The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-02-28

foreign residents. The soldiery took
part in the piilage, and did nothing to
prevent the butchery, though not
doing large part Of the latter
themselves. The following day they
began TO repress the populace, and
up to the present have succeeded IN
preventing any further general out
break: but the poor Christians are
terror strickeU, aud all of them await
their ..rulh in their houses or the
churches Yesterday there was te-
termined attempt upon the part OF a
large mot To attack the Christian part
OF the citv, but the military puzzled
it without much difficulty. Th.- took
place upon the southern size, and,
while the sOl,liery were mo-ily with
drawn TO that SHE, Two or three large
houses were looted upon the northern
side i'm one district. A letter comes
from Marash telling of another ter
rible massacre there and three Chris
tian quarters burned. This is the
third one that has occurred there dur.
ing the last mo1th, and this time was
pprpetrated by the soldiery, with the
apparent approval of the government.
The theological seminary and stu
dents boarding house We're plumber
ed, the former burned, aud two of the
students shot, one fatally. Our mis-
SQUARES there have so far ESCAPED,
but We feel very anxious about them,
and, in fact, the whole situation is n
very grave one. There seems to be a
well laid plan upon the part of the
Turk &c put the Armenian race down
so thoroughly that it will not think OF
anything but how to get its daily
bread for many a long year to come.
The distress throughout our mission is
going to be terrible before spring.
Here is the winter upon these thou
sands who have been driven out of
their homes aud had them plunde red
or burned.
December Sth.-Tbe time drags on
with no great change in the situation.
There has been no further outbreak
since my last writing aud the strain
seems somewhat relaxed, but the
Christians dare not stir out of their
houses yet and all business is at a
standstill. Reports of similar or worse
butchery come to us from Harpoot
Diabekir, Iwala;ia, Leverek and
Givum, besides many other places.
The best information L can get leads
me TO place the killed here at not less
than 400. TIE attack was wholly un-
provoked, and the fact that not more
than ten to twelve Mo>lems were kill
ed shows for itself thar il was mere
butchery. Women and girls were not
molested except in few cases where
ffN..xr nj Pr. f,f.a 20 slaf. l.
bands or sons, but boys were killed as
ruthlessly as the men. 1t has been a
terrible time, aud have not written
the horrible details that you must
have before you to realize the fiendish
brutality of the affair. We caunot
feel any sense of security until there
has been radical change in the poll
tics of the empire, though the settle
ment of the Zeiloon rebellion would
remove one great menace 10 our
safety. One thing which has made it
particularly hard to bear has been the
i'm Disability of communication with
the outside world, either to learn what
Is gong on there or to acguaint others
with the state OF things here. Our
letters have been intercepted, papers
not allowed to reach us, kilograms not
sent us, and when we have attempted
to send special messengers they have
been arrested and treated as spies,
imprisoned and, we think, in two
cases, killed. We have felt that the
everlasting arms were underneath us
through it all, and it has been a great
pleasure to me personally to be able
10 help the sick and wounded What
is to become OF the thousands of home
less widows aud orphans during the
coming winter? Auitab has escaped
with little los as compared with
many places, snd still in Auitab there
are 81 lrnsL 1000 people who must be
wholly supported by charity during
the coming winter. At Mara,h the
number must be more than five times
"a ,rge, and | estimate tb- number
a. homeless and starving Christians
i, the empire as over 100000 todsy.
Do what you can TO help raise fluids
i'r these poor people.
To be OF much use, funds must be in
hand to be distributed during Janu-
arv. Actual starvation cannot be ,Ie-
layrd beyond that time by the efforts
Of tne people themselves, although
they share all they have with each
other. Thsnk the Lord anew that
you live in free merica.