The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-05-27
IARMING FOR REVENGE.
Another Outbreak Of Armenians
|tss. Expected Next Month.
THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE STARVING

The Reports of the Terrible Atrocities by
I Turks aud Kurds Further Confirmed by
n British onolaI and an American Mis-
sionary.
LONDON, May e7.-The special correspon-
dent of tho Associated Press in Armenia
writes as follows from Kars, Russia, un-
der date of April 20:
(, During tho past three weeks have had
unusual opportunity for obtaining addi-
,tional confirmation of the facts contained
in my announcement of the impending
uprising OF the Armenians in Turkey next
month. I have travelled many miles up
and down and across the border in search
of certain facts, and as a result have had
the satisfaction of actually seeing and
thandling some of the rifles now being
smuggled across tho Turkish frontier by
che revolutionary party. Moreover, the
plans of the party have been more fully
explained to me by some of the most ac-
tive and intelligent Of the leaders OF the
eastern wing of the movement, and l am
now entirely satisfied that unless unfore-
seen and uncomfortable circumstances
arise, the uprising will take place.
4 The exact date for the uprising has not
get been fixed, for the most part to the
faot that the extreme eastern section Of
the revolutionary party is not ready for
active operations. Whether or not the
central section will wait for the eastern
wing longer than the month Of May / do
mot know, nor has the matter actually
been decided. 1 am led to believe that the
eastern wing cannot be ready for hostilities
An May, and possibly not before July l.
THE eastern wing has been and is having
q hard time of 1t, owing to two circum-
stances over which the leaders have no
control. $780,.
The mountain passes leading to Van
have been blocked with snow for months,
so that 1t was impossible to forward guns
and ammunition from Russia and Persia.
Besides, the Armenians in the eastern end
of Turkey are in a condition bordering on
starvation. 1t Is obvious that people In
this condition cannot fight. On this point,
q leading executive officer of the revolu-
tionary party said to me three days ngoi
"If men have nothing In their stomachs
what oan they dor We must first feed
thsm before we eap expect them to fight
When we can get food enough on hand to
last them two months then we shall show
the world how Armenians can fight"
1t is this question of food that the revo-
Iutionary leaders will find most difficult
of solution. 1t Is a fact that in the east
ern part Of Armenia food is so scarce that
we'll lido and rich people have no moro
than they actually need As for the poor
Armenians, their condition Is distressing
in the extreme, and, added to the rob.
berries, outrages and massacres which
Turks and Kurds have brought upon
shem, they are now harassed by q famine
90 terrible that many Of them are actually
dying of starvation.
Few crops were grown last summer,
owing to the fact that many of the farm
ers and oultivators were thrown into
prison by the Turks under charges Of revo-
1utionary conspiracy. Then the cattle
were stolen by the Kurds, and what the
poor people had left in the way Of provis-
Ions or property was seized by tho govern
snent officials for taxes. Even the com
tponest household utensils were taken by
the tax gathers, so that the people were
left destitute.
There will be no crops planted In eastern
Armenia this spring for the country every
where Is suffering from reign of terror.
The presence of the commission of inquiry
at Moosh and the indignation of the
Christian powers of Europe have had alb.
solutely no effect on the conduct of either
the Turks or tho Kurds In eastern Turkey.
vices from q non Armenian source at Van
to the effect that massacre is looked for
ht any moment. My correspondent writes
that they are living within an inch of q
knassacre' all the time.
When the new grass Of spring enables
the Kurdish horsemen to move about the
pountry the work of DISCRIMINATING the
Armenians, which was Interrupted by the
fall of snow after the Sassoun and Moosh
massnores last autumn, will be begun
anew. With no crops and no cattle of theil
own, the Armenians will either die ol
starvation or flee to Persia and Russia
The famine will seriously affect both
Kurds and Turks, as they live mainly
upon the industry of the Armenians- the
former by open handed robbery aud the
last named by extortlon end outrageous
taxation.
1t is a fact, which the British govern
ment can verify by consulting the report
Of Mr.. Patton, an official of the British
consulate at Tebriz Persia, that in severa
Gases the Turkish officials in the devas
tated district of Armenia there coult
hardly save the Armenians from death ant
the property from destruction; but, wher
they protested against the murderous raid
of the troops, the officers read to them th,
orders of the sultan, and so nothing coult
be done. In many cases the officials OF thu
villages warned the Annenians n day be
fore the soldiers appeared in order that tn,
poor people might have chance to escape
The Investigation of Mr.. Patton alons
the Persian border has been confirmed, IL
b Ageneral way, the facts which l have in
cidentally obtained during the past eigh
weeks. He has collected many heartrend
Ing stories of persecution, robbery, out
yege and murder, with names, dates ant
places, and as reasonable proof that TIL
refugees who gave testimony to him tolt
the truth 1t may be said that, In genera
way, the facts obtained in different place
were practically the same. The events o
che massacre were 80 horrible that ever
the chronic exaggeration Of the Armenian
mind fails TO add anything to them.
Mr. Patton WINS accompanied on this tou
OF Investigation by Dr. Wright an Amer
loan missionary stationed at Salinas
These gentlemen took the testimony from
several witnesses to the effect that whel
the Turkish soldiers and kurds appeared
At o certain village they killed some of tn
Villagers who dared to protest agains
their outrages, and that one of the den
msp was cut up and boiled In a kettle lik
10 much beef. The boiled pieces wer
then given DO the villagers as food. TIL
wretohod creatures were compelled to Ga
fheir dead friend to tho last mouthful.
In another village party of Kupi
found child asleep in q cradle. The
overturned the cradle and smothered tn
child. Then they dissected the body an
roasted pieces of 1t before the fire. As
climax they compelled the members of tn
family, including the childs mother,
eat the roasted pieces.
Sale of Cows.
Robert Merrlok sold forty.two head {
COWS at Adams Station, Christiana Hur
AEnh Ihursdan II. .arnnan from, aoa I