The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-29

porfe the following teieEram under toaay's
date: AS, according go the plan of tha
reforms judicial Inspectors had 20 eo APP
pointed for the six provinces OF Anatolia.
ZaEdI. Taih and Racbtd EUendi, presidents
oE the criminal sections OF the courts OF
appeal of N5n8stir. Adriauople and SiNass
parrial Enendi imperial attorney 10 the
court Of appeals OF Adm. Norgnakt and
Selimhindi Enendi, substitutes OF ths
chief generai attorney. were chosen 20 iii
these positions. His imperial majesty thu
sultan. whose earnest desire is 10 secure
the well-heing of all has subjects. has
been pleased 20 entrust Hakki Bey. legal
councillor of the sublime porte: Halid Bey.
president OF the court OF appeals. crifni-
nal section. and Enviri Enendi financial
inspector, with the mission Of going 70 ths
provinces of European Turkey in order
that they should inspect the administra-
tive judicial and financial affairs of tbs
same"
London. Nov. 2s.-The correspondent of
the Daily News at Constantinople tele-
graphs that TIE embassies there have
learned that in the massacre at Marast
on November IS. 1000 people were killed.
The Clristian quarters Of the town were
burned. from three points. y letter re-
ceivcd here. describing the previous mas
sacre. saws that before he commenced tho
town crier ordered the Christian shops
10 be opened. under penalty for refusal.
They were then pillaged and the murder
begun. The writer Of this letter. who
had been a great philo-Turk adds that
there was no sign OF a rising on the part
of the Christians
The correspondent also says that the
embassies hear from their consuls that all
possibility Of rendering assistance TO the
Sassoun people who were the victims OF
the outrage at that point has been ended.
and that the Kurds are wipiRg them out
of existence and have destroyed all the
no. al y tbA
expenditures Of the English relief fund.
4 similar story comes from the Van coun-
trv. where the disturbances continue as
bad as ever.
Vienna dispatch TO the Daily Tele-
graph saws the naval demonstration by
the powers against Turkey Is now re-
garded AS futile as a restraining influ-
eucc. The latest news received from the
interior of Turkey has a depressing iniiu-
ence on the diplomatic circle Reports
have been received That the renewed at
tempts 10 massacre the surviving Ar
menians AT Erzeroum have resulted I'm
eight hcing killed. Some Of the priests.
i'm sheer despair. are advising their fiocks
to save their lives by embracing Islam
London Nov. 2S.-A dispatch TO the Daily
News from Reyr0ut, dated November II.
confirms the reports OF the grave state or
affairs existing in Syria and Palestine. and
the repeated danger IN which the Ameri-
can missions have been placed by the rot
Gus demonstrations Of Mussuimans. Tho
dispatch adds that the whole Of Syria and
Palestine are flooded with Turkish SOL
dlers. and states that in tho country be-
tween Jana and Jerusalem there are eA,eo0
troons all raised within twenty days. The
Daily News correspondent adds. Troops
arriving here hear the significant green
nag Of the prophet, instead or the Turkish
flag Jerusalem Is crowded with soldiers,
and troops are belng stationed In the tower
~ David Pilates palace and in the Wilder
ness outside the Damascus gate. The os-
tenslbie purpose Of the troops fs 20 sub
due the pruseS"
Consfantinople. Nov. 2S.-In spite Of the
assurances the Turkish minister for for
cgu affairs gave the ambassadors cf
Great RriA'u a. Russia. Austria and italy
yesterday that a frTnan allowing passage
Of the DIrianelles would be immediately
issued by tho porte. the necessary docu-
ment has not been forthcoming. Con-
fcrences between the ambassadors have
taken place in the past twenty-f0ur hours.
and there have been many consultations
between the Turkish ministers and the
sultan at the palace. The answer or tbs
powers a. the request Or the porte that
they refrain from pressing their demand
for extra ciiardshlps was that they could
see no reason fr refusal of the demands
of the ambassadors for more effective
means Of protecting foreign residents or
Const8 8ntiuopie !u the emergency. In view
az this unanimous FNffiFs 1T - t9iAl1ftNi
In foreign oflcial circles that the sultan
has no alternative but 20 yield. especially
as Tho powers will have the extra gun
boats conveyed through the pardanelies
by hattiesh'ps II the sultan persists IN d.
atory tactics II seems highly probable
that the ambassadors have already deter
mined not 10 wait for the hrman beyond .
certain time and therefore IL may soon bo
announced that the gunhoats are coming.
A portion ~ tho British fleet which has
been AZ anchor in Saionic1 bay is UNDER
stood - have left those waters for Smyr-
na and should ugw be- quite near the Ffl-
trance - the Dar1anelles- All the forts
about the straits are fully manned and
supplied with ammunition AMI Tn fh0 hiRh-
est state of enc 'eneY compatible Win the
cfr~t1rnrtances EcarchiRhts are worked
nightly over the waters. II Is understood
"a system ~ submarine mines and torpe-
does has been practically completed, 80
FAR asa the resources or the goVernmenc
viii allow.
"Details have been received of the burn
ing of the American mission buildings AZ
trharr,it Thev show that the Turkish
government officials in spite of tho abun-
dance of promises of protection for the
American missionaries and their prop
erfv made hy the porte 10 United states
Minister Terrell and 20 the Americans
themselves by the authorities Of Kharput.
utterly failed 20 guard the Americans.
There was no protection offered or given
Thorn until after the massacre had acti-
aIv occurred and after the American
mission buildings had heen burned. n ~
estimated that. The value OF the American
rrapartv destroyed is about sie9 90. al
the burned buildings were looted hy the
mob before being set on fire. and all ths
perpgnal effects Of the American mission
aries and the libraries and scientific tn
str1lmeuta were stolen. So far only
small r,orrlon ~ the properly has been
recovered The lady missionaries wers
naturally in great terror while the riof-
ing was going on. and Mrs Gates, the
wife of ore ~ the missionaries. Was 80
Frustrated with alarm that she gave pre-
mature birth 20 a child. which did not
if,-a THE authorities of Kharputs how
ever protected the missionaries after ths
later had fed from their residence and 70
the official quarters. From that time on
h the Americans were kept under guard.
and those who 50 desired were furnished
wien escorts 20 the Black seq coast an
reuorts agreed in establishing the fact
that the riolluR was OF the most horrfbls
flssrrff5ffog. thai several hundred Ar
r,ertfaua men wcneu and children, were
t,tstchered: that the massacre seemed 20
he r.rerneditated. and that the Turkish
froous y they did not take part IN tns
slaughter as the Armeniafls claim, Ger
taIniv made no effort 20 pat stop 70 IT,
gr Terrell when informed ~ the de-
sfrssrrlon OF the mission buildings at