The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-11
p1LLAGING STILL coNrIN UEs.
There is a Great Deal of suffering Am na
 the Armenians.

There is Great Deal of suffering Am ng
 the Armenians.
 London, Dec. 10-A Central News dis patch from Rome says that General Baratieri, governor of Erytheria, and commander of the Italian troops, tele- graphed this evening that fully seventy thousand Abyssinians have invaded the Tigre country and are besieglng Max ale and AntoIo. Forty thousand of the enemy are in the vicinity of Adowa. Consequently he has ordered the Ital- ian force at Adowa to fall back to Adj grat, where he has only 5000 men, Up- on the receipt of the foregoing dispatch the goverenm5n ordered that the prep aration for sending endorsements to General Baratieri be pushed forward with the greatest possible dispatch Work in making ready ill sending troops to Africa will be carried on night and day. It has been decided that 5000 troops and two batteries shall depart immediately -very available trans port at the dock yards has been ordered to be put in readiness to convey troops. Some warships will accompany the re- Inducements to Massowah, the capital of the Italian colony.
 The government decided this after noon to postpone until Saturday the re. quest that the chamber vote a credit of 500O,00O lire to be expended in carry ing war operations in Abyssinia.
 Constantinople Dec. 10.-The sultan has issued an trade permitting the ex- tra guardships demanded by the pow CTS to come to Constaninople. It is stated that the losses sustained by the misa?onaries~at Marash by the destruc- tion of their property during the riot ing there amount to 2,400,000 pounds Turkish
 The rumor is revived that the Ar menians here are preparing to make a fresh demonstration in view of what they term the apathy of the powers in bringing about cessation of the masSacres.
 It is rumored that several superior military officers, including Ismel Pasha, one of the sultan's household, and Hassan Djemi Pasha, an aide-de-camp of his majesty, have fled from the city it having reached their ears that they were suspected of connection with the Young Turkey, which is agitating in favor of a constitutional government Before leaving the British embassy Said Pasha requested the sultan to grant him permission to leave the country with his family.
 Reports continue to arrive showing that the pillaging and burning of Ar menian villages in Anatolia, especially in the vilayet of Van, is going on as though the sultan had issued no or ders to the authorities to stop it.
 The peasants are suffering terribly and their misery is increased by the bitted cold now prevailing in that part of the country Large numbers of them are wandering, without food and with scanty clothing, on the moun- tains seeking to escape from the Kurds, who hunt them as though they were wildbeasts.
 Impartial accounts that have reached here contradict the stories that the Armenians provoked the disorders and declare that the massacres were the result of skilfully arranged plans to ob- literate the Armenians. The massacres have chiefly occurred in the vilayets for whom the reform scheme was recently wrung from the sultan.
 Major Williams and Major Bulman the newly appointed British vice con- suls at Van and Sivas, will start for their posts tomorrow.
 A new batch of revolutionary pla- cards was posted to-day. They were most numerous in the Kassim Pasha quarter.