Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-25
MASSACRES GO ON.
Report of n Critical State of Affairs at
H0diin.

A letter was received in Boston yesterday
relating to the critical condition in Hadjin,
Asia Minor The correspondent says it is
only by supreme effort on the part of the
better class of NIosleIns and Christians that
hostlities involving the entire popula ton
have hitherto been prevented. The Kama
kan, instead of eXerting himself to keep the
peace, has ntlamed MosiemS and Christians
against each other. he former have been
equipped with arms, while the houses of the
latter have been searched, and every wea-
pom found. even to a knife, was contiscated-
Notwithstanding all the assaults and plum
dering OF property of which the Mosle ms
| have been guilty within these days, none of
them have been arrested or punished.
On the contrary, the Kaimakam says: Il
will burn your town and destroy every trace
of it, SO that whoever desires may turn it
into barley field
/ In addition to a number of assaults not
resulting seriously, three men have been
shot or stabbed. two others wounded and
badly beaten, five women assaulted and
Stripped of their clothes while cattle and
property of various kinds have been taken
by the kurdS and Turks. Shar, 4 village of
seven hundred Christians is in imminent
danger In Gaoksoon, kirej and Dash
Cloog, not a Christian can be found. They
have fled to the mountains, and their prop
erty has been seized by the Turks and
kurds. Some of the women and children
came to Hadjin. They do not know what
| has become of their men.
"A
Minor, about thirty miles north of Adana
in the heart of the Taurus mountains. The
population is almost entirely Armenian.
Mission work has been carried on quite sue
cessfully by Mrs. Coting, whose husband,
Rev. J. l.. Cotiing, a missionary of the
American board, was murdered by robbers
on journey from Marash to the coast in
1867. There is a t present a large school, and
| the church is very prosperous.
The missionary force at Hadjin comprise
Rev. John c. Martin, Mrs. Mary 1. Martin,
Mrs. Josephine l. Cotiing. Miss Eula G.
| Bates and Miss Agnes +. Swenson. The
homes Of the missionaries at Hadjn are a
follows: Rev. and Mrs j. c. Martin, Dun
dee, Quebec; Mrs. Coffing, Dresden, Ohio:
Miss Bates, Abingdon, H., and Miss Sven
son, Chicago, Ill.
S. }. FulIerson, at Louisville has received a
letter from his uncle, Rev. X. A. Dalkiran-
atrocities. The letter bears the date Of Ces-
area, November %. The writer and his
family have taken refuge at the American
mission. He describes the situation of the
Armenlans as like sheep awaiting the
slaughter The letter is full of prayerful
appeals to heaven and to the powers for IN
reference and del.verance
Mr.. Fu,erson is himself an Armenian who
has felt the cruelty of Turkish authority
He was under sentence for life about thraa
says he escaped by paying bride of SD
900 to his jailor. He had previously been in
| this country, and returned to it as soon as
| he could after his escape from Turkish
| hands.
| Letters receiver at Worcester, Mass. nv
| local Armenians from Harpoot contain hor-
| ribe accounts of murder, outrage, butchery
| and pillage. Details of the literal cutting
| to pieces of Rev. H. A. Andreasean, former
| ly of Worcester, before his church people
are given graphically in connection with
| the murder of several others who have been
| raturaliZcd and are American citizens.