The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-16
TURKEY LOOKING FOR A WAR.
THE RESERVES ORDERED OUT N
PREPARATION FOR 1T.

A Joint Convention signed BY the
Representatives of Six Powers at
CoustantinOpIe - Unemployed Ar
meninns at COnstantinOpIe Arrest
ed By the Police and Shipped to
Asia MinOr-The Grand Vizier says
lie Looks for Happy solution Of
the Existing Troubles.
London. Nov. IA dispatch from the
re,-esentative Of the United Press in
Constantinople. under date of Nov. II,
saws it is announced that the commission
sppointed to put into force the reforms
sdopted for the administration of affairs
in Asia Minor. would begin its sittings
to-day. Nov. 10. 1t is asserted by persons
in d position to obtain the very best and
most reliable information. that the terms
OF the convention, signed by the six pow
er-. agreeing upon joint action in the
matter of compelling immediate applica-
tfon of the reforms in Armenia and other
disturbed districts, nave been Kept strict
IL secret i'm order to avoid an uprising
of the Mohammedan pOpulace. 1t is as
serted that the reserves recently called
out by the Turkish government, osten-
sibly for the purpose of restoring order
in Asia Minor, are really being prepared
for participation in a European war,
which the sultan and his ministers be-
lieve TO be inevitable.
The Daily News will tomorrow publish
q dispatch from Constantinople saying
that the police and gendarmes, acting un-
der orders from the porte, are arresting
every unemployed Armenian in the capt.
tai and shipping them daily to Asia
mostly inoffensive, and are not charged
with any wrong doing.
An order has been issued for the re
moyal of the military school at Pnacaldi
70 Scutari
Constap+inonIa Nov Kan oficial
communication issued this afternoon an
nounces that with the intention of end
ing the troubles in Anteloa and insuring
order and peace, the government has
summoned l2S battaliOns of reserves, a
part from the contingents of the Fourth
and Fifth army corps. 1t has also rein
structed the wallis and military comman-
ters in peremptory language to assure
just and equal treatment to all subjects
q the sultan, irrespective of race or re-
ligion
Berlin, Nov. 15.-The Tageblatt publishes
am interview which its correspondent has
had with HALL Rifat Pasha, the Turk
ism grand Vizier, who said he was over
joyed TO find that the porte was on good
terms with the powers. He added that he
hopefully looked to a happy solution OF
the pending questions True, the Arme-
man agitators were continuing their cam
paign against justice and humanity, caus-
ing fresh murders and massacres, but,
thanks to the measures the sultan had de-
creed, the disorders would soon be sup
The Tageblatt also publishes an inter
view with the Armenian patriarch of
Constantinople. He said that he felt
bound to admit that the porte alone might
be expected to assist the Armenians. Nei-
ther the Russians or the English had any
serious intentions of doing anything for
them. The patriarch admitted that the
massacres had been provoked by the
Armenians, adding that the revolutionary
committee was trying to incense both
sides and produce further conflicts. This
a In Of
vent.
New York, Nov 15.-Ex-United States
to Turkey Oscar s. Straus to-
day received from Rev Henry o. Dwight.
head of the Bible House Mission in Con-
stantinople, the following cablegram:
Armenia Is laid waste; a quarter of a
million souls are destitute. Will you
start humanitarian work, forming a
strong non-partisan relief committee in
dependent Of the missionaries2"
Referring to the dispatch, Mr. Straus
said. DR.. Dwight had been in Turkey for
twenty years, and his dispatch can be re-
lied upon. He would not cable thus
said Mr. Straus, ''if he were not thor
oughly assured of the facts There evil
IDENTIFY must have been some terrible con-
flcts between the Turkish troops and the
Armenians. There should be co-opera-
ton in various committees. which have
been formed for this purpose, and steps
Will now be taken with this end in view"
odessa, Nov. 15.-Nearly every steamer
arriving from ports in Asia Minor brings
numbers of Armenian refugees, who are
mostly destitute. They receive assistance
from rich Armenians here. Crowds of ref
ugees daily cross the Armenian frontier
into Russia.