The record-union., 1895-11-12
Massacres and Pillaging Continue
in Turkish Provinces.
WHOLE DISTRICTS DEVASTATED BY
THE MARAUDERS
An American Bark Cut Almost in Two
in a Collision With a Steamship or
Cape Henlopen, and Five OF Her
Crew Drowned-The Vessel Sank
Four Minutes After the Collision
Occurred. Bow First.

CONSTANTINOPLE Nov. 1.-THE
lawIessness of the Kurds in the eastern
provinces has grown measurably since
the demands for reforms were made
upon the Sultan by Great Britain,
France and Russia. The Sultan's very
evident inclination to refuse to grant
the demands, or at least to defer giving
a definite answer to the representa-
tiveso the Powers, encouraged the
Kurds to believe that the Sultan tacitly
supported them in their attacks upon
the Armenians. Color has been lent to
this belief by the action OF the Sultan in
giving good service decorations to sew
eraI cf those who were notOriously in
favor of exterminaing the Armenians,
and who gave their sanction to the mas
sacres that have led Turkey to the verge
OF dismemberment. The Kurds have
assumed such an attitude of disregard
to all authority that it is believed here
that the officials are now poWerless to
stop them from continuing their mas
sacring and pillaging.
Advices from the eastern provinces
show that the condition of anarchy is
such that & very strong force will have
To be made against the Kurds.. The
Porte apparently understands this fact
fer it is announced to-day that 10000
troops viii be sent against the kurds.
Should the latter offer resistance, it is
doubtful if even this force would be suf-
tiCiently strong to cope with the KurdS,
whose intimate knowledge of the
mountainous country would stand them
in good stead in opposing the Turkish
troops.
In spite of the bad financial condition
of the Government, which is now in
arrears in the pay of the reserves al
ready called out, it has been decided to
summon more of the reserves for serv-
ice It is doubtful if the Government S
scheme can be effected, owing to the
scarcity of money, but at any rate the
attempt will be made, owing 10 the con-
tinued demand of the Powers that the
Porte restore order forthwith.
Stories of the raVages committed by
the Kurds continue TO be received here.
1t is said that in ErZerOum and SiVas
whole districts have been devastated
by the marauding Kurds. A traveller
who has arrived at TrebiZOnd from
EreZerOum states that when he was
approaching Baiburt he met three hun
dred women, VINO in their extremity
knelt before him and implored protec-
ton, declaring that their husbands,
fathers and brothers had been killed
and there We're no males who could save
them from either dishonor or death.
The revolt of the Druies in Hauran is
assuming a most serious aspect. The
agitation against the authorities is ex-
tending, and the rebels are gaining
many accessiOns.
An official dispatch that has been
made public says that, thanks to the
energetic measures that have been
made by the imperial officers, the dis
turbances and revOlts which occur in
certain provinces Of Asia Minor. and
which had their origin in the seditious
inrigueS of Armenian agitatOrS have
been everywhere suppressed in all dis
tricts which were the the scene of riots.
Measures have been taken to insure
that peace will be maintained. It is
stated that Bahri Pasha will be n
pointed TO the command Of the troops
in the ZeitOun District Bahri Pasha
was formerly Vail of Van, but was dis
missed from that office in consequence
of the representations made by Sir
Philip Currie, the British EmbassadC"
that he was in a good measure respon-
sible for the CutrageS there. That his re-
mOVal was made against the inclna-
ton of the Sultan is a matter of COM
mon knowledge, and his majesty tooA
the earliest opportunity TO show that he
approved of his acts as Vail. A day or
SO ago Bahri was decorated by the Sultan
for the good services he had rendered
the Government, and now comes the
evidently we'll founded report that he
will be given an important command of
trops nOminally employed to protect the
ATmenianS.
y. Hampson, the British Vice-Consu!,
has appointed twenty persons to resume
the distribution of relief at SassOun.
LONDON, Nov 1-A dispatch to
the Standard from Constantin0ple
which will be published tomorrow,
says that the Sultan continues to be
much perturbed by the condition of af-
fairs in Arabia, which is the most vul-
nerable spot in the empire. News has
beer received of a conflict between
Turkish troops and Arabs near Zenha,
in which thirty men were killed. The
were compelled to debark at Port Said
and wait for five days, owing to a lack
of funds to pay the SueZ Canal dues.
LONDON, Nov. 11.-Mr. Dickson, the
British Consul at Jerusalem, has in
formed the Government that mob has
attacked the mission at NabIouS thirty
missionaries escaped, but some of their
servants were killed. The Hon. Nj. H.
Herbert, the British Charge d'Affair1s
at ConstantinopIe. as soon as he
learned of the affair." made a protest to
the Porte which at once telegraphed the
Vail at Jerusalem to protect the mis-
sionaries in every way.
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