The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-12-26

why should we prOtcct the GiaourS?
let them be killed
The governor Of No'atia tale-
graphpd here that 1000 Nu.dS had
come there and that he could nOr cope
with them. That threw the RESPONSE
Oility upon the HarDOOt government.
The leading men Of Arabkir went TO
the governor and asked fer protection.
They were treated with contempt.
These disturbances could not have
happened if strong orders had been
sent to tie governor generals to pre-
serve order at my cost. The terror
and distress in the devastated villages
car scarcely lie pictured. Those who
escaped with their lives have been
stripped of everything else with Win
ter just at their doors. The whole
thing was definitely planned and ar
ranged. The Christians had given up
their arms and cas- themselves on
the protection of the government. No
Christian fred on the aSSailants. The
missionaries took refuge in the girls
school until that was attacked and
the mission house of Rev. O. i. Allen
and wife was burned and the school
set on fire. Then they gathered in The
yard. prepared to die. Or. Barnum
spoke to the military commander ard
he sem soldiers. but only two re-
NAMED 10 protect the missionaries
and tho~ do~""-TrI Mono "~v
would go away as their comrades had
done. The missionaries decided to go
into the college building. AS they
left the school yard a Turk fired upon
them from across the yard twice,
first at Mr.. Allen and then at Rev. G.
Frank Gates, but he was a very bad
marksman and no me was hit. They
are now protected"
Islam or Death.
COnStantinOple, Dec. Il. - Reports
from the interior Of Turkey say the
ArmGnians are offered the choice of
islam or death. At Marash an Armen-
ian who was ordained an Anglican
clergyman, refused the choice. and
was killed by slow torture. At Khar-
pOOt two prOtestantS preached and
were murdered for the same cause.
At Achme fifty-two persons died as
martyrs to their religion. At Ouzoon
a large number of ArmenianS were
captured and led to q neighbOring
Turkish village. where they were or
dered TO change their faith. Fifty of
them rushed into the Euphrates and
were drowned. the Turks shooting
them while they were in the water.
At Hob eighty-fve were killed. This
day the British vice consul at Van de-
scribes the condition Of the Armeni-
ans there as being too appalling for
words. Thousands of women and
girls are wandering through the snow
piled in the streets without shelter or
food and barefoot. their ravishers only
having left them n chemise, and some
Of them only a cloth to v their ma
kedness. An eyewitness of the bar
barity Of the massacre at Kaisarich
on Nov. 80 says that men and women
were literally hacked to pieces to the
number Of several hundred. Some of
the Turks say that a thousand were
killed. Saturday afternoon several
thousand fierce fellows came from the
villages in the vicinity. Many wo-
men We're abducted. The troops could
have squelched the business If they
had desired to do so.
Berlin, Dec. PA dispatch from
Constantinople to the Frankfurter
Zeitung says: The porte has ordered
Mustapha Remzi Pasha to attack to-
day with 10000 men and two batteries
the city Of Zeitoun. and to lombard
and destroy it and to massacre the
1900 Armcnians in the city.
COnstantinople. Dec. 22.-An official
dispatch from Zeitoun says that the
Armenians on Sunday lasA massacred
all the Turkish soldiers imprisoned in
the town. This probably refers to the
400 Turkish troops who were captured
by the Zeitounlis when the uprising
first occurred. although it has been an
nounced that all the soldiers. except
nine, who were dead, had been re-
leased.