The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-28

Z Boston, Dec. 2s.-A letter was received
IN Boston yesterday giving the latest in
/, formation concerning conditions in Har-
pOOt, Eastern Turkey. The writer says
That If those who are Interested and have
power and influence could once understand
in what condition the missionaries are,
and 10 what dcpIorabie condition the
people OF hundreds of. villages aud cities
are, they would surely be moved To prompt
action to save the people from denying
their faith, as many have already done to
save their lives, and to save their wives
and children from being torn from them.
Large numbers or them have been killed
who would not deny their faith, and In
many instances their wives and children
were taken and compelled by force and fear
OF death to accept tue other faith. This
pressure Is brought TO bear in every place
attacked. This must be true from what has
occurred In this city, where not IA few, when
confronted with the alternative of denying
their faith or death, have boldly declared
their faith and been instantly shot down or
butchered In cold blood. In this city two
Protestant preachers and one Syrian priest
were thus brutally murdered.
ALL WERE BUTCHERED.
At Ichmc, n large number OF people were
crowded into the Gregorian Church, with
them the aged pastor of the Protestant
Church. They were taken out one by one,
and whoever would not renounce his faith
and accept the other was shot down or
butchered. Finy-twO were killed. Good
pastor Kroker was killed, one OF the first
The Gregorian Church is turned into a
mosque, and tie Protestant Church is used
for stable.
At OoZon-Ova, a cross the Euphrates, some
were killed and a large lumber We're being
taken to u neighboring Turkish village to
be compelled to change their faith. While
on the way the road came near a river
and fifty-five or the number, in their des-
peration rushed into the river and were
drowned, rather than deny their faith and
meet a fate to them worse than death.
At Hob many were killed and wives and
girls taken into the houses OF the other
faith. In scores or villages piundered and
burned the people have met with like fate.
These two or three instances are examples
OF what has transpired throughout the
length and breadth of the country cast OF
Sivas. The attack was made on Novein-
Der IL.
TOWNS PLUNDERED.
The preacher of the town OF Peri. in the
Dersim region, has just arrived. His re.
port Is that the town or Peri and seventy
villages have been plundcred.
Paul Plain villages, ten or twelve i'll NUM-
Der, Were stripped of everything. Palu
WIS also plundered and many killed. In
the GcHhi and Tenran districts about
twenty-five village Were plundered. Under
threat OF instant death many have consented
to become Moslems. There seems to be a
general effort in this direction.
A letter was received in Boston yester-
day from Trebizond, on the Black Sea. The
rft mo-, a
That is the question a Sked by everyone
The writer has taken n list OF IS villages,
containing in all ! 800 Armenian houses,
every one of which, with one exception. was
robbed ami the greater part burned. and the
men. women and children. not less than
6, 900 souls, shot down md ciIt To pieces, or
driven off, or carried into captivity.