The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-13
Turks and kurdS Pouring Into
COnstantinople Laden
WITH LOOT FROM ASIA MINOR.
They Hope for a Massacre and Sack
of Armenians at Stamboul.
News From Armenia Increases in Hor-
ror With Every Mail Massacre and
Pillaxe OF Daily OccurI euce-R Refu-
gees Perishing From Hunger.

? London. Dec l2-The Daily News will
tomorrow publish a dispatch from Con-
stsntn0ple. which says: For days past
Turks and kurds have been pouring into
the city from the devastated regions OF
Asia Minor. Their primary object is the
disposal Of the loot which they have oh
tanned during the massacre. They are al
SO hopeful of a richer harvest in the event
of the permitting Of a rising al STEAMBOAT.
Their stories. coupled with the display OF
plunder, have iniiAmed the lowest class
Of M0slems with an aching desire 20 at
tack the bazaars. They are ready 10 seize
upon the slightest provocation for an at
tack.
1T Is unwholesomely significant Of the
state OF affairs that the government Is
seizing and deporting daily numbers of
ATmenians from the poorest, but robust
classes.
'''The news from the interior increases
IN horror with every mail. In places with
In small distance massacre and pillage
are stiu OF daily occurrence, and every
where destitute Armenians are fiocking in
10 the large towns. where there is no
means of feeding them. No news has been
received from Zeitoun. and none is ex-
pected until all the Zeitounlis have been
Killed The district swarms with bashi-
bazouks. and every road and bridge is
guarded with troops
dispatch addressed to the Asso-
Ci2ted Press and signed '-Armen-
ians Of Constantinople has been re-
celNed here. II says: Armenia is at her
last gasp. The number of people mas
sacred reaches 1Oo0a. and half a million
survivors have taken refuge in the forests
and mountains, where they are feeding On
herbs and roots. Hunger and cold nave
begun to make great ravages among them
In the name OF humanity ana Christianity
save us.
legation has received the following tele-
gram from the sublime porte. under to-
days date: The Armensans OF kalb
tSitijs) having pretended that their be-
l0ngings were taken away during the yar.-
Gus disorders by the Mussulmans, the inn
perial authorities ordered an investiSa-
tion, which established the falsity of this
assertion. as well as the fact that these
very Armenians had left 90 the care OF
Their MusSulman nelghbOrs all they pos
ssssed. The latter have since restored the
goods to their owners. The disorders Of
last month. II IS clea-iy shown never had
a general character. as neither the Greeks
nor the Armenian Catholics had reason
to suffer from the Mussulmans. whose
only object was u take revenge on the
planned aggressions of the Armenian riot
ers."
Constantinople. Dec. 12-The British gun
boat Dr.ad and the Italian gunhoat Ar
chimedes passed through the Straits OF
Dardanelies today.
London. Dee i3.-The Standards s Con-
stantinople correspondent SAYS. A spon-
taneous movement is on foot in the palace
10 consider a scheme Of reform. especially
for Macedonia. with a view To preventing
further diplomatic pressure.
The correspondent of the Times at Con-
stantinople says: The ambassadors are
now devoting themselves TO compiling a
general table OF the massacres and other
matters from the consular reports
London. Dec. l2-The Chronicle an
nounces this morning that Herbert Glad
stone started yesterday for Athens.
whence he will make an extended tour
through Turkey