The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-12-12
doris have recommended their COM
munities to leave the city and that
gives us hope that we will be safe"

doris have recommended their COM
munities to leave the city and that
gives us hope that we will be SAFE"
Massncres Continue.
COnstantinople, Dec. 1O.-Authen
details have now been received Of the
Sivas massacres. They show that the
slaughter began on Nov. ~ and con-.
tinued for O week following. 1t Isl
known that 1000 Armenians and ten
Turks were killed before there was a
cessation of the bloody work.
The manner OF the outbreak Is de-
scribed as follows: Suddenly, at noon,
as If by preconcerted signal, the
Turkish soldiers and police, the Cir
cassians, and even the laborers and
Moslem women and children rushed
into the market under command Of the
officers. All We're armed, the laborers
with tools or clubs or anything they
could secure that could be used as an
offensive weapon.
They attacked and looted the Ar
menian shops and pursued with re-
lentless fury the occupants, who
seemed helpless with surprise at the
suddenness Of the onslaught. Many
merchants and clerks were killed and
their bodies stripped
As the importing business was al
most exclusively in the hands Of the
Armenians, financial disaster must
overtake Sivas when the fury of the
storm Of blood and greed has sub
sided A high official, in position to
know, declares that the massacres
were the deliberate act Of the sultan's
vengeance for having been compelled
to grant the reforms in Armenia de-
manded by the powers.
1t is asserted that the kama kan Of
Guerrin, where there are 5000 Ar
menians, telegraphed to the vail Of
Sivas: "Yau can rest assured that
there is not an Armenian left in
Guerrin. They resisted the butchers
and they suffered the worst for it,
The expulsion and removal of the
Armenians from Constantinople and
from the Vilayets continues by whole
SALE All the Armenian monastaries
in the vicinity of Erzingjan have been
pillaged. The massacre there occurred
after the Armenians had been dis
armed and Seokki Pasha had faithful
~ promised to protect them.
At the village of Pasuan, near En-
zingjan, the Kurds and Turks attacked
a crowd Of Armenians who had taken
killed forty Of them. Altogether 400
were killed and 800 were wounded in
the Birmingham district.
Boston, Mass, Dec. ia CORES
pondent in Constantinople in a letter
received here to-day describes the con-
dition under which, in his opinion, re-
lief for the oppressed Armenians must
be distributed, advising either an indie
pendent American commission for the
work or one acting in conjunction with
an English organization of similar
character.
ITO insure effectual work." the
writer says, ut will be essential for
the United States government to take
under official protection the men who
distribute. Otherwise it will not be
permitted by Turkey A relief COM
mission should be organized in Ameri-
ca on an independent basis to have at
least four superintendent of distri-
button, one at Alexandria to go to
Aintab, Marash and Oorfa, reaching
the case also Of the needy in the
Taurus mountains; another at Trebi-
zond and Erzeroum, with a view to
reaching the regions Of Bitlis and
Van; and a third at Sassoun for the
regions from Marsovan to Harpoot.
The fourth should 90 to Diarbekir and
Mardln. There will undoubtedly be a
large amount Of aid sent from Eng
land. Probably it will be we'll for the
American commission to make some
alliance with those in England in or
der to cover the ground without lap
ping. There is need Of the greatest
haste In getting some effective relief
into the field. The people will be dy-
Ing of exposure and starvation very
soon. Moreover, the Turks are trying
by every means in their power to
force the survivors to become Mo-
hammedans. They are Offering aid on
these conditions in some places. and
In others are picking up the desolate
WIDOWS and orphans and simply tax.
ing possession Of them in order to
make them Mohammedons without
any will of the captives."
General War Predicted.
The correspondent, in referring to
the general situation. says:
The 1nertness Of Russia is due to
England and not to her own willing
ness to act. This state of affairs gives
no cheering prospect for immediate
and lasting improvement in Turkey,
and it seems now as if a European
war over the Acknowledgement of the
empire was imminent. If such
war it will probably be between Rus
STA, France and Germany on the one
side. and England, Italy and Austria
on the other side. But it is thought.
however, that Russia may make an
alliance with Turkey on the basis Of
a sort of vassalship of the new sultan
(WhoeVer he may be) to the car.
. Meanwhile, SO long as the powers
merely threaten the sultan with fleets,
unaccompanied with means for climb
, ing mountains, he simply chuckles and
proceeds with his cruelties and out
RACES, while suavely declaring all the
time that neither cruelty nor outrages
exist save in the imagination of the
English Liberals and of the American
missionaries.
Word has been received here from
Bardeza, Western Turkey, to the eff
feet that more that 10000 people have
been butchered in Turkey in spite of
the assertions Of the sultan and his
. advisors that there have been only
slight disturbances. These facts come
from reliable correspondent, who
adds:
These people have been fendishly