The Dickinson press., 1895-12-14

himself not only to be In danger Of
arrest, but fearing for his life.
Referring to sensational statement
regarding the assembling Of a Russian
saaed:s6n OH sebastopoi it was semi.
officially stated here this afternoon
that for years past the Russian Black
sea fleet has been under orders to be
l prepared for active service at any
moment. Therefore, 1t IL added there
Is nothing new in the situation. More
over. 1t is pointed out, a full under
standing has been established between
the powers in regard to the situation
In Turkey, and no apprehension exists
of any power taking Independent
action.
To Help the SUFFERING.
Boston, Dec. IA special meeting Of
the prudential committee of the Amer.
lean board was held this afternoon for
the purpose of requesting the Red
Cross society. of which Clara Barton,
of Washington. is president, to under
take relief work in Turkey, rs an in
ternatiOnal organization. A formal re-
quest was adopted and will be for
Warded to Miss Barton ut once.
1t ia believed by those advocating
the step that the organization being
international in its character, is the
one which can successfully administer
Americas relief contributions in Tur-
key. a relief ship, under it's auspices
would be allowed to enter where the
Tears of the Turkish government would
allow no European warship to go. The
Red Cross treaty in itself recognizes
only relief in war, yet America, in
making up its own national body,
asked of the international board the
power to work in great national and
international calamities the same us
In wal, and the privilege was granted.
Thus America has by every privilege
the right to act in Turkey, and Eu-
ropean countries, If they wish, can dis
tribute their relief through the United
States Red Cross organization. The
fact that Turkey belongs to the Red
Cross organization will favor its super
vision of the relief work in the Tur-
kish empire.
Turkey Must Give In.
MI. Gladstone has written to the
sociation as follows:
Il still hope In the i%ndisposition Of
the powers to make themselves utterly
ridiculous before the world"
The Daily News has q dispatch from
Constantinople which will be pub
lished tomorrow to the effect that the
embassies have unotticially informed
the sultan that If the firmans for the
extra guardships are refused, the OAR
danelles will be forced by the powers.
The same correspondent says: '.The
Venel press here co%ngratulates the
sultan upon the success of his reforms
and of his repressive measures, but
If the massacres diminish, is merely
because victims are lacking. To-days
is that 200 Armenians were
killed in Kaisarych (C~aesarea).
The Times tomorrow will print a
dispatch from Constantinople which
sa!s that the embassies have received
instructions from their respective gov
ernments that the guardships question
must be pushed home and that it IL
impossible for the powers to retire
from the positions which they have as
sumed.
Memphis, Tenn, Dec. 1O.-The rela-
tives Of Mrs. Helen Register Bliss,
who resides in Memphis, are in re-
ceipt of a letter relative to the Ar
menian wars. Mr.. and Mrs. Bliss are
native M~emphisans, and are connected
with the American Bible society In
Constantinople. Mrs. Bliss says:
I'VE are having an anxious time
here and know not what to expect. At
HarpOOt all but four of missionary
houses have been destroyed and these
were looted. At Erzeroum 10000 Ar
menians were killed in less than ten
days. There is no doubt that all these
outrages are committed with the sane
ton Of the sultan. The Bulgarian mas
sacles were but a drop in the bucket.
OF course there was the same fiendish
cruelties at that time, but not to be
compared with this in extent. Over
100000 Armenians have been butch.
cred. mostly men leaving women and
children in awful poverty, with Win
ter upon them. None of the ambassa-
doris have recommended their COM
munities to leave the city and that
gives us hope that we will he SAFE"
Massacres Continue.
Constantinople, Dec. 1O.-Authentic
details have now been received of the
Sivas massacres. They show that the
slaughter legan ON Nov. - and con-
tinued for a week following. 1t is
known that 1900 Arnenians and ten
Turks were killed before there was q
cessation of the bloody work.
The manner of the outbreak Is de-
scribcd as follows: Suddenly, at noon,
rs If by a preconcerted signal. the
Turkish soldiers and police. the Cir
cassians, and even the laborers and
Moslem women and children rushed
into the market under command of the
officers. All were armed. the laborers
with tools OF clubs or anything they
could secure that could be used as an
offensive weapon.
They attacked and looted the Ar
menian shops and purs ued with re-
lcntless fury the occupants. who
seemed helpless with surprise at the
~suddenness of the onslaught. Many
merchants and clerks were killed and
their bodies stripped.
AS the importing business was al.
most exclusively in the hands of the
Armenians. financial disaster must
overtake Sivas when the fury Of the
storm of blood and greed has sub
sided A high official. in a position to
know. declares that the massacres
were the deliberate act of the sultan's
vengeance for having been compelled
" SINtlt Nuc ISlOIlIlS III <1IAlCuld Ut
handed by the powers.
It is asserted that the kaima kan Of
Guerrin, where there are 5000 Ar
menians, telegraphed to the vail Of
6ivas: "Yau can res assured that
there is not an Armenian left in
Guerrin. They resisted the butchers
and they suffered the worst for it."
The expulsion and removal of the
Armenians from ConstantinOple and
from the Vilayets continues by whole
sale. All the Armenian monastaries
in the vicinity of Erzingjan have been
pillaged. The massacre there occurred
after the Armepians had been dis
armed and Seokki Pasha had faithful
ly promised to protect them.
At the village of Pasuan. near En-
| zingjan. the Kurds and Turks attacked
a crowd of Armenians who had taken
refuge in the Armenian church and
killed forty of them. Altogether 400
/ were killed and 500 were wounded In
the Erzingjan district.