Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-04-10
'TELEGRAPHIC.
A RUSSIAN BARGAIN.
The Significance Of The Expulsion OIL
Missionaries from Turkey
EXPLAINED IN COSsrASrlSOPLE.
The CEtr's Government Has Got Pro.
ttcloraie over Arm MIA aud Wants
10 Russiablze IT,

CoNsTAETiHOPLE, via Sons, April
e.-rntfu are several reasons giveD for
the movement Of oIpelllDg Catholic
and Protestant missionaries from Asi.
attic Turkey, but the nfialr may be
iummcu ~ IN the statement thatthete
IL no doubt that Russia And Turkey are
alarmed nj the effect " the work Of
missionaries IN Armenia and else
where, aud that It has PRACTICAL, been
decided that they ato to be- expelled
uuder some excuse or other In order ~
make way for priests VI tho Russian
church. This IL believed to be tue
bssis Of the understanding Tor secret
truaty) arrived ut between Russia Snd
Turkey when the II IA OF tue powers
hal assembled IN tho Bay VI rRlUnica
anu the question u ootfciug TutEry
by q display Of naval strength OtiOt,
COnttaLunUplc had been almost Jt.
cldsd upon. According to the uXpltnp.
tlons FURNISHED hero Of tue suitau's
pfstent attitude towards tho Nilsson.
nri,t, the threatening attitude OF tht
powers At that time threw Turkey 90
tho arms Of Russia, AuI the
latter, after debating her teimsi
caused the breakup Of the Eu.
ropenu combine against the Iurklsu
empire, by refusing 10 take lart ll any
such denomination ana by threaten.
log TO protect fhs sultan by force at
aims II necessary. Hence tho assFm.
bling OF tue Russisn Black sua iquad-
ron In roadintss Ter immediate action,
guG the gathering u RIsslHn army
r0TpH on the frontiers a Ashuy
Turkey. Russis, 10 H. now nisrftCi,
CIcvttIy tOsk advantage Of toe dtHIUfA.
ton 0f the sultan ~ Obtaiu virtual
piUtectufits over Anne 10, but aucu
ttrp openly taken would Ia MI
probability have led 10 serious trouble.
Therefore II was decided 70 begin the
RussIauiEing u Asistic Turkey b.
gu!ung tid Of the Protestant aud Cath.
uuc misSiOnATi'H aud TO substilutU
priests " tho Russian church. a
plausible ptetrxt, however, mad 10 be
found Tor suCn an imp rant move.
meni, and It vas agreed that tile wOfk
OF the mitslunbfi,s should bc pointed
~ "a being Of a ditquiuting nAiutu aui
hs likely 10 iucUo tue Aimuuiaus 10
rebellion. This was 10 Be followed by
closely watching tue most active o
the mltsiOLAtiet, htd To prepare
the ETOuEdwOtk for charges against
them OF encouraging the Al.
ineniAns % revolt sgains. tue
sultar's rule. During the last atfies
" massactta In Armenia II was cin.
unuAlIy claimed that the uprisings
were the work Of the Armenian Tuv,-
luuunafy agents. SsCrsly, however,
since tue collapse Of tue proposed nnvn'
demons TAtiOns ~ a Tesuit Of the secret
agreement ATiivsu nj between Turkey
Anu Rutpla, II hiss been "whispeSed"
the right q isrters that the missionaries
were ut Tue back OF the TeyOiutlO airy
n. entp, that 20 tue missiOnsrits could
10 traced the real cause Of the uprising
and that uuOu them should iall the
blsms Tor the blood he'd ~ the Turas
In "suppro sing disJrders.'
KSArr THE FIRST VICTIM.
Finally II was decided to begin with
the Rev. NJ. Knapp, who has probably
been the most zcAi,us VI all the active
wuFFets la tho cause OF Christlanity IN
AsAuC Turkey, Hnl he was tventu-
ally open y charged with melting the
Afmeniaus OF Biills TO revolt anu was %
have been tried by the local court there
on tho charge Of ugh treason. Psupo
ZANZIBAR vi. u lho mbluNut o. tho LURES
have not tue slightest doubt that the
Armenian missionary would have been
found guilty Rud tuat alleged IT1ui
would have been furnished not only OF
his guit, but " the quit OF tue mis-.
sionRTles as u body. Here II was that
the Quilted States minis Ur intc'irred
ana that the hand OF tho Tux wss
stayed Tor while. But, as now
clearly shown, MIR. Knapp Is being
expelled nom Asiatic iufsey, and mo-
body here doubts that tuis II Tho Net
Of a series OF such ,XpulsionP, winch
will end In driving all Of the Amefl-
can, Brush and french missionaries
out Of Turkey.
ENGLIsH PROrEh1s.
LONDON, Aprll o. The newspapers
hers III give ptumiueuce to Tcporis q