Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-11-14
TURKEY IS DOOMED.
More Terrible Msssacres Powers De-
hed-British Mission Sacked.

ued-Brttish Mtsstoh sacked.
Constantinople: The greatest excite
ment reigns here. The grand vizier.
kiamil Pasha, has resigned, and Hall
Rifat Pasha has been appointed TO sue
coed him and new ministry has been
formed. A Moslem uprising has been
threatened, but the sultans officers
have prevented IL by subterfuges
The police raided the Turkish quarter
of Sedik Pasha and bloody fight en-
sued in which dozen were killed. A
fresh crop of revolutionary placards
was scattered broadcast. Even at the
porte's house letter was found giving
the sultan the alternative of addiction
or assassination.
Reports are reaching the embassies
OF the powers from all directions of
wholesale massacres. The report is
gaining ground, even in diplomatic
circles, that the sultan has ordered
the determination of the Armenian
race. The excitement is spreading to
Syria, Bagdad and Mosul Murder
and rapine are rampant throughout
Armenia. The number of the killed
must not be reckoned by hundreds or
by thousands, but by tens of thou
sands, and reports from Syria declare
cred under direct orders from the gov
eminent The joint action of the
foreign minister's and their individual
and peremptory demands upon the
porte is regarded as the most grave
and significant demonstration of re-
cent years. They told the porte
plainly that force would be used unless
the Turkish government took adequate
action to protect the Armenians. As
each day passes, however, the situation
becomes more and more alarming.
The sultan seems TO be defying the
powers in bestowing orders for good
service upon the Turkish officials who
are held responsible for the recent out
RACES in Armenia.
The Armenians are said to be receiv-
ing support from unexpected sources
and the Turkish government may soon
be face to face with an open and wide
spread revolt. The dissatisfaction
against the rule of the sultan has ex-
tended to the Turkish army and navy.
Nobody here would be surprised to
hear of an outbreak in the palace
itself
The news received from the provinces
continues to be of the gravest nature.
further disorders are reported from
different sections, the mobilizing of
the army reserves is progressing so
slowly that they might just as well
have been left at home, and the gen
eral impression prevails stronger than
ever that European intervention in the
administration of the affairs of the
Turkish empire will very soon become
absolutely necessary in order to avert
further and much more serious blood
shed. The porte seems insensible to
what is going on or utterly incapable
of appreciating the extent to which
anarchy has spread during the last few
weeks. The number of victims of the
Baiburi massacre is now reported to be
1900, and it is estimated that the total
number of Armenians, men, women
and children, killed during all the
most recent masSacres exceeds 10000,
and that total is constantly being
added to. During the past two weeks
over $50 Armenians have been exiled
from Constantinople without trial, and
the police are still engaged in making
arrests. A consul just arrived from
the interior and he describes the whole
country from Erzoum and Trebizond
as being completely devastated.
Every Armenian town and village is in
ruins. Heaps of unburied bodies are
found everywhere.
Every indication points to the fact
that the affairs of Turkey are APP
crisis, and it is significant
that only two solutions of the difficulty !
are discussed by the European press
the entire ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Turkey |
or the deposition of the sultan. The |
powers are now showing that they will |
no longer be hoodwinked by the sui
tan's promises, which are never in
tended to be kept 1t is known that |
the sultan still refuses to believe that |
that the powers are in accord in de- |
reforms.
From Arabia comes reports of a con-
hict between Turkish troops and Arabs |
near SIENNA in which 30 were killed. |
New disturbances are occurring at
Moosh. So it goes throughout all |
Turkey, revolt in almost every PROV
nee and, with the threatened demon
'tration by the powers, the porte may
soon awake to the fact that the very
life of the Turkish empire is in danger.
Now Let the Lion Roar.
Constantinople: The English mission
hear Jerusalem has been attacked by
! riotous mob. The missionaries es-
.aped, but some of the servants of the
mission were killed.
President Cleveland has issued n nro-