The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-02-21
PLANS FOR RELIEF
CLARA Barton Presented at the
Porte at Constantinople.
FURTHER ASSURANCE OF PROTECTION

The Many Obstacles in the Way OF the
Suggested Scheme for ColOnizing the
Suffering Armenians I'm Our
Southern States.
Washington, Feb. 19.-A cable dis
patch received at the state department.
last evening from Alex. w. Terrell,
United States minister to Turkey,
dated at Para, the European quarter
of Constantinople, contained the in.
telligence that the efforts of Miss Clara
Barton, president of American Ma
tional Red Cross society, to obtain the
permission of the Turkish government
to distribute relief to the suffering
Armenians, had been successful. The
decision of the sublime porte not to
allow relief measures to be extended
by the Red Cross as an organization or
by it's officers as such, made it doubt
full whether Miss Barton and her party
would succeed in their object. 1t ap-
pears from Mr.. Terrell's dispatch that
Miss Barton had been presented by the
minister at the porte and had received
renewed assurances of full protection
and aid for her agents in dispensing
charity. Her assistants, says Mr.. Ter
rell, go at once to the interior Miss
Barton's headquarters will be at Para.
The dispatch ends with these words:
''The door is thus opened wide for
charity"
Southern Colonization Scheme Difficulties.
Baltimore, Feb. 19.-The Southern
States Magazine recently addressed
letter to NJ. III. Gulesian, secretary of
the United Friends of Armenia, asking
| if, i'll view of the conditions of the Ar
menians, of the high char0cter of
these people and their great success as
farmers, it would not be possible to un-
dertale some plan of relief by coloniz-
| ing many thousands of them in such
portions of the south as in climate and
productions, are very similar to Ar
menia. In reply, Mr.. Gulesian says:
81 sincerely wish it were possible, or
could be made possible to bring large
numbers of Armenian farmers for colo
nization purposes in the south. 1t
would seem to our people like paradise;
but as to the feasibility of the plan,
am afraid there are great many OBJ
stacles. In the first, place, it is almost
certain that the Turk would not let
them out. In the second place, the
people of Armenia have not only been
butchered but the survivors have been
stripped of everything, and the richest
farmers of six months ago are to-day
depending on charity. They have alb
solutely nothing left, not even the
wherewithal to buy bread to keep them
from starving, and thousands are to-
day starving and perishing. | have
letters before me from all the different
parts of Armenia showing how COM
plete the ruination of the people
has been by the barbarous
Turk. In the third place, if
the privilege of coming to
this country were granted, the roads
are unsafe, as the Turks are blocking
every channel, and they would be too
dangerous to travel. The only way
the Armenians could safely travel the
road would be to have an escort of
foreigners. Of course, all these things
might be made possible by sufficiently
strong popular interest throughout the
country, as the sympathy of the coun-
try is already greatly drawn towards
Armenians. If enough money could be
raised to send ship to the Mediter-
ranean and Black seas to receive those
families that might come from the in
terror, if the way could only be made
clear, am sure a great many would
come Such movement would surely
draw the attention of the civilized
world and might bring sufficient pres
| lfon To ind
help the people to leave the country"
Murad Bay Sentenced to Death.
London, Feb ia dispatch to the
Central News from Constant tinople says
that the surrender of arms by the
Armenians who for months held the
city of Zeitoun against the Turks has
been completed. The dispatch adds
that Murad Bay, late imperial commits
sioner of the Ottoman debt, who fled
for his life from Constantinople about
the time s'Littie" Said Pasha sought
refuge at the British embassy and who
has sought refuge in Egypt, has been
sentenced to death for issuing attacks
on the sultan. Murad Bay, after is
suing pamphlet in Paris against the
sultan, took up his residence in Cairo,
there to direct the Arabic press Gam
paign against the Ottoman ruler. Tho
sultan recently demanded that the
Egyptian government turn Murad Bay
over to him for punishment. Tho
government consulted with Lord
Cromer, the British diplomatic Ggent
at Cairo, and then refused to extradits
a man who, the government said, was
| crriltv of no crime against cnraBnOn 1MW.
Another Theatre for Ntxez 8 ZimmermaD
Philadelphia, Feb. 10-Messrs. Nix
on & Zimmerman have closed a con-
tract with John W. Albaugh, proprie-
tor of the new Lafayette square opera
house. Washington, by which that
magnificent theatre passes under their
! management.