New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-04
CONSTANTINOPLE INVESTED.
4 PATRIARCHATE BESIEGED'
NO SUCH TERROR SINCE THE DAYS OF
THE GREEK REVOLUTION.
mn THE ARMENIANs FIRE F1RsT?-PRisoNhRs
KILLED IN COLD BIooD-ENGlIsH RE
yolvERs FoUND-K1AMlL PACHA TO sOO'
crrn SAID PAcHA AS GRAND vIzIER.

-'N''F'
c-rt,1 SAID PACIiA AS GRAND ViZlER.
Yoraon Oct a-"The standard" Will tomorrow
publish a dispatch from Constantinope Saying 'na'
on Wednesday a large number OF snops were ciose"
and the streets patrolled by the ponce Inc
whole city is virtually in e state OF siege Inc
d,snatch adds that a witness of the occurrence
-.o,.. that a respeetable-looking Armenian was
arrested by two gendarmes on Tuesday while walk
,nr in the Galata Quarter. When he protested
against being arrested the gendarmes Immediately
ripped his body open with their swords
The Armenian Patriarch received ie"er o''
Tuesday inviting him to call upon the Government.
rh letter stated that none OF his followers would
fe nern,Itted to accompany him. The Patr.arch,
therefore declined accept the invitation anu
remains at the patr,rrchate where ne Is sn"' III
with several hundred armed Armenans Inc ON
claIs visited the patriarchatc and sumho"eu us
occupants to surrender, giving them until o CLOCK
Wednesday afternoon TO comply. after which tme'
~ thew did not surrender the building would De
stormed The dispatch further says tha' al 'he
time mentioned the police surrounded 'he ou''one
and prepared carry out their threat 10 s'oii H.
II appears that the police generally were hot sup
nlied with ball cartridges They were instructed 10
Use the fats Of their swords and the QUITS VI inc"
yiaes Such provocat!on they gave in the hrst
instance was verbal. The Arnenians hred nrst.
With the exception Of the massacre OF 'he PRISONERS,
the most violence was committed by the Sol'as am
MOssemS
ever appears 10 have been arrested or otherwise
.o.L.d 1,oubt;ess the Armenians will be made TO
nav dear:y for the outburst. but. having provoked
,er-sa. II will be difficult for the Powers to INT r-
IT..
Great CONSERVATION prevails at the Palace The
Sultan has not been in bed since Monday IL IL teN
that a crisis has arrived. No such terror mas pre-
vailed since the Greek revolution.
Constsrt,nople Oct. 3.-The reports that AT
r,enians who were arrested for taking part IN Mon
DAYS and Tuesdays rioting were Killed aiter peiiis
taken into custody have been Conhrmeu' 1t IL
known 10 a certainty that five OF the prisoners were
SO killed. and It would excite no surprise to hear
that others met their death in the same manner
Eye-wltnesses Of the rioting say that the Ar
nnenians did not discharge their firearms until MAJOR
servat Bey ordered the police TO fire upon them.
Turkish officials view the troubles as being the
direct outcome OF the agitation in Europe especiahF
in Great Britain, in favor of the Arneniahs as
against the Turks
The foreign diplomatis,s here met to-day At the
Austrian Embassy and held a conference on the
situation.
The Armenians in the employ of the Porte. as
poon as they realized the gravity Of the rot, neo
from the city being afraid that the Government
would treat them as traitors They all returned
to-day however with the exception Of Artym
Pacha secretary of the Foreign Ministry, who is
accused OF being in sympathy with the Armenian
revolutionists.
Berlin Oct 3.-The Constantinope correspondent
OF THE Tageblatt" teegraphs that while the
struggle between the Armenians and the police was
the most violent two dragomans from the Brltishh
Embassy drove up ana down in carriage through
,hs s,oyd II was ~ spaeSy nfoTme q he
happenngs AS were the police. who arrived on the
scene al the same time as did the dragomans The
correspondent adds that 1900 entirely new revovers
OF English manufacture, all being OF me sam sam
in possession of the prisoners and in the streets In
which the rioting took place.
London Oct 3.-A dispatch from Constantinopie
under the date Of October 2. says:
The roting which prevailed here on Monday was
renewed last evening when the Softas chased ana
attacked with Sudge9ns & eyery apardr Of the cy
killing nifty OF them during me nlgnt me % ool l,aS
also attacked Gafe in which lien n teeTe tSe %erT The fg
tive Armenans taking refuge In the churches
The clergy are unTng In tneid eopIS 20 aosf
continuously
dispatch from Constantinope to the Central
News SAYS it is oicay announcsa th1f h1am
The return to power OF Kiamil Pacha Is one more
proof OF the desire Of Sultan Abdul Hamid to con-
,ui,te the Christian Powers Kiam is known
an "anglophile": he showed himself TO be so when
he was Grand Vizier office which he had to re-
sign in 1891 account of the partiality he evnced
in favor of English claims and complaints On the
contrary, Said Pacha. the late Grand Niz.er, had
constantly opposed policy Of non possumus. or
rather Of temporisation and inertia to the re-
quests addressed to the Porte by England, Russia
and France for better protection of the Ar
menians. The riots at Constantinople have induced
the Sultan practically to show through an I'M
portant change in his Ministry that he anxious
to work in concert with the Powers toward sup
pressing those riots and the causes which had been
used as a pretext to incite them.
II cannot he overlooked. however. that the con,
duct Of the Armenian revoutonists has influenced
the governments Of Russia. France and Eng
diplomatic efforts in favor of the prosecuted
people of Asia Minor; The publishing in the
IS known as "the red list" containing the
names of persons sentenced by the secret Armenian
by the poniards Of assassins. coupled with such
open revolt as the mentioned by the cable dis
policy Of coercion toward the Sultan. After having
uselessly presented him memorandum. and threat
ened no less unsuccessfuly 70 send commission Of
their TO Armenia. they reported
which Will brng about II Is to be hoped. the pun
ishment of the prosecutors Of the Armenlans and a
Meanwhiie they VIII reirain from pressing too
harshly Abdul Hamid who has 10 face in his own
capital the same revolutionary spirit which causes
also great alarms AT Berlin. Vienna ana Paris:
The cable dispatches do not state who is the
Patriarch who tried IN vain to prevent the Cor
stantinope riot There are in that city the Patriarch
pf the Armenian orthodox Church. MOnsignOr
Ismirkian: and Of ne Armenian Catholics, Mon
sisnor Azavian. Neither Of them wields and infu-
ence over the revolutiOnist sectarans Of their ma
them as traitor to the Armenian cause. There
f no foundation for such charge but The troubles
Church of Koumkapan. at Constantinople. showed
that there were sometimes regrettable msundcr-
Quite recently Monsienor Azarian received the visit
OF an Armenian, who notihed him that he was
Committee. and that his lfe would be spared II he
paid sum Of 1000 Turkish livrcs to the fund OF
yercy ye of his visitor who eXhbted revolver and
ne signed rpon London firm the required check.
which was soon after cashed at bank IN the fau-
bourg Of GSlata.