Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-12-31
GELBGRAPHIC.
PLEA FOR ARMENIA.
pr,,,, Pushed tho Country Into the
TOuth Of He'll
,,UrnrS CELEBRATED CHRISTMAS
ria, I. the Way the Armenian Keller
Association Describes the pr'''
ent situation

x,w YORK, Dec. 8O.-In view Of
,,a ,,vslatlons as to the actual ponu'
Wv In Europe Influencing
.sa s,,s Of Armonians In Turkey, 'nS
'nD ,.n,on association today oAbled the
..ss. which follows to the London
n,lly Nows and rime'.
rhs Armenian Relief association To-
a,y,spl E3OJ to tho Duke Of We'imin'
',s,. making total Of $1,000, having
,soo,yod urgent appeals from the Lon
don committees.
nm. rsoclation will send LTD iundS
D.. a.. relief OF the sufferers from the
..a,,ne in Armenia through the iteu
n,'n.. soniety as soon ~ II IL assured
49, ~, ~ society will rssch the regionoi
,n,',ns 10 take the needed Telloi'
"ro Inc Editor OF the London Timss'
uFnrope pushep Armenia into the
...S,,, III hsIl anu turned TO celebrate
Tn,isimAs. II the continent powers
.assd 10 honor and conscience, can
s so forget iustlct2 Does sho not
saIisve in Almighty God, that che
a'ts for help before stopping zoe
''snis.als astassinhtion OF Christian
,',tni,tsrs and their fiocke, and The raw
,-ting N maidenA2 We send 900 "
gs'sysnor House committee. But
,,nst svalle food whom nre and sword
,is,minAtt? Shall we advise NJ
'nisn,s 10 aposlatize? Surely the
t,h ~ dad and the blessings OF
Cht,s, nave sill significance for the
nan Of England. Does Hhe no mere
s.rsct them 10 do their dutyI
Cbristlan America viii support Ens-
land. ,,,..,
UHrHANr KuCHJiAN, Gen. Sec.
armenian Relief Association"
A copy Of the foregoing was also
,.biei 10 the Daily News.
Inc Afmenian Relief association TO.
dav gave out tue following:
irbe direct Information received
frsn various parts Of Armenia de-
uiots 40 appalling n condition Of things
mat words cannot possibly COM
vsy the idea OF H.. However
rfsat the Offerings OF tne peag-
anlry, tho people OF the west may
pos,ibly approach an imagination OF
what the sniisfings must be OF people
who were living IN comparative peace
In cities like karput, DiRrbokir, bivns
ana Gutuna, and upon whom came
suddenly the unheard.Of calamity OF n
massacre initiated and contaminated
by the government that WAS to protect
them, Their men arc murdered OF
imprlaonsd {, their possessions are robbed
and their houses burned, and not only
are they exposed TO the teTrors vi
famine and the severe winter threat.
eulng to oxterminGto them, but even
meIoliul death Ia denied them, and
tho reign Of terror IL still upon the
land, arrests ana fortunes still contin
ulng, That the powers Of Europe IRE
not moved by any feeling Of human
ity in dealing with the Armeniau
question IL no more doubted, but 1t II
impossible for Us TO BELIEVE that the
conscience OF the English people viii
not ultimately be shaken from Its un.
pAraileled dullnsss anu do homer TO the
ancient name OF "England a. defend
~ Of the right anu the champion OF thu
oppressed"
Recent letters telling OF tho mhssR
oles In various cities contain items thu
help to explain many points IN tn,
outbreak OF sO.called MohammedaI
tanatloism.
A letter from TIeblEond, giving tn,
testimony OF m eyewitness, static;
Bahifa Pasha, governor OF VRp
started 10 come 10 ConslantinoplO, ant
It was learned no was bringing witt
him four Of the iairsst young Maiden
OfsassouAn, who had been spared IL
the massacre, TO make nm acceptable,
present OF them 10 his sultan. Thll
aroused tho Armenian people o
TtebiEond TO n frenzy II was impOs
sible 10 resist. Tho more daring Of th,
young men fired upon Bahira PAshi
when he was going about the city
wounding him. After he was cursl
he carried out his Internal mission 4
COnstantinople, and was honored will
the highest decoration and Appointel
governor OF AdanB, In spite OF tn
netyeless protest Of the ombAss. dors
Aiierward the pasha OF TFohizon1 dc
manded tho otieniers hut they coulS
not be found.
Tho pashR had already begun /,
communicate with the sultan by tele
graph, and, calling to the command
erh Of The SOLDIER, ordered them TO h
ready Mt O'Clock. When the maid
had arrived and the people went 10
ward the poit, both the soldiers an
ths mob rushed upon them. Men an
women were torn and murdered, an
the groans OF the dying could DO hear
everywhere. II was the most awful G
al the massacre.
News from Diarbekir reports un
u'lotable suffering among those well
to'uo short time ago. The same IL
formation comes from Guruna, wher
not an Armenian house has neen lei
standing where large communil
Nss TO be seen only n few weeks ago,
ThHt which causes tho grief OF th
Armenlans ia that numbers Of IN
young maiiens were taken to IN
harems Of the Kurds and Turks.