The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-27
CONDITION OF TURKISH AFFAIRS.
Matters Becoming Quiet After an I'm.
meneo Loss of LILO and T.easure.

Matters Becoming Quiet After an I'm.
menee Loss of Lifo and T%foasure.
CoNsrANrINoPLE, Nov. go -Now that
matters seem to be- quleting down again
here and in the Asiatic provinces, peo.
pie are beginning to form estimates Of
the mount Of damage done and the
number OF lives lost during the recent
disturbances. Well informed Arme-
mans estimate the losses through the
events which have just taken place in
A~nstolia alone ut IS, 900, 600 and the
lumber of victims at 1000.
These are Armenian estimates, but
there seems to be good reasons to believe
that the property destroyed, the num-
Der OF lives sacrificed and the outrages
committed are far beyond anything
heretofore estimated or described. But
this Is not all. People competent to
pronounce an opinion on the subject say
that there will be . great many more
deaths on the coming of winter.
Famine Is threatened in q number of
districts and there seems to be no way
OF preventing it. The powers instead Of
ordering their fleets away from Turkish
waters az the sultan earnestly requests,
seem to be determined upon keeping
them In this vicinity for an indefinite
period.
II UOl llJH VI Lu6 bClGl5u m6ulIdEEdH-
can fleet, it is reported, will soon leave
Salonica Bay for Smyrna, where the
powers are massiDg their fghtiag ships.
Warships of Great Britain expected to
rendezvous at Smyrna this week, will
consist Of nino b,ttleships. four cruis-
ers and four smaller ships. Italy's flag
floats from two bstileships, two cruis-
ers and four small craft in the waters
OF Smyrna.
Russia has two cruisers on the way to
Smyrna in addition to o powerful feet
cruising in the western portion OF the
Black Sea. The United States will be
represented at Smyrna by two cruisers
and Germany has one small gunboat
there, but il is rumored that two Ger
man battleships are on their way there.
Austria, off Smyrna, has one battleship,
two cruisers and two small g%unboats.
OF course, lhis is not a naval dem
onstration;" 1t is simply the
ton of the foreign fleets st "a port agreed
Upon, apparently, between the powers.
No progress has been made in the mat-
ter OF application to the porte of repre-
sentatives of Great Britain, Russia,
Italy and Austria for PERMISSION for the
passing through the straits of the Oar
danelles and into the Bosphorus of an
extra gunboat, to at "a IN additional
guardship for their respective embaS-
sies.
The impression prevails that K the
hcmans are not very soon granted the
extra %gunboats will pass the Dards-
nelles without the porse's permission,
even IL they have to be conveyed
through tie batsleships stripped for &C
ton.
Indeed nobody here can see how the
powers can retreat from the position
they have assumed without serio IS loss
OF prestige. especially as their demands
arc based on treaty rights, which are
admitted by the sultan and his advis-
ers. In some quarters it is said that the
sultsn's obj &C ton tn granting the ir-
mans is really caused by his belief that
he can do so with impunity in view OF
the objection raised by Russia to Aus
tria's proposal on the subj cs, and that
this constituted a difference of opinion
among the powers.
A member of the diplom attic corps, to
whom this view of the effa air was sub
mltted, said that il the sultan actually
thought there was any material diff Or
ence OF opinion among the powers
he would do we'll to get rid of tn at
belief % soon as possible.
News from the interior of Asiatic
Turkey is more difficult to obtain than
for G long time past, although it is
rumored that Turkish operations
against Ieitoun have commenced. An
other report says that negotiations for
the surrender OF Zsitoun are still pro.
crossing with the prospect of a peace
full ending OF the disorder there. The
main trouble seems to be thai the Ar.
menians are afraid to trust the prom
ises of the Turks that their lives will
be spared II they surrender.
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