The herald., 1896-01-15
Though Forbidden by the Turk
ish Authorities
WILL NOT BE ABANDONED
The Government Is Not Called Upon
for Action
But Assistance of the Missionaries Is Avail.
able and the Red Cross Society Has
Treaty Rights
Associated Pr SIS Special Wire.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-In an interview
today the Turkish minister said regarding
the newspaper statement that the he'd
Cross society had decided not to pay any
attention to the communication until it is
officially transmitted to it by the Turkish
government or The Turkish minister, "As
the Red Cross or any of its representatives
never visited this legation, it is clear and
logical that this legation has nothing to
communicate to the said society. This le-
gaion sent the communication to the
press because it is the public that the Red
Cross took into its confidence. But, nat
uraliy. will always be ready aud pleased
to give the Rad Cross society any explana-
ton it may think proper TO ask fo..
This whole question is q question OF
right. Suppose for one moment that your
own Indians were to revolt againss your
legitimate authority. Suppose that you
put down their revolt and suppose that in
some foreign country some foreigners were
your race and your religion. Not satisfied
with that, suppose that these foreigners,
on the strength of such false accusations,
were 10 raise money and bring it for dis
tribution through their own channels, how
ever respectable the latter may be, to the
government. Would that money. raised
on hatred and denunciation, would even a
moral aid from foreigners be welcome to
this great country of yours, however well
come it might be, for obvious reasons, to
your IndiaLs?"
NO ACTION CALLED FOR.
WASHINGTON, Jan. I4.-Senator Cullom,
who is member of the senate committee
on foreign relations and chairman of the
subcommittee on Armenian affairs, said
today that he did not see what action the
United States could take in the matter Of
the exclusion of the Red Cross society from
Turkey. Any government. he said, has
the right to exclude any and all persons
from it's territory.
At the Red Cross headquarters today the
statement was made that inasmuch as the
Turkish government has signified it's pur-
pose to exclude the society or any other
agent of relief, it now remains for the ma
tional Armenian relief committee to take
the next step, if it is desired to carry for
ward the work.
RELIANCE ON MISSIONARIES
NEW YORK, Jan, l4.-Speaker Trask,
president of the National Armenian Relief
committee, was asked last night what the
committee will do now that its agent, the
Red Cross Society, is barred from entering
Armenia.
81 am very much surprised at this order
but l do not believe the sultan will in
terfere with the work being doue by the
American missionaries. The committee
sent considerable sums to Dr. Grace Kim
ball st Van and will! probably send ell it
gets to the missionaries since the Red
Cross is shut out. The committee will
decide whether this course is best under
the circumstances.
CALI. FOR MEETING
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-Mr. r. S.
Thradin, who has been one of the active
movers regarding relief of the Armenians,
has issued call for all the Christian Or
ganizations in the United States to send
delegates to the national Christian conven-
ton at Washington, to meet on Saturday,
February %, 1896, "to consider the de-
plorable condition of Armenia, to devise
ways and means for the amelioration
thereof. and to consider whether to
menorialize congress to take effective
measures to abate the nuisance now
rampant on the Bosphorus."
TREATY RIGHTS
CHICAGO, Jan. 14.-Mrs. S. E. Gross, a
member of the Red Cross society, was not
worried when informed of the announce
mont made last night by the Turkish gov
ernment that it would not permit any dis
society of money collected abroad. She
said:
"The Turkish government has a treaty
with the Red Cross society which will give
Miss Barton free entrance to Armenia,
and protection while she is at work.
This was the reason the missionaries
asked to have her sent there. Miss Barton
will positively sail upon the day set.
The Red Cross does not go into forlorn
hopes, and this movement will be carried
through"
AID Is ASKED
WORCESTER, Mass, Jan. 14.-Dispatches
have been sent from this city today to
Queen Victoria and President Cleveland,
asking them TO put stop to the massacres
in Armenia and to aid the Red Cross in
aifording relief to the sufferers. These
dispatches are signed, 1.-TWO hundred Ar
menian residents of Worcester, Mass"