The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-04-18
Facts Have Been Verified by a
6 News Correspondent
REVOLUTION is RIPENING
The War Will Be Cue of Inc Fiercest In
Is. History
A Little Band Will Go Against Large Numbers.
but by Filibustering They May
Succeed

LONDON, April 1.-THE correspondent
IF the Associated Press, writing from
Armenia under date of March 18th, says:
Il 81 have travelled many hundreds Of
miles in Russia and Persia, and have
visited Armenian colonies as far east as
sthe Caspian and as far south as the city
of Teheran, and have learned, after the
most careful investigation and verification
iof the facts, that the Armenian question
will soon reach an acute and painful
crisis.
"In fact Armenia is preparing for war.
a The revolutionary party has now both
money and guns. During the past eight
weeks money has poured into the revolu-
tlonary treasury in steady stream from
the Armenian colonies in Batoum, Bitlis,
Baku, Erivan. Etchmiadzin and other
@places in Russia, and Resent Kazvin,
3Teheran, Tebrlz, Khoia and other cities
lin Persia The central idea of the plan
sof campaign is a general uprising of Ar
menians throughout the Turkish empire
Sometime during the month of May.
1.-THE leaders promise the people in the
I Eastern part of Armenia that the chief
ATTACK will be made in the city of Con-
Sstantnople itself, and that the brunt of
ahe fighting will be done by the Arme
hian residents therein, but this may be
Tonly a subterfuge to encourage the faint
/ fhearted at Van Btlis and Moush.
liz 1.-THE Armeniaus have at least 1000
4 Martini Henry rifles hidden in secret
kplaces in the mountains y short distance
ffroma Lake Van.
n For handful Of unframed Armenians
Ito deliberately begin q light with the
S300 600 regular troops of the Turkish EN-.
spire would seem to be folly too colossal
snot to bring Turkey to germs in fair
flight but to settle the quarrel by the in
ttervention of the European powers.
Before the revolution is three months
Void the powers it is believed. will be
scompelled to take hand in the con-
~ fict, for the cruelty, atrocity, the out
& srage, the blood-lust and butchery of the
%setruggle will be SO unthinkably horrible
fhat Christian humanity will intefere.
NArmenia, it then is hoped, may get her
freedom.
b For the most part the revolutionary
aArm enians who argue it is no worse that
IA few thousand Armenans should be
killed at one time than that they should
be killed separately during period of a
few months or years.
ITO what extent the plans of the revo-
7lutonary leaders are approved by the
armenian people at large, it is difficult
ito tell. | seriously doubt if those plans
care known in detail to more than five per
cent of the Armenians. Still there are
eStHulHe DuIIlOtS WIN DellcNe tudb W lTec
armenia from the dreadful depth to
switch she is sunk they must surrender
some of their fellow countrymen to tor
ture, outrage and death.
"a ''There is belief that Russia desires to
make the Armenians Russian subjects by
annexing the eastern end of Turkey.
Curiouslv enough this belief is not shared
by the Russians of the Caucasian region.
The Georgians certainly would resent any
further ircrease in the Armenian popula-
ton.
IS The business methods of the Armeni-
ans are not generally approved by Geor-
,-gians and Russians. 1t is therefore be-
1ieved it is likely that Russia wants the
.Armenians, but whether or not she wants
the Turkish territory which the Armeni-
ans inhabit, is quite another matter. For
sthe most part the average Armenian is
anxious to have some other man fight his
battles. and he is willing to believe Eng
land and Russia are only waiting for
rchance to come in and dismembsr the
Turkish Empire.
4 The Armenian newspapers in Russia
and Persia contain 10 hint, however re-
2mote, OF their preparations, but contain
only denunciations of Turkish tyranny
land demands for the enforcement of the
sixty-tirst artic e of the Berlin treaty.
THE lower classes are less discreet. In
Tifs especially they fill themselves up
with vodka and go about the streets
'clamoring for an Armenian king. AS
the time for the Armenian uprising APP
preached the words of the Armenian
Catholic. Mgr. Ghrmiran, have an added
Significance: Armenia is in sore dis
tress, but her sufferings will soon be at
an end.