The morning times., 1896-01-04

eastern Part OF Proyince OF siyass
onstantinopie, Dec s2l THE United
Press is able 10 furnish The following WHICH
gives the situation in The various provinces
! of Turkey and also an account OF wi.ae is
being dcne for the relief OF the destitute
| Armenians:
| In tie city OF Trebizond DR.. Parmalee
and Mr.. Crawford are issuing food and
clothing TO about 5000 destitute persons
Many refugees have come in from the region
or baiburt and Erzingan. About 3,OOO
| OF these have crossed over inJo Russia,
where they can be secure from the swoid at
! least. Tie foreign steamship companies
take them without charg ge to Batouni. 7"'
| In tie city OF EzeIoum the ~retched peo-
! pie have been held in hopes OF receiving
back their pluDdered gcoCs for some time
! since the niassacre, only 10 be disappointed.
Nothing OF any value is 10 lie iound. OF
course. money and Jewels and gCods from
the shops have disappeared entirely.
Not tent or pSTt oI OGseiiOid furniture
is recovered and what has been recovered
is the refuse, SO broken and damaged as 10
be oil little Use. Tie villages o; The pro-
vince are SO stripped that abort half the
population IS destitute. IN sa-.1-r
ISLAMIsM AND FOOD.
In Erzingan thousands OF peoplc-nen.
women aud children, wander the streets
IN hunger and misery The offer rs CON
s,antiy held before them that III ihey win
become Mohanmedans they will be I'D
from the bounty OF the sultan. The most
terrible suffering exists throughout the
district.
The villages OF Pakarich, Aboushdah.
Hassan, Gvar, Arniedan, Gnssna, khrua-
kef. Zimara, Pingian, Arver and others
have been piliaged. Many houses have
been demolished, many bufnest.- and the
people have not 50 much as rug to sleep
on nor rag to Use for cover Many
people are wandering i'll the mountains
without food
Hardy village LEFT in the province OF
Bills escaped pIliage- The suffering is
colossal. There is Immediate need OF aid
on large scale to prevent famine that
must sweep away the survivors.
In the BuuianiS district of this province
Ia thirty-eight village. have Been sacked
\ frghtful famine threatens the SURVIVORS,
and the Suffering is rendered intense by
the fan or srow aud the onset Of winter.
AS many as $4,000 refugees have poured
into Van, and are there house.ess- ard
without food. The robbers have gathered
up the whoie food supply the country
districts and aided by The officials of the
country districts are holding it to fCrCe
n rise in prices from-.tne. misery of The
people and the benevolence OF the aid
fund. Unless aid is freely Offered the
larger part of the survivors will die CT
starvation. Ia fact some deaths from eS-
posus snd starvation have already oc-
Cured.
BRIGAND MIHs ALI AT WORK. -
The whole district OF Sivas is given
over L. Understandable misery, aud il i'm
mediate relief is not sent famine will de-
siroy those who have escaped the mas
sa cres. l-
TIE southeastern part of the province
was devastated by the celebrated brigand,
Minis Ali. who held n his hands an order
from the gOvernor-geueral OF The province
to rob tie A rmcnian villages.
How he did this wofk may be judged
from the description given by a Turk of
I he state OF tie vfilage Of Artuva. between
Siyas and Tocat. This man says that first
he sheep and cattle were taken and re-
moved 10 the brigand's villages, lest some
should be killed in ;he general devastation.
Then the horde of marauders came back
and killed, piilaged aud destroyed what
they Could not carry off. The people of
ArioVa. said The Turk. have nu clothes.
Neither men uUr women have escaped the
-rufiians. who stripped The clothing from
their bodies.
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partly covering their bodies with rags and
pieces of SackiIg which the pluudcrers
left behind.
Province uf Diarbekir: Cutterbul. uppo-
site DiarheIir, was sacked Noven her 3 by
Kur,is from The region Jrsi Joining Sa sshysS
The sky Christian houses We're plundersd
and burned.
Kardbash. three miles from Cuuerbul.
was sacked the same day and burned.
AbouL a hundred hupses were destroyed
and several Christians Killed.
Arabkir was pil'a eed hy the Mosiein~in
habitants. aided by Z Tailhle of Mohamme
dams from outside the CITY. The first at
tuck on the Christians was made N0yenber
6. Unhindered by the government officials
murdcrous Lions eontinGea their work dur
ing ten fesrfuI days.
Abolt 2.09O Christians. of ali denomina
lions, We're killed and every Christian
house in the city was stripped OF all its
contents. Over 1000 houses were burned,
some OF them palaces of rich Armenians,
which contained from twenty to thirty
rooms.
The hungry and half-naked survivors of
4 population OF $4,000, are crowded into
less than geo houses. Some of these houses
contain thirty families without food fuel
or bedding.
The government issues about a quarter of
u pound OF bread a day to each person, and
the people add to this by gathering from
among the ruins kernels of wheat and other
provisions which were not entirely burned
in the ooaflu graf ton. ..---.- Il
No milk is Cbtainabie for the little chill
dren. ana they sicken and die on this diet.
Sert, between Bitlis and Mardiceh, has
been sacked, but the only details so far
received is a telegram from an officer of
one Of the churches there, who says:
People hungry and naked; in want of
daily bread Hep u.s.
In the above villages and in many other
places in the province, which have not
been heard from, clothes and food for these
plnndcred thousands win be imperatively
needed. INV
Cruel East Indian Woman.