The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-14
WAITING FOR THE POWERS
The Only Hope for Unhappy Chris
tians in Turkey.
AosLENs WITHOUT MERCY
They Plan and Execute Dutcheries with
Unparalleled Crucly-The Powers
Must Interfere to Save the Ex.
tcrminatiOn OF Christians.

| Boston, Nov. 13.-Reliable CORE
spondence received in Boston from
| Constantinople states that the attitude
Of the Moslems in Marash at the end
Of october was so menacing THAT the
heads Of the Christian sects called to-
gether on the governor asking special
measures Of protection. On Friday the
governor having paid no attention &c
| this request. the Moslems attacked the
| Christians, wounding quite a number
| and causing a general flight of all
parties to their homes. The heads of
the Christian sects then made q new
! petition for protection, this time in
writing, and addressed separately to
the governor and the commander of the
troops. Still nothing was done to check
the Moslem and a general assault was
made on the Christian quarter and a
large number of Christians were killed
and wounded.
The Armenian bishop and the Ar
menian Catholic bishop and the Prot
estant pastors sent O collective tele-
gram saying that the slaughter was
still going on and begging for some
thing to be done to stop it. The Turks
say that the reason Of the massacre is
the assassination of four police by the
people Of Zeitoun. twenty miles from
Marash. The worst Of 1t is that the
sultan and pashas all conside rthis crime
in another place as sufficient to justify
the massacre in Marash.
There Is not q doubt that the mas
sacre was ordered from here. The tone
Of the remark among the staff at the
Sultan's palace has been all along
that the Armenians shall be killed be-
fore the reforms can be executed. Moth
ing has been done in any place to pun
ish the criminals. but in all the places
where the massacres have occurred
great numbers Of Armenians have been
arrested as though those who escaped
had committed crime in escaping. You
must not believe one of the stories that
are sent out by the Turks about con-
flicts at these places where massacres
occur. No conflict occurs. There may
be In some cases q reason In the con-
duct of Armenians elsewhere for in
dignation. but in every case so far
when a massacre occurs 1t Is a cold
blooded, deliberate affair, gotten up
separately from any alleged cause.
The Powers Must Act.
Unless the powers intervene shortly
in a way that will compel the Sultan
to order the massacres to cease there
Is no knowing where the matter will
end. The most Infamous falsehoods as
to attacks of Armenians upon Turkish
women and children are being dill
gently circulated in the city and in the
country in order to fire the hearts of the
Moslems and the government is open
ly arming or favoring the arming Of the
Moslem populace, while searching Ar
menians, to take away even their jack
knives lest some Moslem should be hurt
when the massacre Is undertaken.
The effervescence here against the
Sultan Is taking more form. There was
some revolt Of the Albanian bodyguard
of the Sultan and n fight Of some i'm.
portance in the palace grounds. A num-
ber of the Moslem patriotic committee
attempted to kill the minister Of ma
rine. They had previously ordered him
to resign on pain of death. It Is said
that the minister was only wounded,
but 1t Is very hard to get accurate in
formation Of any of these things.
The situation Is going to be worse be-
fore 1t is better The feeling Is that an
American man-of-war should be sent to
Beyrout, one to Smyrna, leaving at
Alexandretta the Marblehead, now
there, one to this city, and, II possible,
one to the Black Sea coast.
Washington. Nov. 13.-Secretary Oh
ney was oloseted with President Cleve-
land for an hour this morning. On his
return from the white house he stated
to the United Press representative that
he had received no dispatch from Min
lister Terrell confirmatory Of the star
tling story transmitted from Constanti-
nOple to the Cologne Gazette in regard
to the massacre Of missionaries in Tur-
key.
Berlin. Nov. 13.-A dispatch to the
ent In Constantinople says that all of
the Christian and Armenian teachers
between Erzoum and Trebizond have
been massacred.