New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-10
"CHRISTTAN POWERS SIT BY"
HOW ARMENIANS VIEW THEIR DEPI.OR-
ABLE SITUATION.

HOW ARMENIANS VIEW THEIR DEPLOR-
ABLE SITUATION
WAS SHAKER PACHA RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
| ERzERorM MASSACRE? FORCING ISLAM
UPON THE INrIMrDATED-"wE ARE NOT
so MUCH IN NEED OF HEAVY GUNS
AS or MORAL FORCE"
Boston Dec. s.--Many letters have been re-
ceived in this city from Armenia describing the
horrors of the recent massacres. One letter,
from which the following is taken deals with
the outrages committed in Erzeroum on
| Wednesday, October 30:
Strong guards have been patroiiing the streets
| curly 70 the people A party of soldiers smashed
in the door of house, and: after batterins and
terrifying poor woman and her children almost
to death-her husband was in the market-they car
ried off all the goods as plumber one soldier re-
turned to take away two three small articles
that Rad been eft. and he took occasion to say TO
the woman: why do you cry? DO you suppose
for nothing? We guarded you FOR this day"
1t is estimated that there are between 200 and
say that half of III, m have been pundered OF all
their contents In one rich mans house piano ian
hacked to pieces with The number Of Ar
s OF o woud hap rf eos Ge
shops remaining intact SO that the number OF
shops pundered must be somewhat between Low
The business almost entire IN the hapds
there are more than 200 shops large and small In
the hands OF Turks and these would Include meat
Will probably have reserve enough to live on. The
remainder will be reduced TO the greatest straits
to-day on the bread distributed by the Government;
which 1t began to do the third day after the mas
sacre.
The massacre was in the hands Of the two n n,
Tious sasso0n butchers, Co.'s smail hey ana ZEN IL
his under-officers, and his fears, were great Be
sides he took great personal afront that none
roum OF, called on him afierward .,.,.u
ne ana not give the direct order ne dn h9 Pnnmg
Pacha who is spoken well Of cannot be held re,
time. and, Of course was under the orders of shakr
Pacha; Shakir Pacha proceeded to Khanoos os-
reported hat a tha dct 1' IS ss wh Kud
| and that the Christians have suffered terribly
SOME HUMANE TURKS.
Many Turks protected their Christian nelghbors.
One wonders a. this. because OF the universally
threatening attitude Of the Turks previous to the
massacre. Some did this out of friendship for the
individuals thus protected One family of Turks liv
ing In an Armenian quarter protected the houses Of
three Christian neghbors and enthusiastically joined
the soldiers in plunderng the rest of the street.
As offset to this attempts being made to
terrfy the Armenans into signing papers declaring
that they We're responsible. Turkish official pro-
teced the Armenian houses in the quarter where he
resided After the massacre ne sent word TO the
Armenian residents Of the quarter that he had done
so. and 1t had cost him s25. which it would be we'll
for them to make good to him. This they did. Then
he took another step. lie sent word around again.
saying that in order establish safety 1t would be
necessary Tor the residents TO prepare paper set
ting forth that they were responsible for the revou
begged for clemency. He added the threat that the
guns OF the city were ready. He himself would
and in a very short time the whole quarter would
be laid IN ruins and the inhabitants slaughtered
The following letter received in Boston
this morning from an American in Constantine
pie describing the situation there and in the
interior Of Turkey:
Happily can be kept alive In these regions
on two cents day But we are troubled to get
the money All the merchants are ruined. that
drafts can no longer be cashed. We are now trying
actual gold into the interior For efectua relief
1t Is necessary for the United States Government
to take official protection OF the men who dstrb-
ute It.
ARMENIANs EMBRACING ISLAM
Reports from the interior show that people have
already persisted from starvation. In the time
the Turks trying to force the survivors to be-
come Mahometans. They offer aid on this condi-
ton A letter from native in Harpoot says that
in one group Of villages 800 Armenlans have en-
braced Islam.
We not much In need OF heavy guns as OF
moral force. For example, the Marblehead In the
harbor OF Marsha, has. without doubt; prevented a
massacre OF the Christians In that district. The
ignorant Turks do not know what she is there for
but they readily believe that her guns are big
enough TO reach Adana and her searchlight strong
enough to discover I'm the darkest night any evil that
Is being done Meanwhile, the fleets OF the Pow
ers remain at anchor, their moral force expended
upon the Sultan, who has learned. from long expe-
Renee the harmessness Of their threats
The following letter is from correspondent In
Western Turkey, who writes to Boston.ans con-
corning the situation as it appears to Armenians
More than 10000 widowed women. dishonored
brides fatherless children. n1rm and feeble people
skilled artisans without tools farmers without fields
to till and merchants without goods to sell, are
now crying to Heaven for pity; thousands having
roof to then. friends left to afford them
shelter are wandering in the hills and forests and
dying every day by And the blood of
martyrs Is crying for vengeance apparently in
The other day the town of Bardezag was moved
to Its centre by the services connected with the
mueteer OF this town while going to a neighbor-
ing village, foully murdered by Turks Some
in search Of the body. They found that the head
had been severed from the trunk. The trunk
that they could recover nothing Of it for burial
They secured the head from which the lower law
ana TN the mes we're missing ana brought 1t home
soldiers in the coffee-house sat drinking and
hundreds. of places But the Christian nations Of
the world do nothing.
The Christian Save the markD Powers sit by.
sucking their thumbs and pretending to believe that
the poor slaughtered sheep whose blood is sweet to
the taste, are responsible for the ravenous appetite
Russia long since had placed herself beyond the
pale OF conscience bearing nations and England
has yielded herself to the counsels of those who
obey the god of the world; even America has
instrumental in arousng to thoughts Of higher
things have been driven as sheep 70 the slaughter
Have conscience and all feeling of humanity gone
American Christi9nitvo