New-York tribune., 1896-01-15
COUNTING UP THE SLAIN
THE LONDON TIMES'S" DETAILS OF
THE ARMENIAN MASSACREs.
ow THE MURDERS WERE coMMIrTED-povERrY

AND MISERY OF THE SURVIVORS
Constan;inop.e correspondence of The London Time.
accurate detailed statement can be given as vet
tivav E , vents ny or the last two months Compara-
woFd, especially OF the destruction of the villages:
put put the ACCOUNTS which have come in from Consuls
oI1ciaI niI turks are sufficiently full justify tho
occurrd 70 The esebi abe. M yew w Of what has
ne', cose OF ms letter are incomplete but there is
pose Of the Turks eaa anS TqSt y Is the Pu
II ls seeking 20 attain its emo.
MI rhe occasion Of these massacres the pressure
six vayets and In part OF the Aleppo viayet in
accordance with the Treaty of Berlin. The terri
tory to which these reforms were to be applied lies
10 ,n the sa. east of line Drawn from SAMSON the
nn b Tas TO- nuy these reforms and carry
reiuchg the Christian population in this rritory
e a. az in5snifcant SET minority without wea or in
First, by killing in cold blood. a certain number
OF the leading Armenans in every town.
Armenians in the towns thus deprivng those left
alive at once of their property and their Of
Third, by destroying. the Christian villages and
as that OF the towns 10 the alternative II death by
starvation or of embracing Mahometanism.
h ny bH h w9k Of
and death under the form Of Turkish law.
exclusively to the massacres in the towns as made
known by rasmenary elesrams and msndacoqs
Of the massacres a, Constantinople. Trebizond and
ErZeroum Up TO the present time there have been
such massacres in thirty principal towns. More or
less details have come from almost all or them,
sven so R Re h story Of
for all The killing has been done by the soldiers,
In N oms ses S sss by Rars or
Armenians' have been unarmed and have made no
resistance: though in most places few Turks have
selves or by chance shots OF their own people. In
one case the Kuris after finishing the Asmenians,
The official reports published By the Turks repre-
sent that r every town the Armenians ms have H pro,
the MOSQUES or the streets bit n very place place
been found to be either without any foundation
or based upoh insignificant events when occurred
In general the massacre has begun a signal
given by the authorities. and has lasted certain
only to the Moslems in the town. bu, also TO those
of the neghboring villages In many cases the time
the noon prayers. According to the Sunni law. the
killing and plunder Of nhdes is as much an act OF
ful details the Christians have got wind Of what
for projection. and received the most solemn as,
surance that they had nothing 10 fear. The signal
given every Armenian TO be found in the shop,
clubs were used. but the desire for p.under gener-
ally outran the desire to XIII ana gave many be r
stripping and the muiilation Of the dead ood,ss ts
cias impressed companies OF Armenians 20 colect
the bodies and bury them In trenches with scaht
The Armenians IN the town were merchants. shop.
reduce them hopeless poverty py wholesale
plunder Whether killed or not; their shops ana
houses have been literally cleaned OUT, and great
care has been taken 10 destroy all account books
and evidence Of debt. In many cases the shops ana
houses have been burnt They have not only lost
their property. but also their business their tooIs.
all their means of earning their daily bread rhe
work has been done more thoroughly IN some places
than in Others but in general II has left the greater
part of the Armenian population in ab1ect poverty,
If no, starving. In Erzeroun, where only 800 were
killed there were according TO the statement OF the
Val 5000 left without the means TO buy loaf or
hread-that is half the Armenian population OF the
town According the Turkish official census there
were before the massacres l1s.WO Armenians living
in the larger towns in these vilayets. Certainly
half Of them left alive are in Starving condition.
the rest in poverty The chief sufferers are women
and chdren-the families Of those killed.
low estimate Of those either killed or now in
state OF starvation is half the agricultural popula
ZION OF these vllayets 27500V. according to Turkish
statistics two-thirds of the starving being women
and children. , . .., .,,. ..
the special attention of the world. The dead are
dead / do not to discuss the question here upon
whose head their blood may rest but the massacres
and the plunder and the starvation and the forced
conversions st going on; And these things are
~ modern times lies idle in the Aegean. and the six
great Powers OF Europe are looking on In helpless
imbecuy. Is there no courage or manhood LETT IN
our modern civilization!
p,-r p VIE w Of THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES.