New-York tribune., 1895-12-17
MASSACRE FOR REFORM.
Turkish REPLY TO THE DEMAND
OF THE POWERS.

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,r THE SULTAN MUST YIELD AND WAS
,oxr1SEp TO THE PROVINCES FOR
WHICH REFORMS WERE PLANNED
No CONCERT OF THE POWERS
YET RUss1Ns SECOND
GrARDsHIP AT CON
sTANTINoPLE
,or Doc 16-"The Daily News" will to-
~,,v publish long letter. the author OF
.,oh II says is able TO speak with the
-, Of any Ambassador. reviewing the mas
.os IN Anatolia The letter shows that the
sacres have been confined to the provinces
which the scheme OF administrative re-
.-r, was designed. They began Immediately
s,r u appeared that the Sultan must yield
% accent the scheme OF the Powers. and had
.,heir object the reduction OF the Armenians
minimum owing to the proposal TO con-
a, unon them a proportionate share in the
LII executive. The local officers everywhere
,-,o-ed the massacres until the time previously
ayo,,ed TO the mobs to do their bloody work
had expired
F,propean resident of Aintab writes to
,,h. Daily News" that the commander OF the
.-oons harangued the mob before the massacre
:, November 2S began. The soldiers looked on
ordered 10 intervene, when they fired a few
-. 3, .he air The mob Immediately dis
persed.
Tho representative Of the United Press in Con-
..a,,inonle telegraphing under yesterdays date
COWS that advices from the interior of Asia Minor
are n1eagre owing 10 the fact that there are
considerable delays in the receipt Of mails. The
latest letters received from Harpoot are dated
Novernber IS They state that hfty-three villages
oround Harpoot have been burned and hundreds
% their nhabtants killed. Bishop Hohanes to-
rether with his servants was tortured to death
Mos, Of the priests We're tortured and killed In
attempts TO compel them 10 adopt lslamism
some Of the priests yielded under :he torture
they were subjected 10.
Al Muss!s near Adana, the commander of the
-eiifs pulaged a church aid outraged the wife
Of the priest The prizes. telegraphed complaint
to the authorities at Adans. and was afterward
arrested and thrown into prison.
Letters from AleXandretta, dated November 20
say that a number Of fugitives from Marash and
Aintab have reached there. after a terrible jour
nev They say that many Armenians died along
Inc road where their bodies remain unburied.
The Porte on Sunday circulated reports that
the Arrnenians at Zeitoun pillaged and burned
nine villages. killing $50 Mosems. including six
teen women whose bodies they mu,ilated.
Const. ntinople Dec. l6-The corvette Donetz,
which will act as the second guardship OF Russia,
arrived here to-day All the second guard
ships with the exception Of that OF Germany,
are now here.
Manchester Dec. 16-"The Guardian" says
that the Duke Of Westminster a few days ago
wrote letter to Lord Salisbury urging that
England take decisive action 10 put stop TO
she atrocities in Armenia. In reply to this let
Ter the Premier admitted that there was really
no effective concert Of the European Powers
in regard 10 Turkey. He was convinced ne
said that although public opinion in England
was deeply moved at the horrors in Armenia,
no such deep-seated feeling existed in Conti-
mental countries.
Athens Dec. 16.--A dispatch from Syria, capt.
tai u the island Of that name. saws that three
battalons of Turkish troops have been defeated
hy the Creians at Apokorona, Crete, the Turkish
loss being twenty-four killed and thirty-eight
wounded The Cretan loss was five killed and
eight wounded The dispatch also says that the
Turks have murdered two women. five children
and three a Alicampo.
Rome Dec. 16-The Pope has sent 10000 lire
f1r the relief Of the sufferers from Turkish mis-
,,i'a In Anatolia in addition 10 the $4,000 lire
previously given by him for the same purpose