The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-21
NERICA COLD TO ARMENIANS.
.,cuT OF ENTRY REFUSED TO 1874
At NEW YORK.

r.o Head of the Board of Inquiry
believed That the Turkish Afro
lilies Had Nothing to Do With
rheir Coming and Looks Upon
Them as Ordinary RefuEees-A SAL
..stion Army Leader Says the OPP
,osite Is the Case
Vow York, Oct. 2O.-The board of in
INV at Ellis Island to-day finished the
mutation of the 167 Armenians who ar
...sd on the OLDHAM on Saturday. At the
INCLUSION of the inquiry DR.. Senner
nod that only thirteen of the remaining
80 Armenians had been admitted, and
.tis number with the twenty admitted on
Monday. makes a total of only thirty-
,braa out of the original party of 167, who
,o,o been able to convince the immigra-
ian authorities that they would not pc
.,,oe A charge on the country. One hun
/ ,-el and thirty-four will, therefore, be
..,,r+ed unless bonds are filed by their
s,snds guaranteeing their maintenance
for one year.
one thing was covered with mystery,
and was constantly commented on by the
members of the board, the peculiar fact
that in almost every case the migrant
had lust about So. Each man asserted thas
bs Maid his passage, and almost ali said
they had not been helped by any one.
r5e head of the board, Col. Ellis, believes
that the Turkish atrocities have nothing
+, do with the coming of these Armenians,
Init that they are ordinary refugees using
the nassacres as an explanation.
COL Holland of the Salvation army, on
the other hand, says they were all fleeing
from the massacres. and were taken in
by the consuls and sent on any vessel ar
hand. and were afterwards collected by
Miss Frances Willard and Lady Somerset
AT Marseiles. The aid of the English
branch of the army was then asked ami
obtained TO the extent of promising to take
care Of them here
The position of the board of inquiry is
that it must follow the law, and pay no
attention to the offers of any organza-
ton. unless those offers are put into legal
form in the shape of bonds. An Armenian
minister appeared at the island this after
noon prepared to take the responsibility
for several who had been his pupils, and
leased without the necessity of an appeal
10 the Secretary of the Treasury.
Col Holland said an appeal would be
made by the Salvation Army in behalf of
all the rejected immigrants, and any nee
essary security given, as the army could
easily find them employment. The OBJ
lection of some residents of Ramsay to
the plan of the army to place them there
is not very important, as the Salvation
s,aN. 1aI
A stopping place for them. They are then
to be distributed throughout the country.
Four of the Armenians, who have been
released, related their experiences. Hagop
Arslanian, an Armenian merchant, from
Constantinople, said. Il was in church
at the time of the massacre. There was
not riot, but was carefully planned. /
saw women and children, my friends, and
relatives killed, and their dismembered
bodies thrown from windows into the
streets. Men were struck down in the
streets with clubs, in the hands of the
Turks and their bodies were horribly
mutilated. l escaped because a French
lady took my arm and claimed that ]
was Frenchman. We will not go back
Rather than do that we will go down to
the sea and drown ourselves
The others related similar experiences
F. D. Greene, secretary of the National
Armenian Relief Society read extracts
from letter, which stated that the en-
bassies all agree that over 5000 persons
had been killed and that the massacre
were not due to anarchy. but to organized
murder and robbery of all kinds.
Mr. Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army
sald there was no intention of keeping the
refugees at Ramsay, n. j., permanently
and slightly criticised the deputation from
ramsey, who had protested against the
landing of the party.