The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-29
The American Theological Semi.
nary Burned and Two
Students Shot.
RAIDS OF THE FIERCE KURDS.
Now the Powers May Soon Make a
Naval Demonstration IN the
BoSphoruS.

LONDON, Eng, Nov. 28.-Tne CORE.
spondent of the United Press IN CONSTANT
NOBLE telegraphs under date of November
81 that a second terrible massacre has &C.
Cured at Marash, and that the houses there
have been pillaged without regard to
whom their occupants might be.
1t reported that thousands were killed
and many hundreds wounded. The
American Theological Seminary was plum
dered and burned, and two of the students
OF that institution were shot, one being
fatally wounded. Hotels and boarding
houses were also plundered. The Christians
at Marash ana in that vicinity, thousands
of whom are destitute, have appealed for
aid.
A dispatch received in Constantinople
from Aleppo under Mondays date says
an outbreak is apprehended at Van, and
reliable kilograms from other sources say
that outbreaks continue with the purpose
OF wiping out the Armenians.
1t is impossible to rely for aid from Sas
SCUM, these advices state, the relief work
there having ceased. The Kurds are
again attacking the people under the be-
lief that they are acting under orders from
the Government.
NJ. Nelidoff, the Russian EN- bassador to
Turkey, has had an audience with the Sui
tan, during which he warned him that if
serious disturbances should occur at Con-
stantinople the foreign fleets would pene-
trate the Dardanelles. The Sultan admit
ted TO NJ. Nelidoff that the powers had a
right to the admission of second guard
ship to the Bosphorus, but renewed his re-
quest that they should not insist upon that
right. He urged that the promised re-
forms were progressing, and that the ap'
proach of an era of reform was shown by
the appointment of six inspecting Judges,
of whom three were Christians. Despite
the assurances of the Sultan to the con-
trary, the arrests of Armenians in Constan-
tinople have been renewed, though there
is no sign of any uprising or resistance to
the laws on the part of the Armenians in
ConstantinopIe. Thousands of them, how
ever, are reported to have been frightened
into conversion to Moslemism.
The United Press representative in Con-
stantinople relegraphs under yesterdays
dale that news has been received from
Zeitoun that on November Is force OF
10000 Armenians under Russo Armenian
leader captured the fort occupied by Turk
ish troops. In the attack upon the fort
dynamite was used by the Armenians with
great effect. Twenty thousand Turkish
troops are said to be advancing upon lei
toun from all sides, it being the intention,
it is understood, to rae the place to the
ground.
Rumors are in circulation in CONSTANT
nople that dreadful massacre occurred at
Aintab on November II. The Government
has prohibited all Geographic communica-
ton with that place and it is impossible TO
get any information in regard to the re-
ported massacre.
CONSTANTINOPLE, TURKEY, Nov. 90.
Despite the assurance given to Sir Philip
Currie, the British ambassador, by Tewfik
Pasha the Turkish Minister of Foreign
Affairs, that each power will be permitted
to send an additional guardship to the
Bosphorus, the Sultan has not yet granted
the requisite permits for their entrance
through the Dardanelles. The hesitancy
of the Sultan in the matter, it is under
stood, is due to his fear that the move
ment of the powers to increase the number
of their guardships in the BOsphorus is
merely designed to mask an Interior dem
onstration of the naval force.
1t is thought, however, that the Sultan
Will yield to the demands of the powers in
view of the unanimous pressure they are
bringing upon him; otherwise 1t IS prob
able that the powers will send gunboats
into the Bosphorus without waiting any
hitting them to enter.