The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-23
SULTAN VERY ACTIVE
That Is. He Issues Orders for
Restoration OF Order.
BUT THE TURKS GO ON KILLING.
The Embassies Permitted TO Have More
Dispatch Bosts-A Mass Meet
ing I'm Boston.

Cons,antinople. Nov. 22-The sultan has
offered rewards for the arrest OF the per
sons VINO recently posted placardS a. the
mosques and IN many other pubic places.
exciting the Armenlans against the Mus
suimans. A special committee has also
been appointed 20 watch day and night
until adequate results are obtained N the
restoration OF order among the Armenians.
The general situation III. this country
continues TO excite the gravest fears.
kilograms received here from Marash
late yesterday. apparently consider
ably delayed by Turkish officials, say
that American and other missionaries
are again IN the greatest danger.
Adyices from Sivas assert that as soon as
re.nforcements OF Turkish troops arrive
the Turkish officials viii notify the A.
nIenians thar they must surrender all arms
and ammunition. The ArmenianS object,
as this would place them at the mercy Of
the Turks To this the Turks reply that
no harm viii be done 70 them as long. -
they do not resist authority. and that il they
refuse 10 give up their arms they will De
forced 20 do SO. II is asserted that the
Turkish officials added that If they are not
satisfied, and the arms and ammunition
surrendered, the troops viii be ordered 20
attack the Armenians. Officials OF the dip
lomattc corps point 10 the fact that as the
Mussulmsns or SivaS are not 10 be dis
armed, the projected measures against
the AFmenians have created a danger
which may have the gravest consequences
The concentration Of Turkish troops at
MaTash continues as rapidly as possible.
The Turkish commander al Marash con-
tinues negotiations with the Armenians al
Zeitoun. holding out all sorts OF promises
for their surrender. but the Armeniaus
have been so frequently deceived that they
spprehend a wholesale massacre II they
lay down their arms. The representatives
or the powers have notified the porte that
;hey will not answer for the consequences
II the Ze!tCun Armenians are mastered.
The Argnenians OF This city say surprise
Tor the Turks Is being prepared a. Ze.tOIn.
and battle. which will show that the Ar
menlans are entitled % freedom or a. least
self-g0Eernment. viii De f9uglt there. As.
however. the ArmcniAns are deficient IN
artillery. q cannot b. expected that hey
viii offer effective resistance % a esularly
organized expedition.
Report Of riots az Safnsoun. a seaport %
Asa Minor. on the Black SEA. has also
reached here. The few Armenlans there
are certain 70 fare badly Il trouble has 0c-
Cured
Twenty villages have been burned ina the
northwestern portion OF The district %
Aleppo. and the Inhabitants massacred-
The kurds are gathering Oh the borders II
t.iH .AtNrf tAAAAAA 90 thaAA+A Atatt
syria for Tie purpose OF msseacr.ng the
Christians
sofa. Bulgaria. Nov. 2e-Advices from
Ccustantinople say the sultan has con-
scented % a.9w the passage through the
Dardanei.es 81 a second guardsh!p for
eacn power. IN accordance with the re-
quests Of the Austrian. Italian, Russian
and British representative.
Boston. Nov. Representative citizens
met in Fsneui hail today 10 discuss The
Armenian situation and urge that aid be
gwen 20 the sufferers IN that country de-
pr.ved OF homes and other property by the
atroc.ous kurds and Turks. Robert Treat
Paine president u the American Peace
Society. presided. Among the speakers
were Rev. Cyrus Hanlin. ID. D.. Right
Rev. William Lawrence. bishop of Massa-
chusetts; Rev. +. l.. Clark, president Of
the United Society Of Christian EndeavOr:
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Gov. Greenhalgs
and Hogop Pog.an, Of the Armenian re-
lief committee. Samuel b. Capen, Of the
Boston school board, presented strong reso-
lutions, which were adopted.
The preamble Of the resolutions sets forth
that during the last year and a half the
ancient feud between Moslems and Chris
t.ans has broken out with terrific force in
all parts OF the Turkish empire: that evil
dence shows that the responsibility rests
largely with the sultan's government,
whose authorized agents have been fore
most in plundering and numbering the de-
fenseless Armenians. and tat the vio-
lence has now extended to the persons and
property OF resident American citizens
scrupulously obeying the laws of that
land. The resolutions express unquali-
fed condemnation OF the Turkish govern
ment and extend the deepest sympathy 20
the Christian people Of the empire, who.
having survived the mass3cres. are now
Of at haR3nntuQr NJ int NTH
shelter. food or clothing and who may be
still in hourly expectation Of surrendering
their lives 10 the rapacious Kurds or the
fanatical Turks, and I'm behalf of the
survivors we call upon the people OF New
England 10 sustain the Armenian
70 the committee upon the assur-
ance that whatever Is entrusted 10 them
VIII he duly acknowledged and prudently
expended" Continuing, they say: Re
solved. That we approve the project OF
Administrative reforms submitted by Great
Britain 10 the powers. and only regret that
they have been so long in their fruitless
effort TO come 20 an understanding, and
Resolved. That We commend the y!gor-
Gus efforts Of our government 10 guard
American Interests IN Turkey and we ap-
precate cordially the firm attitude Of our
minister az Cons,anunople, who has evil
IDENTIFY done All in his power 20 protect his
countrymen from the manifold perils to
which they sre exposed"
Vienna. Nov. PA conference which
has taken place between SIR Philip CurriA,
British ambassador 20 Turkey, Count Gu
loChOwski. Austrian minister for foreign
affairs. and Gen. Nigra. Italian ambassador
at the Austrian cour., has tended greatly
go Increase the feeling here. The alarming
reports Published by The kreuz Ze!tuns
on She subject u a Russian intrigue 10
d. ach Germany from the triple alliance
NEE, Wtth no credcnce. \ feeling Of SYM
pathy with the sultan Is again beginning
to show itself. and the crisis. outWardly
a. least. IS becoming less acute.