Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-06-10
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NOOSH COMMISSION
,,n,,,p Delegates Disguised A.ih
ths Turkish Members
,arlR METHODS TOO DISHONEST
..,of HISTORIAN Christians In the
Maintain. Of kurdi'ian Probably
gu the Program.

aN
,',,lrpoits received indicate that Tue
u I,,s cammission closet on Friday, &c
~. work Of the European dele
81 /, concerned. They were COM
va to tell tue rurslsh delegates
n, NAV could have nothing more to
lin them. From tho fret the a!ti-
~, the Turkish delegates has been
.,,,,bly and Increasingly dlshone,t.
ding to tho statements Of those
'.,.,,,d In the workings OF tho COM
.,',,on the representatives OF the su.-
-~1,ye not manifested honor, truth
lDs,nsy, They nave male M Efforts
,.,sfmine tho cause Of the oulrsgos
IT,. nuIufe between ihu Turkish
- The European commission was
',-,,I by the refusal Of the Iurkt, on
.,.iy iafclcal grounds, TO hear itn'
F,,,st Witnossea on matters pertaining
".,.,ions at Issue. IL was evident
~, The Turks were biliaid the tissue
= al,ehoods that they have thrown
,.,spI the situation IN Armenia
I,all 10 broken down.
ANOTHER MASSACRE.
The following report IL inside by q
,,slal correspondent VI tbs Associated
p,,... dated DIoulih, Persia, May T.
N, turkish government, II IN claimed,
NJ iu,, taken tho preliminary steps IN
81 N "a
Victorian Christians in the u1ouniains
4 Kufdlslau. II 10 inserted that tho
,t,tp ment hos given orders u sistvO
4. INDEPENDENT tribes OF HISTORIANS
The mountain region Immediately
,,l Of uawar, which may be des'
sfbsI a. lying about midway between
Nlul aud Lake Van, about atty miles
Tu, Of the Persian frontier. The OF.
IN, II IL stat, 4, SIC that 10 food sup
M, u any kind snall DO allowed t.
,,,,i the territory VI the independent
eits,, aud measures are said TO have
leu iaken 10 enforce these orders TO
" lsliet
Tal, again IL apparently taken rs
uah. Of compelling tho independent
Ute, 10 submit 10 the rurgish HuthoTi-
he and to pay the taxes emandod by
h government, hnd IN regarded ~
~ hft serious attempt to Turks
Ars made 10 extOTt taxes from the i1-
gsudenl tribes.
From The earliest timeS In tho hit
~ y. the Ottoman empire these
gis have teen independent OF Turk.
hgle. They have paid no tnxts
r!lhey have acknowledged no al.
tgAnee 10 the Turkish government,
hsptesent course Of tho government
Inken In some quarters MS an indi.
aisn that the sultan has sol on foot u
g,lemAuc persecution OF Christians
Iall paris OF the empire. The sultan
IA plenty u opportunity for knowing
nat the independent HISTORIANS are
10 poor 10 pay taxes, ana that many
! them make a living by going down
ITO the villages Of their less wrecked.
y poof fellow c0uutfymen aud beg
gpg
Ihese poor creatures, according 10
ht story, are 10 10 starved because
ny will not share with tho sultan Oi
Igiiey the scraps OF bread, the refuse
Tao mtalt, anu the odds anu ends
shleh they nave obtained by begging.
It,li homes arc ~ wildnuts Vi
a'altAln peaks aud narrow rocky val
hi. where nothing will grow except
iIlN OF broom corn here aud there ~
At eievices on the rocks OF the noun
hhLds, ana few slooks OF Inillet IN
: ei'uAl tquate yard OF soil IN Tia,
nlsys.
u Il difficult to forecast tho probabl,
ieall Of tue starvation OF this race o
sigafs should tho report turn out (
We9neel. Driven desperate by hun
~, Tue people viii enueayor TO oOiaii
"a ifon CAVIAR aud other outside
s'llci, hud there will DO fights witt
We Turkish troops, the yillagrs vii
Hlbly be attacked, aud some OF tn
WEIGHED people will 10 killed, and no
A.l can pTophesy where the peIseou
u.h will end.
nave Just returned from Tapil
;s'ney To this Kurdish mountains 70
Nlaipn,e VI investigating the Tepol
h fourteen villages hAd been al
aettl anu devastated by n raid q
A.'ai last week. Tho original Iumo
Ah that the kurds had mastacTet
ally Christians anu had carried Of
.l'n anu glIls 10 this mountains. ~
WHllng Jay and night 10 IeACn III
wv Of the raid, ! Mt length arrived o
~'aelSultVet valley, which lies, III
sstoN0m OF u boat, beneath mout
~ covered from base to summit W ~
sug' uhbioGon vxpanses OF snow,
W llls valley that the raid too
fAle Hound that band OF Kurl
~. KY lhe mountains had iniued iald-J
, ,l,'een villages In this valley, hut "a
,s s wac directed against tneT Kurdl
~ not tRairst ChTifliaur. TheI
lew HISTORIAN Christians livlu
ns valley but they were not InI
"'u 10 any way.
Mhla fald was not RAGS or n n
,,ous falu, Il will probably have lit,I
,INlesl outside OF the valley. 1 regT,
sny lhal Mo. Patton, tho British ugI
sss'htlal In rebrz, Persia, In yer
~ W ulhlavor with the gentleme
r, N.Y. Me conducting the Armenia
u,uuohaTy movements. In spite
,'rsao' 'bat Mr.. Patton has been 90
My evidence VI tho SafsOun an
Es,h musssore for tue use Of II
I'"au government, the Armenian
IA H. ulVh MN ssaspy. They may 4
bv M' length Of cong him TOLL
Va" ny e'slng OF this Caravan routes
,, ,a Us rendered more acute tho I'll
S,,,g from famine In the uovastate
nlst' :, i hsnr Van. The only hope
N d. o "a
N o.. Destitute settlers
uns,,"9 CITY, Mo-, June S,-Ft
IA be,,nhe teIo'ts Of destitullon au
3. Othbn,s,.a among the settlers ia paTIs
ia uolnh havB TDRchsd tha n,,btt