St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-18
ARMENIA AISARM|NG
Matters in the Disaffected
Turkish Province Nearing
an Acute Crisis.
SEEKING BLOODY REVENGE
For the Horrible Outrage and
Butchery Of Peaceful
Peasants.
SEEKING BLOODY REVENGE.
EUROPE MAY INTERFERE.
Patriots Hope to Get Freedom
by Action Of the Pow
erS.

f(,onvr;ght. Associated Press, 1851
LONDON, April 1.-THE CORE
spondent of the Associated Press
writing from Armenia, under date
of March Is, says:
have Travelled many hundreds or
miles in Russia and Persia, anu
have visited Armenian colonies as
far east as the Caspian sea and
as far south as the city of Teheran'
and have learned, after the most
careful investigation and Verlnca-
tion of the facts, that the Armenian
uueEtion will soon reach an acute
and painful crisis.
In fact, Armenia is preparing for
war. The revolutionary party has
now both money and guns. During
the past eight weeks money has
poured into the revolutionary treas
ury in a steady stream from the
Armenian colonies in Batoum, Tifiis,
Baku, Erivan, Etchmiadzin and
other places in Russia, and from
Rescht, Kazvin, Teheran, Tebriz,
Ehoi and other cities in Persia.
How much money has been raised
no one knows except the leaders of
the revolutionary party themselves,
and they are disposed to keep their
affairs very quiet.
The central idea of the plan of
campaign is a general uprising of
Ar1nenians throughout the Turkish
empire some time during the month
of May. AP
The leaders have promised to peo-
pie in the eastern part of Armenia
that the chief attack will be made in
the city of
CONSTANTINOPLE ITSELF,
and that the brunt of the fighting
will be done by the Armenian resi-
dents therein, but this may be only
a Subterfuge to encourage the faint
hearted at Van, Bitlis and MouSh.
The leaders have even gone SO far as
to declare that the first attack will
be on the palace of the sultan, and
that the reign of Hamid will come to
sudden end. The younger Turks,
particularly those who have travelled
abroad, ardently wish that the pres
ent sultan was anywhere except on
the throne.
The Armeni'ans have at least 5000
Martini-Henry rifles hidden in secret
places in the mountains not a great
distance from Lake Van. For a
handful of unframed Armenians to
deliberately begin a fight with three
hundred thousand regular troops of
the Turkish empire is folly too
colossal for human conception; yet
! one must take into account the un-
derlying motives of the revolu-
tionary leaders before he passes
final judgment. The purpose is not
the bringing of Turkey to terms In
a fair fight, but to settle the quar-
rel by the intervention of the Eu-
ropean powers. Before the revolu-
t1on is three months old, the powers.
1t is believed, will be compelled to
take hand in the conflict, for the
cruelty, atrocity, the outrage, the
BLOOD-LUST AND BUTCHERY
of the struggle will be so unthink-
ably horrible that Christian human
ity will interfere. Then Armenia it
is hoped may get her freedom and
the Turkish empire may be torn limb
from limb and thrown piecemeal to
dts expectant neighbors. Thus there
is a possibility that Palestine, the
birthplace of Christianity, may at
last come into the possession of a
Christian nation.
For the most part, the revolu-
tionary leaders are of the younger
and more progressive generation of
Armenians, who argue that it is no
worse that few thousand Armen-
fans should be killed at one time
than that they should be killed sep
arately during period of a few
months or years.
To what extent the plans of the
revolutionary leaders are approved
of by the Armenian people at large
it is difficult to tell. seriously doubt
If these plans are known in detail to
more than 5 per cent of the Arunen-
fans. Still, there are genuine patriots
who believe that to free Armenia.
from the dreadful condition to which
she has sunk, they must surrender
some of their fellow-countrymen to
torture, outrage and death. On this
point l can do no better than quote
the significant reply of Mgr. Khrim-
ian, when questioned point blank
on the subject:
Judge not that ye be not Judged" >"
1t dlstresseS the venerable father
greatly even to think of the revo-
lutlonary plans, for he. is a good
man who has a great and tender
love for his people. 1t is his earnest
wish that the Russian government
Shall do something toward the mis-
cry or Armenia, and he has asked
permission to go to st. Petersburg
to make a personal
APPEAL TO THE CZAR,
This request has been refused.
What that may mean no one out
side of st. Petersburg can tell, be-
yond the supposition that the czar
does not wish to take any action un-
Sil the Turkish commission has had
a fair chance to show what It means
to do. There is a belief in Europe
that Russia desires to make the
Armenians Russian subjects by an
nexing the eastern end of Turkey.
Curiously enough. this belief is not
shared by the Russians Of the Cau-