The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-28
some TURKISH ESTIMATES.
DAMAGE, $5o,000,OO0 AND 10000
PEOPLE SLAUGHTERED IN
ANATOLIA ALONE.
another MEETING OF AMBASSADORS
To Decide Upon Plan of Action-Extra
Guard Ships Still Excluded From
Bosphorus-Cuban General Ma
Geo Reported Killed.

Constantinople, Nov. %, via Sofia,
Nov. 26.-Now that matters seem to be
quoting down again here and in the
Asiatic provinces, people are beginning
to form estimates of the amount of dam
age done and the number of lives lost
during the recent disturbances. Well
Informed Armenians estimate the losses
through the events which have just taken
place in Anatolia alone at $50, 600
and the number of victims at 10000.
OF course these are Armenian estimates,
but there seem good reasons for believ-
ing that the property destroyed, the num-
Der of lives sacrificed ana the terrible
outrages committed are far beyond any
thing hitherto estimated or described.
But this is not all. People competent
to pronounce an opinion upon the subject
say that with the coming of winter there
will be many more deaths from exposure
and famine and that even the prompt
collection of relief funds, food and cloth
ing cannot avert much loss of life and
great suffering. Famine is threatened
i'll Il number OF districts and there seems
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powers, instead of ordering their fleets
away from Turkish waters, as the sui
tan earnestly requested, seem to be de-
termined upon keeping them in this
vicinity for an indefinite period. A Dor-
ton of the British Mediterranean fleet,
it is reported here, will soon leave Sa-
lonica bay for Smyrna, where the powers
are mastering their fighting ships. The
warships of Great Britain expected to
rendezvous at Smyrna this week will
consist of nine battle ships, four cruisers
the Salonica bay feet will, it is said,
move off from that port for the present,
but will be ready for any emergency.
France has already at Smyrna one
battleship, two cruisers and two smaller
ships.
1taly's flag floats from two battleships,
two cruisers and four smaller craft in the
waters of Smyrna.
Russia has two cruisers on the way to
Smyrna, in addition to powerful fleet
cruising in the western portion of the
Black sea.
The United States will be represented
at Smyrna by two cruisers and Ger
many has one small gunboat there, but
1t is rumored that two German battle
ships are on their way there.
Austria, off Smyrna, has one battle
ship, two cruisers and two small gun
boats.
OF course this is not naval demon
stration," it is simply the concentration
of the foreign fleets at a point agreed
upon, apparently, between the powers.
No progress has been made in the mat
ter of the application to the porte of the
representatives of Great Britain, Russia,
Italy and Austria for permission for the
passage through the straits of the OAR
danelles and on into the Bosphorus of
an extra gunboat to act as an additional
guardship for their respective embassies.
The ambassadors will hold formal
meeting today in order to decide what
steps to take to put an end to the so-called
"shutfiing of the porte"
The impression prevails that If the
firmans are not very soon granted, the
extra gunboats will pass the Dardanelles
without the portes permission, even if
they have to be conveyed through by
battleships stripped for action.
Indeed, nobody here can see how the
powers can retreat from the position they
have assumed without serious loss of
prestige, especially as their demands are
based on treaty rights which are admit
ted by the sultan and his advisers. In
some quarters it is said that the sultan's
objection to granting the iirmans is
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do so with IMMUNITY.
A member of the diplomatic corps, to
whom the affair was submitted, said that
if the sultan actually thought there was
any material difference of opinion among
the powers he would do well to get rid
of that belief as soon as possible.
News from the interior of Asiatic Tur-
key is more difficult to obtain than for
long time past, although it is rumored
that Turkish operations against Zeitoun
have commenced. Another report says
that negotiations for the surrender of
Zeitoun are still progressing, with the
prospect of peaceful ending of the
disorder there. The main trouble
seems to be that the Armenians are
afraid to trust the promises of the Turks
that their lives would be spared if they
surrendered.
Missionaries say that in the outbreak
at Marash on November 10, many hun
dreds of people were killed and that all
school buildings were burned down by
the rioters.
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