourage tho
fainthearted AT Van. Bitlis and Moosh.
The Armenians have at least 4.eoo Mar
;ini-Henry rifles hidden in secret places
In the mountains not n great distance
from Lake Van. For a handful of un-
trained Armenians to deliberately begin
fight with the hundred thousand regu-
lar troops of the Turkish empire would
seem to be folly too colossal for human
conception Yet the purpose Ii not to
bring Turkey 10 terms in fair fight but
TO settle the quarrel by Intervention of the
European powers Before the revolution
4 = al hp Ia h...
lieved, will he compelled TO take a hand
In the conflict. for the cruelty, atrocity.
the outrage. the hlood-iust and hatchery
of the struggle will be so unthinkahiy
horrible that Christian humanity win In
terfere. Armenia. ii is then hoped. may
get her freedom.
For the most part. the revolutionary
leaders are of the younger generation OF
Arnlenians, who argue that IL Is no worse
that few thousand Armenans should ha
Killed at one time than that they should
be killed separately during a period OF =
few months or years. To what extent
the plans of the revolutionary leaders ara
approved by the Armenian people at largo
il Is difficult TO tell. / seriously doubt 10
those plans are known In detail TO more
than per cent. OF the Arnenians Stil
there are genuine patriots who believe
that 10 free Armenia from the dreadful
depth to which she is sunk they must
men 10 torture. outrage and death.
There is belief In Europe that Russia
desires 10 make the Armenians Russian
subjects by annexing the eastern end OF
Turkey Curiuusiy enough. this belief is
not shared by the Russians of the cau~
casian region. The Georgfans certainly
would resent any further increase In Tho
Armenian population. The business meth
ods of the Armenans are not generally
approved hy Georgians and Russians. III
lis therefore believed unlikely that Russia
wants the Armenians, but whether or not
che wants the Turkish territory which
the Armenians inhahit Is quite another
matter For the most part the average
Armenian is anxious 10 have some other
man fight hts battles. and ne IL willing
TO believe England and Russia are only
waiting for chance 20 come In and dis
member the Turkish empire.
The Armenian newspapers In Russia
and Persia contain no hint. however re-
mote. Of these preparations. hut contain
only demonstrations Of Turkish tyranny
and demands for the enforcement Of the
e1st article az the Berlin treaty The low
er classes are less discreet In Tffiis es-
peclaIly they rli themselves up with vof-
ka and go about the streets clamoring for
an Armenian king. AS the time for the
revolutionary uprising approaches ths
words OF the Armenian Catholic. Mgr.
Ghrtmlran have an added Significance:
Armenia rs in sore distress but her sur
ferings will soon be at. an end