The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-06
Massacred by Turks.

| berillt Lee, o-A ulSpAtCn rom Sl. Petersburg to the Cologne Gazette states that it is reported there that seven warships and nine torpedo boats, forming the armed reserve of the Black Sea fleet, are anchored at sebastopol
 It is asesrted In naval circles in St. Petersburg that month ago when Russia assumed that Great Britain might enter the Hellespont alone, or 'ders were sent to Sebastopol to arm the vessels, raise their crews to the l full complement of men and hold the fleet in readiness to sail upon twenty four hours notice
 Constantinople Dec, 5. The report circulated yesterday that the sultan had changed his mind in regard to the ap- pointment of Turkhan Pacha as ann bassador to Germany and had appoint ed zia Pacha, Turkish ambassador at Paris, to go to Berlin instead, is con firmed It is also announced that Muni Bey, son of Mahmud Djelleledin Pacha, minister of commerce and public works, will succeed Zia Pacha as Turkish rep resentative at Paris.
 Although frequent meetings of the suItan's cabinet have been held at the palace to discuss the question of the admission of extra guardships through Inc Dardanelles, no change in the position of the porte has been made known and the situation remains as | before.
 | Adyices received here from Marash and Bitlis say that the missionaries at Marash are safe and mot at all ap- prehensive of further danger but that the missionaries at Bitlis are in state of anxiety.
 Said Pacha, president of the council of state and formerly grand vizier, has taken refuge in the British erll- bassy fearing that he will be arrested. l London Dec. 5.--ThIe correspondent l of the United Press at Constantinople, under yesterdays date, says that in I the massacre which occurred at Mar ash on November IS, the killing, pill laging and burning was done by the 1 Turkish troops alone. There was ab- | solutely no uprising of the inhabitants, and no violence whatever except on the part of the military.
 The people massacred were power less to defend themselves and fell like ] sheep before the swords and guns of the soldiers. ~
 A massacre has also taken place at Filleh. near the city of Tokat It is learned that 200 persons were killed l in the massacre that took place at Kaisarea on November 30.
 A dispatch from Paris to the Times l states that in an interview to-day a parsonage having access to the sultan I and expressing actual ideas of the lat l ter vouched for the statement that England did not start the proposal for I a second guardship in the Bosphorus.
 He stated that M. Nelidoff, the Rus sian ambassador to Turkey, originated the idea, and that Sir Philip Currie, the British minister, only gave his ad- hesion after the other diplomats.
 It is asserted that the Dryad was expressly ordered not to enter the Hell llespont without formal order twice issued The parsonage declared that l the story that Sir Philip Currie was blunt, passionate and rude was a pure I myth.
 l lie SeiiNis alLdl llC was pti SOudiIy ctI- \ quainted with Sir Philip, and that the I latter was rnostentatious, prudent and 1 experienced; that he was liked by his l colleagues and esteemed by the sultan, ] who was fond Of conversing with him. l The Times prints the following from Constantinople:
 I Although the sultan proposed and Germany accepted ex-Minister Turkhan I as Turkish ambassador to Berlin. the sultan has changed his mind and has l appointed zia Pacha, now the represen- I tative of Turkey at Paris, to go to I Berlin
 The Times correspondent defends the arrests and deportations at Constan- tinople as riddlng the city of an ele- 1 ment that will be we'll spared, as 1t would constitute the bulk of the mob in the event of a riot
 l The correspondent admits that in some instances the choice of the per sons arrested has been unhappy but l says that in the main the arrests have ] been beneficial and that the danger of disorder in the city lessens daily. 1 Chicago, Dec. 5.--S. M. Moore, father I of Mrs Gates, who is now at the Amer ican college at Kharput, received the l following dispatch from Assistant Sec retary of State ,Uhl yesterday:
 Terrell, our minister, cables that I Kharptt telegrams report Americans l protected and that Mrs. Gates is con- l valescing.
 I This is the first direct news that I we have had of Mrs. Gates since the | massacre" said MT. Moore. Secretary Uhl is a warm personal friend of MT. l and Mrs. Gates.
 l "On Thanksgiving day I wired him
 to cable Mir. Terrell, requesting him to
 send to Kharput for definite news of
 Mrs. Gates and her husband and spare