The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-08

respondent of the Associated Press in
ArmenIa).-The advance guard of the rev.
olutlonary party which, as announced
week ago, was betrayed to the Turkish
government by the Iesides of TshlbouAIa
on the nlgnt of Sunday, May 18Th, is low
in prison in the city of Van. Oniy one
MEMBER of the party escaped, and he, al
the earnest POSsloIe moment, ana at great
rlSh 20 nllnSeiI, put himself III comnIunl-
CallOn with lAe correspondent OF Ine AS
sociaUed FresS. Inc latLer IS now N pos
session CT complete lntOrma tloH with re-
Spect to the prisoners, Out as ne IS not
disposed 10 furnish the turkish govern
ment so long as tnere remains the SilgnI-
est cnance mat these men may escape
death he nolus, for the present, at least,
a considerable part OF the facts concern
ing them.
me men had been hiding IN the noun
taInS waiting Tor relltorcementS, making
pans Tor carrying on Jnelr Work, and the
weather having turned cod anu Wet, they
went 10 the house OF aahLo, head man CI
the Temboui1ia, 20 warm themselves and
ury tnv4r C.U,n4ng. ndnto was supposed
TO be friendly 10 The Armenian cause, as
he was not Turk, ana great NUMBERS OF
his fellow counLrymen mad Deen massd-
cred by the TURKISH government III the
Mosul district IN ley2. Upon arriving at
hantoS house the men SACKED arms in
the corner and gathered aOout the rire.
While there hahCo's scriOe, TURK,
called his master Out OF the house anu
insisted that they be handed 10 the Turk
ism government. The serIDe Threatened 10
denounce Hanto 10 the government un-
less the men were betrayed. HanJo then
called together a force OF I&urds and ez-
ides ana ordered them TO make the cap
ture. InesNInageTs went lnLO the room
one by one and LOOK part IN the CONVERSE
ton.
At a signal they seized the guns and
commanded The men 10 surreHUoI. taken
by surprise, the revolutonlSIs made no
resistance. OF the fourteen members in
q
had Baudin riiie and SIX of the party
had reviewers.
The prisoners were taken to Sew the
next day by the soldiers and then were
marched sixty miles 10 Van, where they
arrived Wednesday evening" Their arrl-
val was watched by 4 large number Of
Turks and Arnlenians. On the way they
were beaten by gun butts ana prodded
with bayonetS and otherwise maltreated.
As the English member OF the party was
unable to walk the whole distance, ne
was given a horse 10 ride the last twenty
ty miles. The EngiishDian told the Off
Gals that he was tiarrE Williams, OF y
OrmiSton Road, ShcpherdbuFgn, London.
His father was William Williams, OF the
same address. He had with him pho
tograph of a young woman and an Eng
liSh passport made cut to Harry Williams
on june i, 1872. He declares that he was
q correspondent of u telegraph agency
of London and that his card of creden-
tials was made out in the name of Paul
Quesnal. He was, he said on his way TO
the Moush and Sassoun region 10 investi-
gate the Armenian situation. His thir-
teen companions were in his pay as
guards against attacks by Kurds. The
other prisoners told the same story. All
were well dressed as kurdS, including
Williams. AT first Williams denied thnt
he could speak Armenian but subsequent
~ under pressure of torture he admitted
that he could. After week of expert
ments with various kinds OF persuasions
known to the Turkish jailors, the gov
ernor OF Van said that Williams had con-
fessed everything. Nobody believes this.
Up to May 80 Williams had been unable
to see the British vice consul at Van,
although Mr.. IIallward went so far as 10
ask the governor unoniclally TO let Inn see
Williams, but the request was refused.
All Of the prisoners have been tortured
during the week Ind that their persons
have been violated by the prison oTncia4S
in the most reTolting ana disgusting man
ner.
daily. The Associated Press is constantly
in receipt of stories of robbery, outrage
and murder. The conditions OF the Ar
menians have been worse during the past
six months than ever before. Even in the
city of Nal soldiers lave been placed on
guard at the Armenian churches, the Of
ficiaiS fearing an uprising.
The correspondent had q talk YESTERDAY
with the leader of the revolutionary
party in the province of Var. he stated
that so far as he Is concerned, the revo-
known what Great Britain will do. fIe
admitted also that the capture of VII
lians had very seriously disarrarged the
revolutionary plans for the time psinS.
No other leader is at present available.
Van. Armenia. June 5.-The Ar
menian revolutionist prisoners who
were betrayed to the Turkish govern
ment at Tchiboukla on May ~, were
taken from the prison at Van Sunday
morning, June ,, and started on their
way to Constantinople by order OF the
Ii
transferred till they had left Van, the
order having come from Constantine
pie last Sunday night. Instead OF be-
ing dragged along on foot, the men
were mounted on caravan horses.
The Associated Press correspondent
is now in a position 10 say that sec
ond revolutionary band is in existence
across the Persian frontier, but OF ITS
immediate plans he has not been able
to learn. The leaders of this band
were among those met by the CORES
pondent in a Persian city early in May.
The band is divided, one part going
forward under Harry Williams, and
the other remaining In Persia TO fur
nish recruits. The news from Con-
stantinople and London that Armenian
reforms are to be carried out by the
Turks has caused the most intense
despair and CONSERVATION among the
people expected a mountain of help
from Great Britain and they have re-
ceived nothing. The situation is most
desperate am informed by all classes
of Armenians that unless the reforms
are carried out under the control OF
the Christian powers, the Armenians
will have to choose between emigra-
ton and revolution.
The people are worse off now than
limo in l1oi1-
history and the persecution goes stead
lily on.
The government is now collecting
the whole years fees in advance
which is a most unheard of and cruel
proceeding. The demand is accentu-
ated by beaitings and bayonet thrusts.
Thousands of poor villagers are living
on roots and green's, and on the Moush
plains the wretched SasSouns are liter
ally starving to death. The protests
of Great Britain and America have